Posted by Toni Peters | Nov 30, 2011 | Economy
The unemployment rate in Colombia for October 2011 was 9%, down from 10.2% for the same month in 2010, according to a report published Wednesday by Colombia’s national statistics agency DANE The employment rate grew to...
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The Colombian government has definitively “closed the door” to the possibility of future demobilized fighters being able to participate in politics. The Interior Minister German Vargas Lleras said the proposed...
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Colombian business leaders lobbied Congress to pass 2005 legislation leading to the demobilization of paramilitary organization AUC, a demobilized member told Caracol Radio Tuesday. “Gonzalo,” the political chief for...
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A court ordered the Colombian state Tuesday to pay damages to the family of a sociologist murdered in an intelligence agency conspiracy. The Administrative Court of the Atlantico department ordered that DAS, the now defunct...
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Former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe said Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez secretly invited him to capture FARC Secretariat member “Ivan Marquez,” who is suspected to be on Venezuelan territory. In an four-point...
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