Victims of paramilitaries sue Chiquita for $1bn
Nearly 250 Colombians who say they and relatives were victims of violence by Colombian right-wing paramilitaries filed a lawsuit on Wednesday seeking more than $1 billion in damages from the…
Nearly 250 Colombians who say they and relatives were victims of violence by Colombian right-wing paramilitaries filed a lawsuit on Wednesday seeking more than $1 billion in damages from the…
Colombian coffee production dropped 28.5% in the first quarter of 2010 compared with the same period in the previous year, according to the National Federation of Coffee Growers (Fedaracafe). In…
Colombia’s central bank, Banco de la Republica, announced Thursday that the country’s foreign debt rose by more than $7 billion between 2008 and 2009, reported news source CM&. According to…
2.7 million Colombians were unemployed in February 2010, with the national unemployment rate reaching 12.6%, a 0.1% increase from the same month in 2009, Colombia’s national statistics agency DANE reports.…
Colombian Foreign Minister Jaime Bermudez is in Russia to cultivate “strategic” trade relations with the former communist nation. He will meet with his Russian counterpart Serguei Lavrov. “Colombia has identified…
Colombia’s economy grew 0.4 percent in 2009, lifted by a 2.5% increase in GDP in the fourth quarter of the year compared to the same period in 2008, according…
A new survey shows that Bogota has the sixth largest economy of any city in Latin America, reports Portfolio.com. The Colombian capital came in at sixth place (or seventh with…
American unions, particularly the AFL-CIO are delaying the passage of the U.S.-Colombia free trade agreement (FTA) for domestic political reasons, says the president of the U.S. Consumer Electronics Association (CEA).…
The Inter-American Development Bank on Saturday agreed to lend Colombia $844 million to invest in several government programs. According to Colombian Finance Minister Oscar Ivan Zuluaga, the money was approved…