Colombia’s ambassador to Peru resigned Wednesday after the Prosecutor General’s Office ordered his arrest for alleged ties to paramilitary groups. Jorge Visbal Martelo Hannibal has been accused of working with…
The Colombia Stock Exchange, BVC, is to change its timetable to correspond with that of the New York Stock Exchange. The stock exchange is changing its opening hours in order…
Colombia and Peru have come together to fight organized crime in their border region, local media reported Thursday. Colombian Defense Minister, Juan Carlos Pinzon and his counterpart in Peru, Alberto…
Colombia’s largest private oil producer Pacific Rubiales and the state-run petroleum company Ecopetrol were the most traded companies in the Integrated Latin American Market, MILA, in 2011. Chilean and Peruvian…
Colombia is well prepared to deal with the repercussions of the financial crisis in Europe, said a manager at Barclays Capital in an interview with financial publication Portafolio Thursday. Alejandro…
The United States has fixed Colombia’s coca production figures, website NarcoLeaks reported Wednesday. According to NarcoLeaks, a group of Italian journalists and researchers, U.S. official statistics list total Colombian cocaine production as…
Anti-narcotics police from Colombia and Peru will synchronize manual eradication of illicit crops, such as coca, in border zones between the neighboring countries in December. General Luis Perez Alvaran, the anti-narcotics…
The Colombian government has authorized the extradition of six Colombian nationals to foreign countries, where they are wanted for various crimes. President Juan Manuel Santos confirmed that five of the…
Colombia is no longer considered the world’s largest producer of pure cocaine, having been surpassed by Peru, according to the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) of the United States. The information…