Posted by Joey O'Gorman | Oct 18, 2012 | War and peace
Excluding those responsible for human rights abuses, Colombia’s Congress promises that members of the FARC, the group responsible for thousands of deaths, kidnappings, forced disappearances and forced displacements, will...
Read MorePosted by Joey O'Gorman | Oct 18, 2012 | Economy
In what has turned into a schoolboy spat about who has the bigger economy, Argentina’s finance minister has posted a flurry of angry tweets aimed at Colombia’s former finance minister Juan Carlos Echeverry. Echeverry...
Read MorePosted by Joey O'Gorman | Oct 18, 2012 | War and peace
The U.S. wants to be “part of the solution” for peace in Colombia, said Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Roberta Jacobson on Thursday. The assistant secretary tweeted the remark as a press...
Read MorePosted by Joey O'Gorman | Oct 18, 2012 | Economy
Colombia is now looking to join in what has been called “the global shale boom” as exploration has been expanded in areas once under the control of the guerrillas, and increased crude production causes oil stocks to...
Read MorePosted by Joey O'Gorman | Oct 17, 2012 | Economy
Faced with the hardships of Colombia’s coffee business, many young farmers are now choosing to try their luck in cities rather than struggle in their father’s footsteps on the country’s coffee plantations. Not...
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