Posted by Joey O'Gorman | Apr 11, 2013 | News
United States President Barack Obama announced his 2014 Budget Wednesday with a $9.5 million reduction in spending on the battle against the Colombian drug trade. Obama called on U.S. Congress to earmark $319 million to combat...
Read MorePosted by Joey O'Gorman | Apr 2, 2013 | News
Locked in a 32-year legal battle over possibly the most valuable shipwreck ever discovered, the Colombian government Friday conceded that a United States salvage company is entitled to a 50% share. Lawyers representing Colombia...
Read MorePosted by Joey O'Gorman | Apr 2, 2013 | News
Bogota Mayor Gustavo Petro on Monday said that the treatment of illicit drug addiction through the substitution of “minor impact drugs” such as marijuana and cocaine will be based on “scientific...
Read MorePosted by Joey O'Gorman | Apr 1, 2013 | Economy
Colombia’s half-point interest rate reduction in March may be the last, said finance minister Mauricio Cardenas Monday. According to Cardenas the country, which now has the lowest rates in Latin America, “has now...
Read MorePosted by Joey O'Gorman | Apr 1, 2013 | News
Colombia’s army condemned the alleged executions of three girls who attempted to defect from the FARC. A defected guerrilla known by the alias of “Carlos” reportedly said that the teenagers had tried to escape...
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