Posted by Toni Peters | Apr 8, 2011 | News
The Inspector General’s Office asked the Supreme Court to extradite drug-trafficker Walid Makled to the U.S., not Venezuela, Caracol Radio reported Friday. Inspector General Alejandro Ordoñez said that based on...
Read MorePosted by Toni Peters | Apr 8, 2011 | Economy
Allus and Contax, two of the leading businesses in South America in the areas of call centers and business process outsourcing (BPO), will join forces to form a strategic regional partnership, El Espectador reported Thursday....
Read MorePosted by Toni Peters | Apr 8, 2011 | News
The FARC reportedly attacked a military checkpoint in a town in the southwest Colombian department of Cauca, the town’s third attack in six weeks, Caracol Radio reported Friday. Community members in the town of Caloto...
Read MorePosted by Toni Peters | Apr 7, 2011 | News
The information in the Chiquita internal memos, revealing that the multinational paid guerrilla and paramilitary groups money in return for security services and not extortion money as it had previously claimed, is nothing new,...
Read MorePosted by Toni Peters | Apr 7, 2011 | News
Documents from Chiquita Brands International have contradicted the banana company’s earlier claims that it was extorted by Colombian paramilitary and guerrilla groups, instead showing they saw the illegal armed groups as...
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