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Labor Dept Provides $9 Million in Funding to Reduce Child Labor in Colombia
May 22, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
The U.S. Department of Labor has announced it is providing $9 million in grant funding to help reduce child labor in Colombian mines. continue reading »
Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration Travels to Ecuador, Colombia
May 19, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM) Anne C. Richard will travel to Ecuador, May 17-18, and Colombia, May 19-23. continue reading »
Juan Manuel Santos Looking At Re-Election in 2014
May 17, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos gave advance notice Friday that he will seek a second term in the 2014 elections, though he added that, in compliance with the law, he will not make the formal announcement until six months prior to the vote. continue reading »
Bill Clinton Meets With Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colombian President
May 17, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Visiting U.S. former President Bill Clinton met in Cartagena with Colombian head of state Juan Manuel Santos and literary icon Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and on Thursday joined Bogota Mayor Gustavo Petro for a ride around that Caribbean city in an electric taxi. continue reading »
Pope Francis Receives Colombian President – Urges Peace with FARC Guerillas
May 13, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
This morning, Pope Francis I received President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia and urged for peace between the government and FARC guerillas. continue reading »
Journalist Gunned Down in Colombia
May 11, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Colombian journalist Alberto Lazaro Del Valle died after being shot in the southwestern city of Cali, officials said. Authorities said the motive for Friday night's homicide would have nothing to do with his profession as a radio announcer and disc jockey, according to the latest investigations into the killing of the director of Cali's Radio Planeta. continue reading »
Colombia to Produce Flight Simulator for Drones Training
May 10, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Colombian authorities presented the country's first domestically produced flight simulator for training operators of unmanned drones. The simulator is the debut project to emerge from Colombia's Corporation for High Technology in Defense and involved collaboration between military and civilian engineers, Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzon said in an event at Apiay airbase in the central province of Meta. continue reading »
Colombian Army Kills 7 FARC Rebels
May 6, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Army troops killed seven FARC guerrillas and captured an eighth in fighting in southwestern Colombia over the weekend, a high-level military commander said. The dead guerrillas belonged to the 29th Front of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, Southwestern Joint Command chief Gen. Leonardo Barrero Gordillo told Efe. continue reading »
Four Colombian Cities Receive IDB Plans for Urban Growth
May 6, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) today announced the completion of action plans for the Colombian cities of Barranquilla, Bucaramanga, Manizales, and Pereira, providing them with powerful tools to prioritize their investments over the next decade. continue reading »
Colombia Investigates Alleged Massacre of 7 Indians
May 5, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Colombian authorities are continuing an investigation to verify an alleged massacre in the northwestern town of Taraza, in which five children and two adults are said to have died, all members of an indigenous community. continue reading »
433,000 Visitors Headed to Bogota International Book Fair
May 3, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
The Bogota International Book Fair, whose guest of honor was Portugal this year, drew 18,000 more visitors than the 2012 edition, with total visitors hitting 433,000, organizers said. continue reading »
Colombian President Santos Spends Night in Project of 1600 Free Apartments
April 27, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
President Juan Manuel Santos slept in one of the 320 apartments that will be given to the neediest of Valledupar (in this project there are 1,600 total). The Head of State claimed this act was to verify the quality of the structures and ensure that the beneficiaries may live a dignified and quality continue reading »
Colombian Teen Hit-Man Confesses to more Than 30 Assassinations
April 27, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
In Latin America news, a now 19-year-old teen gun for hire has confessed to over 30 murders when he was between the ages of 11-16. Andres Leonardo Achipiz blames his family's poverty and fathers abuse as to what lead him to a life of crime. continue reading »
Police Kill Drug Gang’s Number 2 in Colombia
April 24, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
The second-in-command of Colombia's Los Urabeños drug gang was killed in a shootout with police, authorities said Wednesday. Francisco Jose Morela, alias "El negro Sarley," was killed in a rural area outside the northwestern town of Turbo, Antioquia province, Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzon and National Police director Gen. Jose Roberto Leon Riaño said in a press conference. continue reading »
IACHR Condemns Murder of Colombian Activist
April 21, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) laments the murder of Ever Cordero, who chaired a participatory dialogue process for victims of displacement in the department (province) of Córdoba, Colombia. continue reading »
Chapel Housed inside 500-Year-old Colombian Salt Mine
April 20, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latin American Wonders
Breathtaking chapel housed in 500-year-old Colombian salt mine. Chapel was built by miners as a place to pray before they started work and sits 800meters underground continue reading »
Colombia Leads Latin America in Automation
April 12, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Colombia, the South American country that is second in foreign investment after Brazil, has become the regional leader in applying industrial automation, experts told Efe at the Automatisa 2013 trade fair, which began earlier this week in Bogota. continue reading »
Nobel Laureate Calls For an End to Censorship
April 11, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
South African-born Nobel literature laureate J.M. Coetzee offered an impassioned critique of censorship during a seminar at the Universidad Central de Bogota. continue reading »
Colombia Restores Land Seized by Militia to Peasants
April 11, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
President Juan Manuel Santos traveled to the northern province of Cordoba on Wednesday to preside over the restoration of lands stolen from 60 peasant families by the founders of Colombia's murderous AUC militia movement. continue reading »
COLOMBIA: Marchers Call for Peace Between Gov’t, FARC
April 10, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Thousands of Colombians filled the streets of this capital and other cities Tuesday to support the peace process being negotiated by the government and FARC rebels, in the most pluralistic rally that a continue reading »
