“The objective is to take advantage of the current exchange rate,” Zuluaga said in his announcement as the peso explores nine-year highs. Colombian international debt spreads tightened after the announcement…
Simón Trinidad, whose real name is Ricardo Palmera, is already serving a 60-year prison sentence on an unrelated hostage-taking charge, but the U.S. had hoped to convict him on cocaine…
The archives contained important data to help victims of paramilitaries claim reparation according to the Justice and Peace law, a law trying to demobilize paramilitaries, make them confess their crimes…
Thanks to alliances with both demobilized paramilitaries, the FARC and even members of Colombia’s security forces, El Loco now is the most powerful and at the same time Colombia’s most…
According to journalist Dario Arizmendi, who says he spent the weekend with the writer in Mexico, the book will be about love and is expected to be published in August…
During the weekend heavy rains affected villages and towns in the departments of Bolivar, Antioquia, Huila, Narino and Risaralda, said Disaster Prevention and Response Office director Luz Amanda Pullido. The…
Emerson also presented legislation to Parliament to enact a free trade pact with the European Free Trade Association, comprised of Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein. The EFTA accord, completed last…
Luisa Fernanda Manosalva, District Project Coordinator of Child labour exploitation in Bogotá, says that the most difficult thing is to convince parents that do work for children is a crime:…
The local commander, Gen. Paulino Coronado, says the five were killed Friday in a rural area of Tibu, a hotly contested coca-growing region near the Venezuelan border.Coronado said Saturday his…