Posted by Toni Peters | Mar 26, 2011 | Economy
The registration and public sale of Avianca shares was authorized by the Financial Supervisory Authority, El Espectador reported Friday. One hundred million preferential, no-voting-rights shares are to be issued and the income...
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The Supreme Court Friday authorized the extradition of an alleged Venezuelan drug trafficker but is leaving the decision of whether to send him to his home country or the United States up to President Juan Manuel Santos. Walid...
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287 Colombian judicial officers have been assassinated and hundreds more were subjected to violence and intimidation over the past 20 years, the association of judicial employees said Friday. Over the past two decades, 750...
Read MorePosted by Toni Peters | Mar 25, 2011 | Amazon
Residents of the indigenous village of Nazareth in the Colombian Amazon have banned tourists from entering their community, newspaper The Guardian reported Friday. The village, which is a 20 minute boat ride from the capital of...
Read MorePosted by Toni Peters | Mar 25, 2011 | News
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos will give a lecture at Brown University, in Providence, Rhode Island, according the university’s website. The Colombian Head of State will give the 84th Stephen A Ogden Jr. lecture on...
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