The organizations that released suspicious opinion polls in Antioquia and Quindio are part of an alleged “black campaigning” for the upcoming local elections, according to El Espectador. Suspicions were raised when…
Colombia offers “unlimited” possibilities for ecotourism, the country’s president, Juan Manuel Santos, said Saturday. Santos made the announcement to emphasize the benefits ecotourism will bring to the region. His address…
President Juan Manuel Santos assured Sunday that the Colombian government has prohibited mining in 47 coffee growing municipalities following the recommendations of UNESCO that considers the coffee region a World…
Colombia elected the 2011 beauty queens — Miss Coffee, Miss Bambuco and Miss Folklore — for three of the country’s annual beauty pageants over the holiday weekend, local media reported.…
Daniela Calderon Novoa was chosen Tuesday to represent the coffee producing department of Quindio in Colombia’s national beauty pageant. Newly crowned Ms. Quindio told local newspaper La Cronica del Quindio…
A southern coffee zone is emerging in the departments of Huila, Nariño, and Cauca to rival the traditional coffee growing departments of Risaralda, Quindio and Caldas, El Espectador reported Tuesday.…
Colombian soccer team Deportes Quindio faces the possibility of a 30-day suspension after failing to pay their players. The director of sports-governing body Coldeportes Nacional, Jairo Clopatofsky, on Tuesday told…
An accountant for the prosecutor’s office in the Quindio department was murdered by two gunmen on a motorcycle. Clara Alicia Giraldo was shot while driving her car in the west-central…
The Cocora Valley, high in the Andes and surrounded by mountain peaks, was named a wildlife sanctuary in 1985 by then-President Belisario Betancur, to prevent exploitation of the wax palm,…