Posted by Toni Peters | May 12, 2011 | Economy
Colombian coffee production dropped by 33% in April, with 523,000 132 lb sacks produced, compared to the previous month’s 779,000, according to information recieved by Bloomberg. The statement, coming from Colombia’s...
Read MorePosted by Toni Peters | May 12, 2011 | Economy
Colombia’s largest cement company Argos has bought several cement plants in Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina for $760 million, reported local media Thursday. Argos Cements bought the plants from the French company...
Read MorePosted by Toni Peters | May 12, 2011 | Tourism
President Juan Manuel Santos stated that a historic 23% rise in the number of air passengers in Colombia in 2010 reflects “a good phase for the economy.” At the First Colombian Air Transport Forum in Bogota, the...
Read MorePosted by Toni Peters | May 12, 2011 | Economy
Colombia’s richest man and president of business consortium Aval Group’s board of directors has said that now is not the time for capital controls. Luis Carlos Sarmiento Angulo, worth $1.1 billion according to Forbes...
Read MorePosted by Toni Peters | May 12, 2011 | News
A leader of a group of peasants reclaiming land they were forced to leave by illegal armed groups, was assassinated in northern Colombia said the human rights ombudsman Wednesday. “[Martha] Gaibao, the spokesperson in a...
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