Tag: Colombia
ColombiaColombia aims to become Latam third largest economy by 2015
Colombia aims to be Latin America's third largest economy after Brazil and Mexico by 2015, said the country's trade minister this week during a business conference in Madrid.
Venezuela has highest murder rate of South America, worse than Colombia
President Hugo Chavez Venezuela is on track to set a new record for murders and to remain South America's most violent country, according to data released by a crime watchdog. The Venezuela Violence Monitor (OVV) said this week that 19 336 people had been murdered in 2011, an average of 53 per day in a country of 29 million.
Santander sells Colombia’s affiliate to a Chilean bank
Banco Santander SA said late Tuesday it has agreed to sell all of its units in Colombia, including Banco Santander Colombia, to Chilean CorpBanca as part of its efforts to collect fund to comply with European regulators.
Colombia takes to the streets to demand “Freedom and NO more FARC”
Thousands of Colombians on Tuesday joined demonstrations demanding that the country's oldest guerrilla group, the FARC, free all its hostages, ten days after rebels murdered four men who had been held for more than a decade.The FARC responded with a promise, posted on its webpage, to release hostages.
Chilean carrier launches fourth affiliate Lan Colombia
LAN Airlines, Chile’s flag carrier made the official launching of its fourth affiliate under the name of Lan Colombia, becoming the second largest airline in the country with 22 domestic destinations, including Cartagena, Cali and Medellín.
Venezuela and Colombia agree to boost trade by reducing tariffs on 3.500 items
Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez and his visiting Colombian counterpart Juan Manuel Santos subscribed Monday a trade understanding covering 3.500 items, based on the most exchanged products in recent years, and agreed on an ambitious energy projects that include neighbouring Ecuador and Panama.
Venezuela catches major Colombian drug dealer and is ready to hand him to US
Colombian drug kingpin with a 5 million dollars US price tag on his head has been arrested in Venezuela and is to be extradited to the United States to face trafficking charges, officials said.
The only survivor of the FARC executions tells how he managed to escape
When the shooting started, Police sergeant Luis Erazo scrambled into jungle canopy, the only escape from death as his Colombian guerrilla captors hurled grenades at him. Four fellow hostages were shot dead by the FARC.
Steven to FARC: “sirs you have cut my wings; you destroyed my hopes”
Steven is the 13 year old boy of Colombian Army Sergeant Major Jose Libio Martinez who was never able to meet his father executed last Saturday by the FARC kidnappers who shot him in the head when surrounded by Colombian forces in the jungle.
Surrounded by the Colombian Army, FARC kills four hostages and one escapes
Colombia's FARC rebels have executed four hostages but a fifth hostage was found alive after escaping his captors, the defense minister said Saturday. The hostages had been held at a FARC encampment in the remote Solano region of southern Colombia.
