An attack attributed to Colombia’s largest rebel group FARC derailed on Thursday a Cerrejon coal transporter and caused severe damage to the railway in the northern La Guajira department. According…
President Juan Manuel Santos on Monday urged Colombians not to be manipulated and used in strikes that have been occurring throughout the country. “There is a deliberate action to promote…
Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos said on Monday that the problem of security had yet to be resolved in the country. “There are many problems and the road ahead is very…
Parties representing coal mining company Cerrejon and workers’ union Sintracarbon on Monday signed a three year labour agreement, bringing to an end a 32 day long strike at the largest…
Colombia’s labour sector has begun the week with ongoing strikes at the National University and coal mining company Cerrejon while new protests have been announced in the rice farming and…
Union workers and Cerrejon LLC, Colombia’s largest coal miner, on Monday reportedly reached a tenuous agreement. “After arduous negotiations…the Sintracarbon (union) commission and Cerrejon have built agreements to govern the…
The export ban on Drummond, Colombia’s second-largest exporter of coal, was lifted Friday. Drummond shipping operations were suspended on February 6 after the Alabama-based company dumped tons of coal into…
Colombia’s largest rebel group, the FARC, on Wednesday expressed solidarity with the thousands of coffee growers currently on strike while criticizing the government’s neoliberal economic model for exasperating the problem. “Although…
Colombia’s largest coal miner, Cerrejon, said Sunday that rebels have broken into the mine’s premises in the north of the country and burned down several of the companies’ trucks. “In…