Colombia’s taxi drivers on strike, furious over arrival of ride-share company Uber
Fifteen thousand taxis drivers in Colombia’s second largest city, Medellin, went on strike...
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Taxi drivers block streets in Bogota to protest lack of security
Taxi drivers blocked streets in Bogota on Sunday to protest a recent spur in violence targeting drivers, local media reported. In the past two weeks, five taxi drivers have been killed in Colombia’s capital city. The most...
Colombian taxi driver returns $8,000 to passenger
A Colombian taxi driver was rewarded on Monday after returning $8,000 to a passenger in Cali. The driver, Humberto Semanate, had noticed that a portfolio belonging to a forgetful, foreign female passenger had been left in his...
Honest Colombian taxi driver returns $6000
A taxi driver in the northern Colombian city of Cartagena returned an envelope containing more than $6000 to its rightful owner after finding it in his cab Sunday. Antonio Perez Babylonia, the cab driver in question, dropped off...
Unlucky escape for buffalo in Bogota
Two buffalo had a brief escape from a Bogota slaughterhouse but neither could avoid the inevitable, reported El Tiempo Tuesday. The bovine beasts escaped from San Martin abattoir in the west of the Colombian capital and charged...
