3 miners die in small mine collapse near northern Colombia
Three gold miners die due to a mine shaft collapse in the northern department of Antioquia, reported local media Tuesday. Two miners were also wounded, but according to the local…
Three gold miners die due to a mine shaft collapse in the northern department of Antioquia, reported local media Tuesday. Two miners were also wounded, but according to the local…
Minister of Information Technology and Telecommunication, Diego Molando, announced Friday that by the end of August he will sign an agreement with Brazil to assure that phones stolen in Colombia…
Illegal miners could be attracted to the fragile “paramo” high-land moors where large mining companies are not allowed to operate, analysts fear. Colombia, which has tens of thousands of legal…
Colombia’s National Federation of Palm Oil Growers (Fedepalma) called for the government to exercise greater control in their sector, in order to prevent illicit drug money being invested in the…
Colombia’s Prosecutor General opened investigations into eleven suspected cases of electoral irregularities that occured during the nation’s first round presidential elections. The cases, reported by both officials and citizens, pertain…
Colombia’s taxation agency DIAN reports that around $66 million worth of contraband was seized coming into Colombia in the first trimester of 2010, a 9.8% increase on the same period in…
Colombia’s Partido de la U announced in a press release Thursday that presidential campaign adviser to candidate Juan Manuel Santos, Venezuelan spin doctor J.J. Rendon, is not officially employed by the…
Venezuelan spin doctor J.J. Rendon, the controversial new campaign adviser to Partido de la U’s presidential candidate Juan Manuel Santos, does not have a work visa and is working illegally…
Representatives of Colombia’s indigenous Wiwa community, based in the Sierra Nevada mountain range, met last weekend to discuss the increasing risk posed by illegal armed groups active in the area,…