Posted by Joey O'Gorman | Sep 21, 2012 | War and peace
The chairman of the peace committee of the House of Representatives has called for Colombia’s second largest guerrilla group ELN to join the peace talks between the FARC and the government next month. President of the...
Read MorePosted by Joey O'Gorman | Sep 20, 2012 | Culture
The film which will represent Colombia in the 2013 Oscars will be El Cartel de las Sapos (The Cartel of the Snitches) announced the Colombian academy Thursday. The board of directors of the Colombian Academy of Motion Picture...
Read MorePosted by Joey O'Gorman | Sep 20, 2012 | Economy
Colombia’s economy grew 4.9% in the second quarter of this year compared to the same period of 2011, said the state statistics agency Dane on Thursday. The country’s gross domestic product (GDP) grew 1.6% from April...
Read MorePosted by Joey O'Gorman | Sep 20, 2012 | Economy
Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos again proposed to slash three zeros from the country’s peso. “I consider the initiative important to maintain the strength of our currency,” said the president in...
Read MorePosted by Joey O'Gorman | Sep 20, 2012 | Lite
You might not have been aware but Colombia is exporting happiness, and not in the form of drugs, coffee or flowers, but actual smile-on-your-face happiness. The founder Mario Chamorro of the Make it Happy Foundation, a social...
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