Posted by Sarah Kinosian | May 11, 2012 | Economy
Oil and gas giant the China Petroleum Company (CNPC) is in talks with the Colombian government to increase oil exploration and production in the country, including cooperation on the proposed Venezuela–Colombia pipeline. CNPC’s...
Read MorePosted by Sarah Kinosian | May 11, 2012 | Bogota
The annual BogotAfro week celebrates the artistic, intellectual and social contributions of Afro-Colombians to the country. The festival will host events throughout Bogota featuring the music, food, art, and folklore of the...
Read MorePosted by Sarah Kinosian | May 10, 2012 | Lite
Sara Corrales, Colombia’s most “talented” socialite, hits the cover of 15 Minutes in a barely there bikini for May’s issue of the gossip magazine. The Colombian gossip magazine quoted vallanato singer Silvestre Dangond as...
Read MorePosted by Sarah Kinosian | May 10, 2012 | News
Colombia’s National Tax Office (DIAN) has seized the personal assets and bank accounts of Colombian vallenato singer Diomedes Diaz. Diaz has allegedly failed to file income taxes in recent years and hopes to resolve this problem...
Read MorePosted by Sarah Kinosian | May 10, 2012 | News
The Colombian House of Representatives Wednesday passed the first draft of a bill that seeks to legalize illicit crops. The initiative calls for the decriminalization of growing plants such as coca, marijuana and opium poppies...
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