Colombia’s government and farmers suspend strike talks
Colombia’s government and farmers’ representatives have suspended talks that seek to put an end to an ongoing agricultural strike, the country’s agriculture minister announced Tuesday.
Colombia’s government and farmers’ representatives have suspended talks that seek to put an end to an ongoing agricultural strike, the country’s agriculture minister announced Tuesday.
Approaching what could snowball into nation-wide strikes across different industries resembling the disastrous final months of 2013, President Juan Manuel Santos on Monday asked farmers to call off any strikes.
Government claims that Colombia’s largest rebel group, FARC, has infiltrated ongoing national strikes are “inventions,” FARC told national media on Monday.
Colombia’s Agriculture Minister on late Wednesday evening signed an agreement with the country’s millers to ensure an immediate government purchase all rice production within the country, in a bid to…
Colombia’s coffee farmers on Monday announced they will lay down work to demand better conditions in a national agrarian strike — the second within a year — to be held…
Colombian rural leaders prematurely walked out of a protocolary photo shoot with President Juan Manuel Santos on Thursday, leaving the presidential palace wearing bullet proof vests instead of their traditional…
The government’s recent purchase of potatoes, although completing a short-term goal and successfully ending recent strikes, did not satisfy the demands of Colombia’s farmers, according to an agricultural organizer.
Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos said Friday that his government was completing promises made in negotiations with the nation’s farmers and that there was “no reason” for them to talk…
Colombian potato farmers went on strike Tuesday calling on the government to protect the industry from high production costs and new imports.