BOGOTA (AFP)--A bomb exploded during a packed street celebration in a Colombian town, killing four people wounding up to 40, authorities said. Hundreds of residents and tourists were in the streets of Iturango when the bomb exploded late Thursday.
SANTO DOMINGO.- Colombia’s government will begin talks with Dominican authorities to supply hydraulic energy, which would entail the construction of an underwater cable across the Caribbean Sea.
The project would be part of the South American country’s strategy to develop and expand its energy capacity installed in the region, where it already sells to Ecuador and Venezuela, and also proposed talks to Puerto Rico several months ago.
Flamboyant beats will heat things up this month, with the biggest Latin dance on the Sunshine Coast calendar - Dance to the Latin Beat is part of the annual FESTURI – a multicultural celebration Inc (held in the last weekend of August 2008). Now in its 9th year, within the FESTURI program, this event is a highlight within the Latin Dance social calendar.
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP)— A former Supreme Court investigator says the official probe into alleged ties between Colombian lawmakers and far-right militias has at times lacked rigor and relied too much on single witnesses.
DURHAM, N.C (UPI)—U.S. scientists say they’ve found oil and gas projects in the western Amazon are threatening not only biodiversity, but also the area’s indigenous peoples.
Colombia’s last nomadic hunter-gatherer tribe, the Nukak, is in ‘imminent danger of physical and cultural extinction’, according to the Permanent People’s Tribunal (PTT), which investigates and tries human rights violations around the world.
The Nukak were listed by the PTT along with another 27 indigenous groups in Colombia, many of whom have less than 100 members.
SYDNEY — When Const. Steven Conohan is not at home in Newfoundland coaching soccer, baseball or leading a beaver troop you may find him in Pakistan, Afghanistan or Colombia, dismantling clandestine drug laboratories.
During his 17-year career with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Sydney native has become somewhat of an expert in the field of drugs, specializing in designer drugs such as ecstasy, methamphetamine, ketamine and gamma-hydroxybutyric acid (GHB).
Since the Department of State issued an official travel warning on Saturday for Colombia, Travel Agent is recommending all agents stay on top of the latest updates before sending clients to this Latin America destination.
JACKSON, MISS.—Ballet Magnificat!’s Alpha Company of Jackson has been invited to represent the United States at an international competition in Colombia. The company will leave Jackson on Aug. 28 for the IV Festival Internacional de Ballet “Puerta de oro de Colombia.” It will return Sept. 5.
(Bloomberg)—Colombia’s central bank will probably keep borrowing costs unchanged as policy makers bet a slowing economy and 16 interest rate increases in the past 28 months are enough to stem inflation.
BOGOTA, COLOMBIA--(Marketwire) - Petrominerales Ltd. ("Petrominerales" or the “Company") (TSX:PMG), a 76.2% owned subsidiary of Petrobank Energy and Resources Ltd. ("Petrobank") (TSX:PBG), is pleased to announce that the Toronto Stock Exchange ("TSX") has accepted its notice to make a normal course issuer bid ("NCIB") to purchase outstanding common shares on the open market, in accordance with the rules of the TSX.
There has long been evidence, most of it barely investigated, that Andean peoples and Polynesian peoples have had contact various times in their pre-Colombian pasts. It has even been suggested that people arrived in South America from Polynesia - evidence of human activity in Chile from a time before humans were supposed to have crossed the Bearing Straits has been found.
In Northern Peru, in the region of Trujillo, the Moche culture developed. Their famous pottery, as well as other things, often dipicted human faces. Some of these faces, amazingly, seem to be those of races that should not have been found here. Dark skinned people, even oriental people.
The Rosario Island Coral Reef System is one of many marine National Parks in the Caribbean sea, and one of 46 in Colombia. The park covers an area of about 20 hectares of coral reef and 43 different islands.
The reef was formed hundreds of years ago. Volcanic activity deep below the earths surface pushed the seabed up over time, allowing coral beds to form and marine life to flourish. Today the area is home to more than 1,300 species of plants and animals and is a fantastic location for diving, snorkeling and other recreational water activities.
There was no confusion in Francisco Sosa’s mind about opening a Colombian restaurant, but he couldn’t resist mixing it up a little. El Desorden, which opened on Newtown Road in February, means “disorder” in Spanish, and that is what Sosa and his partners hope to achieve.
Colombia coach Jorge Luis Pinto said that Uruguay, their next opponent at the South American Qualifiers, are a direct rival in search of climbing at the overall standings.
“Our wish is to build a great team to be able to have good performances at home. We are mentally prepared to face Uruguay because they are a direct rival in the climbing at the standings; so, we just need to win,” Jorge Luis Pinto commented on his website page.
SANTO DOMINGO.- Colombia’s government will begin talks with Dominican authorities to supply hydraulic energy, which would entail the construction of an underwater cable across the Caribbean Sea.
Flamboyant beats will heat things up this month, with the biggest Latin dance on the Sunshine Coast calendar - Dance to the Latin Beat is part of the annual FESTURI – a multicultural celebration Inc (held in the last weekend of August 2008). Now in its 9th year, within the FESTURI program, this event is a highlight within the Latin Dance social calendar.
Colombia’s last nomadic hunter-gatherer tribe, the Nukak, is in ‘imminent danger of physical and cultural extinction’, according to the Permanent People’s Tribunal (PTT), which investigates and tries human rights violations around the world.
SYDNEY — When Const. Steven Conohan is not at home in Newfoundland coaching soccer, baseball or leading a beaver troop you may find him in Pakistan, Afghanistan or Colombia, dismantling clandestine drug laboratories.
There has long been evidence, most of it barely investigated, that Andean peoples and Polynesian peoples have had contact various times in their pre-Colombian pasts. It has even been suggested that people arrived in South America from Polynesia - evidence of human activity in Chile from a time before humans were supposed to have crossed the Bearing Straits has been found.
The Rosario Island Coral Reef System is one of many marine National Parks in the Caribbean sea, and one of 46 in Colombia. The park covers an area of about 20 hectares of coral reef and 43 different islands.
Colombia coach Jorge Luis Pinto said that Uruguay, their next opponent at the South American Qualifiers, are a direct rival in search of climbing at the overall standings.
