Posted by Zach Edling | Nov 12, 2012 | News
A bomb explosion near a police station in southwest Colombia injured 26 people Monday. A van, laden with explosives and bananas, blew up near a police station in Suarez, a municipality in north the north of the Cauca department...
Read MorePosted by Zach Edling | Nov 12, 2012 | News
Residents of a small village just north of Medellin lynched four people suspected of killing a fellow villager Sunday. The murder of Norberto de Jesus Bedoya sparked an outrage throughout the small village in the San Jeronimo...
Read MorePosted by Zach Edling | Nov 9, 2012 | Economy
Colombia’s competitiveness rating has declined despite a rising GDP, according to experts. A recent report from the Private Competitiveness Council (CPC), a non-profit organization that analyzes the economic challenges...
Read MorePosted by Zach Edling | Nov 8, 2012 | Economy
Colombia’s peso spiked after government officials on Tuesday announced that Bancolombia will take over bond trading of InterBolsa, Colombia’s largest, failed brokerage firm, Bloomberg news reported. News that...
Read MorePosted by Zach Edling | Nov 8, 2012 | News
An Ombudsman official in western Colombia has received a death threat from unknown persons, El Espectador reported Thursday. According to the local newspaper, an official in the Buenaventura Ombudsman’s office received a...
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