Shakira: Latin America suffers from colonial history
Pop princess Shakira shares her views on economic underdevelopment, blaming the problems of Latin America on its long history of colonialism and war. The Colombian star told UK newspaper the…
Pop princess Shakira shares her views on economic underdevelopment, blaming the problems of Latin America on its long history of colonialism and war. The Colombian star told UK newspaper the…
A homeless man died in Cali on Monday after eating a poisoned chicken, bringing the total number of recent deaths of the city’s street people by poisoning to four. According…
Cali authorities on Tuesday expressed concern about an increase in child labor during the holiday season. According to the Committe for the Eradication of Child Labor and Protection of Working…
The human rights situation for children in Colombia is the worst in Latin America, the president of the the International Tribunal for Children affected by War and Poverty said Tuesday.…
“The primary necessity is for Colombia to acknowledge that it has a conflict,” declared the Bogota Mayor Wednesday at a forum on challenges facing Colombia’s cities. During the forum, held…
The Colombian National Statistics Department (DANE) will conduct a study to determine changes in socio-economic conditions in urban centers around the country as part of a government plan to make…
Colombia on Tuesday launched the Grameen Aval Colombia Corporation – a bank dedicated to the country’s poorest communities. The new initiative was begun in June this year and formed through…
A Colombian school-bus driver, living in New York City, has been chosen from 9,000 potential candidates as one of ten CNN’s Heroes. Jorge Muñoz, who immigrated to the United States…
Hunger is Colombia is expanding faster than in the poorest parts of Africa, United Nations statistics show. Almost half of the Colombian population is suffering some degree of hunger. According…