Discover Colombia News provides this syndication from the original story that was posted on September 27, 2010 on the Wall Street Journal website. LIMA (Dow Jones)–Chilean and Colombian investors are showing a keen appetite for Peru’s smaller and cheaper stock market, finding good value in Lima compared with their more expensive home markets in Santiago and Bogota, where [...]
According to the president of Peru’s stock exchange, Roberto Hoyle, the South America countries of Peru, Chile and Colombia will integrate their stock exchanges later this year. The anticipated event is set to begin on November 22, 2010 and will form the largest stock exchange in South America. The combined equity trading of these three emergin markets [...]
A landslide that killed as many as 30 people or more was caught on film by an engineer on Monday, September 27th in the department of Antioquia. The hope for survivors is dismall as rain soaked mountains are a constant threat every year during the rainy season. President of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos will visit visit the [...]
Discover Colombia News provides this syndication from the original story that was posted on September 26, 2010 on the Open Democracy website. When Juan Manuel Santos in his inauguration speech said that, “all the land of those displaced by violence, regardless of whose hands it might be in today, will be returned to its rightful owner”, many assumed [...]
President Juan Manuel Santos said that the goal for the next four years is to triple the number of visitors to Colombia’s national parks. “We need the support of the private sector to build and equip access to trails and tourist facilities,” he said. “We will promote a new Tourism Policy of Nature in all its [...]
The President of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos Calderón reported that the National Government’s goal over the next four years is to create 250 thousand new jobs in the tourism sector. This was announced Monday during the celebration of Tourism, which took place at the Marriot Hotel in Bogota, Colombia. President Santos said that to stimulate the growth of [...]
Discover Colombia News provides this syndication from the original story that was posted on September 27, 2010 on the CNN News website. (CNN) – Colombia’s attorney general removed and disqualified Sen. Piedad Cordoba from the Congress for 18 years for having “promoted and collaborated” with the FARC guerrillas, the attorney general’s office said in a statement. Attorney General [...]
Discover Colombia News provides this syndication from the original story that was posted on September 25, 2010 on the BBC News website. Experts in Colombia are trying to crack the codes to 15 computers and almost 100 memory sticks belonging to Colombia’s largest rebel group. They were seized on Thursday after a massive raid on a Farc jungle [...]
Discover Colombia News provides this syndication from the original story that was posted on September 26, 2010 in the Los Angeles Times. Billions of U.S. dollars later, Colombia gets the upper hand in battle on rebels, drugs By CHRIS KRAUL Reporting from Puerto Leguizamo, Colombia– Ten years after the U.S. began pouring billons of dollars into a largely [...]
Discover Colombia News provides this syndication from the original story that was posted on September 25, 2010. UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 24 (Xinhua) — Colombia on Friday declared its desire to have a seat on the UN Security Council for the period 2011-2012, representing Latin America and the Caribbean. “I make explicit today, before this Assembly, my [...]
