Posted by Toni Peters | Oct 31, 2011 | Economy
Unemployment in Colombia drops to single digits – 9.7% – for the first time in 10 years said the director of Colombia’s national statistics agency, DANE, local media reported Monday. Director Jorge Bustamante...
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Seventy Canadian companies are contributing to Colombian foreign direct investment, said the Colombian ambassador in Canada. According to financial publication La Republica, the Ambassador, Clemencia Forero Ucros said that...
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Colombia’s top electoral official praises the speed of vote counting, as well as the successful implementation of biometric identification, in regional elections on Sunday. Registrar Carlos Ariel Sanchez told newspaper...
Read MorePosted by Toni Peters | Oct 31, 2011 | News
Drinkable water returns to 70% of the city of Manizales in Colombia’s Coffee Region, after being cut off for 12 days, local media reported Sunday. The water supply was cut after a landslide destroyed the city’s main...
Read MorePosted by Toni Peters | Oct 31, 2011 | News
Seven troops from the leftist rebel group FARC were killed in fighting with Colombian Armed Forces on the day of the local elections, news agency EFE reported Sunday. Army commander General Sergio Mantilla said that in a rural...
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