Posted by Toni Peters | Aug 18, 2011 | News
An aviation instructor and a student pilot were killed when a light aircraft belonging to a pilot training school crashed north of Bogota. At 3:30PM Wednesday, the plane crashed into the property of a country house, eight...
Read MorePosted by Toni Peters | Aug 18, 2011 | News
Three petrol workers, employed by a company contracted by Colombia’s state-run oil enterprise Ecopetrol, were kidnapped by an armed group, Colombian media reported. The kidnapping took place in a rural area of the...
Read MorePosted by Toni Peters | Aug 18, 2011 | News
A lieutenant and a soldier were killed and four soldiers injured by the accidental denotation of a hand grenade in the western Colombian department of Cauca, Colombian media reported Thursday. In addition to the casualties and...
Read MorePosted by Toni Peters | Aug 17, 2011 | Economy
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos invited countries of the region to unite in the face of market failings in a speech at the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), financial publication Portafolio...
Read MorePosted by Toni Peters | Aug 17, 2011 | News
Four police officers were killed and five injured in the southern Colombian department of Nariño, in an attack authorities attribute to the leftist guerrilla group FARC, newspaper El Tiempo reported Wednesday. Authorities said...
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