Add nuns, priests, and religious convents to the long list of complainants embroiled in the InterBolsa financial scandal as multiple religous officials have filed complaints against the collapsed brokerage firm.…
President Juan Manuel Santos has called a meeting Tuesday to develop measures to protect Colombia from possible reverberations of the international economic crisis, according to a presidential press release. The…
Defending employment at all costs is the most important thing in the face of the looming economic crisis, said the president of the national trade federation Fenalco in an interview…
Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos insisted Thursday that the political “coordination” of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) will save the region from the global economic crisis “hurricane.” President…
European Union (E.U.) Ambassador to Colombia Fernando Cardessa said Tuesday that the recent decision by Venezuela to break diplomatic ties with Colombia was an unjustified breach of obligations in the fight against…
Venezuelan academic Gerardo Arellano warned that the government could find itself under heavy scrutiny from the United Nations (U.N.) if allegations that Colombian guerrillas used banks in Venezuela prove to…
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced Monday evening that he will not attend Tuesday’s Mercosur summit in Argentina, despite the fact that the Colombia-Venezuela crisis has been bumped to the top…
Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro welcomed the proposal that the current crisis with Colombia be addressed at the Mercasur trade talks, but added that the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR)…
Although the conflict between the Colombia and Venezuela will not be on the agenda of Monday’s Mercosur summit, Argentine Foreign Minister Hector Timerman said Friday that the heads of state…