Posted by Sarah Kinosian | Jun 8, 2012 | Economy
Colombia’s Minister of Agriculture, Juan Camilo Restrepo warned of a possible coffee sector crisis, reported local media Friday. In the past four years, production has fallen by four million 130lb bags a year. Current...
Read MorePosted by Sarah Kinosian | Jun 8, 2012 | News
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos received his lowest poll numbers yet just as he is about to hit the halfway mark in his presidency. A poll done for news agency CM& indicates that 69% of Colombians approve of the head...
Read MorePosted by Sarah Kinosian | Jun 8, 2012 | News
In the past 24 hours, security forces killed or captured 30 ELN and FARC members, according to Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzon. “In the past 24 hours, in the whole of the country, 30 terrorists of the FARC and ELN have been...
Read MorePosted by Sarah Kinosian | Jun 7, 2012 | News
More than 11,000 Colombian politicians, state officials, businessmen and citizens are facing accusations of being accomplices to paramilitary groups, said research group Verdad Abierta Thursday. “We asked the Prosecutor...
Read MorePosted by Sarah Kinosian | Jun 4, 2012 | News
Authorities captured 15 alleged members of ‘Los Rastrojos,’ Colombia’s largest drug trafficking organization, in the northwestern part of the country, according to Caracol Radio. Forty agents raided a tourist cabin in the...
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