Posted by Rob Edmond | Dec 20, 2012 | News
Colombia’s government expropriated over three million acres in 2012 in accordance with new land restitution laws, local media reported on Thursday. “We have had over [3.45 million acres] restituted [and] we hope to finish...
Read MorePosted by Rob Edmond | Dec 19, 2012 | News
A respected leader of Colombia’s indigenous population was shot and killed in Medellin, local media reported on Wednesday. Ismael Hurtado was slain early Wednesday morning as he exited a taxi. Unknown gunmen riding by on a...
Read MorePosted by Rob Edmond | Dec 19, 2012 | News
Colombia’s Minister of Defense on Wednesday called the Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ [IACHR] condemnation of the 1998 Santo Domingo massacre, “painful.” According to Juan Carlos Pinzon, the...
Read MorePosted by Rob Edmond | Dec 19, 2012 | Economy
One of Colombia’s largest petroleum companies, the state-owned Ecopetrol, will invest $9.5 billion in attempts to dramatically increase oil production in 2013, local media reported Wednesday. According to local media, Ecopetrol...
Read MorePosted by Rob Edmond | Dec 19, 2012 | News
Despite initial setbacks in Bogota’s new trash collection strategy, the city’s mayor on Tuesday said overall results were “satisfactory.” The contracts for the four companies that used to collect trash in...
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