Posted by Toni Peters | Mar 30, 2011 | Economy
State-owned oil company Ecopetrol announced Wednesday that it is on track to produce 1.45 million barrels of oil a day by 2013, Reuters reported. Ecopetrol set itself a target in 2007 of producing 1 million barrels equivalent...
Read MorePosted by Toni Peters | Mar 30, 2011 | Economy
The second Colombian Microfinance Congress will begin Thursday March 31, in Santa Marta, Dinero reported Wednesday. Top executives in the microfinance industry from Colombia, the U.S., Spain, Peru and El Salvador will attend the...
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Government officials in the Risaralda department of western central Colombia have requested a special unit to combat human trafficking, which greatly affects the region, according to a press release from the Risaralda local...
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NASA photos reveal a reduction in green spaces in the Amazon rain forest, indicating an unprecedented drought in 2010, a study published in Spanish newspaper El Pais revealed. “The green of the vegetation, which is a...
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Prosecutor General Viviane Morales is “surprised” by the Defense Ministry’s creation of a new special unit to deal with the investigations of displaced leaders’ murders, newspaper El Tiempo reported...
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