Posted by Victoria Rossi | Jun 22, 2012 | News
Pope Benedict XVI urged Colombia’s Catholic Church to help the country’s criminals, its poor, displaced and kidnapped. He also called for special help to assist victims of the Andean nation’s recent natural...
Read MorePosted by Victoria Rossi | Jun 21, 2012 | Medellin
Medellin will host its 22nd annual International Poetry Festival from June 23-30, this year honoring aboriginal people. Beginning at 4PM on Saturday at the Carlos Vieco open air theater, the festival will feature 70 poets from...
Read MorePosted by Victoria Rossi | Jun 20, 2012 | Medellin
More than 170 groups from at least 15 different musical genres will converge on Medellin and the surrounding towns of Sabaneta and Barbosa Friday and Saturday, June 22 – 23, for the city’s 10th annual international...
Read MorePosted by Victoria Rossi | Jun 20, 2012 | Economy
Starbucks announced Tuesday it has opened a farmer support center in Colombia, its first in South America, as part of the company’s plans to expand in the region. As the world’s third-largest producer of coffee beans...
Read MorePosted by Victoria Rossi | Jun 18, 2012 | News
The Colombian official implicated in the 1989 murder of a presidential candidate will evoke his statute of limation rights when asking the Supreme Court to throw out his case this week, local media reported Monday. The defense...
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