Colombia’s army finds 3 FARC weapons stockpiles
Colombia’s Armed Forces has found three caches of weapons, explosives and supplies believed to belong to the FARC. According to the military’s website, the first haul was discovered in Puerto…
Colombia’s Armed Forces has found three caches of weapons, explosives and supplies believed to belong to the FARC. According to the military’s website, the first haul was discovered in Puerto…
Colombia’s second biggest milk company Alqueria has bought majority shares in other companies for $6.2 million. The Bogota-based milk company is now the majority shareholder of Goasan SAS and G.E. Asociados SAS,…
A central Colombian town claims to have the largest collection of crucifixes in the world, with over 2,700 crosses and Christs. The religious icons are housed in a “Christ Museum”…
Colombia is the seventh most attractive country in the world for mining investments, according to an industry report. Behre Dolbear’s 2012 Ranking of Countries for Mining Investment assesses political risk and…
Bogota’s government secretary resigned Friday, saying he needed to “take a breather,” reported local media. Antonio Navarro Wolf made his resignation official at a City Hall press conference, saying that…
Just 3% of the 239,400 business signed up to Colombia’s Business Formalization and First Job Law are paying social security contributions despite receiving tax discounts, Colombian media reported Friday. The discrepancy…
Colombia’s Mines and Energy Minister said Wednesday a planned oil pipeline from the Pacific Coast to Venezuela’s Caribbean Coast would cost approximately $8 billion. The 2,000 mile oil pipeline, which…
Colombia’s unemployment rate fell to 11.9% in February, according the government statistics agency DANE. The labor market report for February 2012 also showed that in the three months between December…
Microsoft has launched a paperless learning program for 150,000 disadvantaged students from one of Colombia’s biggest cities, newspaper La Republica reported Thursday. The initiative, called live@edu, will allow students from…