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Bloomberg - Thu Nov 12, 12:40 pm ET
Nov. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Colombia’s peso declined as the price of oil, the nation’s top export, fell. The peso slid 0.7 percent to 1,979.42 per U.S. dollar at 10:38 a.m. New York time, from 1,965.45 yesterday.
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CommonDreams.org - Thu Nov 12, 10:30 am ET
by Diane Taylor Ninety-five Colombian farmers are suing the oil company BP in the high court in London for allegedly causing serious damage to their land, crops and animals. In the first case of its kind, the farmers are claiming that BP Exploration Company (Colombia) Ltd, which joined forces with Colombia's national oil company and four foreign multinational corporations in a consortium to ...
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Bloomberg - Wed Nov 11, 10:19 am ET
Nov. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Colombia’s peso climbed after Finance Minister Oscar Ivan Zuluaga said the country isn’t considering capital controls to stem the currency’s rise.
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Bloomberg - Wed Nov 11, 5:04 pm ET
Nov. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Colombia’s peso climbed after global stocks advanced and the government said it won’t seek capital controls. The peso strengthened 0.2 percent to 1,965.45 per U.S. dollar at 3:37 p.m. New York time, from 1,969.35 yesterday.
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Bloomberg - Wed Nov 11, 4:40 pm ET
Nov. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Colombia’s peso climbed as a global stock rally boosted investor appetite for higher-yielding, emerging-market assets and the government said it won’t seek capital controls.
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Bloomberg - Wed Nov 11, 4:25 pm ET
Nov. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Colombia isn’t considering implementing capital controls to stem gains in the peso, Finance Minister Oscar Ivan Zuluaga said. “We are not thinking definitely about capital controls,” Zuluaga said in a Bloomberg Television interview today in Tokyo.
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Online Journal - Thu Nov 12, 12:55 am ET
Anyone with some information can immediately see that the sweetened ‘Complementation Agreement for Defense and Security Cooperation and Technical Assistance between the Governments of Colombia and the United States’ signed on October 30, and made public in the evening of November 2, amounts to the annexation of Colombia to the United States.
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AP via Yahoo! News - Tue Nov 10, 10:18 pm ET
Brazil and the U.S. urged Colombia and Venezuela on Tuesday to talk out their differences after Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez ordered his military to prepare for a possible war with his neighbor.
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New York Times - Tue Nov 10, 9:03 pm ET
The offensive by guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia took place in the southwest part of the country that officials say the guerrillas use for cocaine smuggling.
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INO News - Wed Nov 11, 8:26 pm ET
Below are prices set by Colombia's National Federation of Coffee Growers, or Fedecafe, for purchases by the National Coffee Fund on Wednesday. The prices, for a 125-kilogram bag of parchment coffee, apply until further notice but normally stay in effect for a 24-hour period.
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New York Times - Wed Nov 11, 10:18 pm ET
The governor of a Venezuelan border state says the Chávez government gives its blessing to some guerrillas on Venezuelan soil.
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INO News - Wed Nov 11, 8:13 pm ET
BOGOTA (Dow Jones)--Colombia's National Federation of Coffee Growers, or Fedecafe, on Wednesday set the daily coffee export price at $1.7505 a pound, down from $1.8025/lb on Nov. 10.
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Bloomberg - Thu Nov 12, 3:54 pm ET
Nov. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Venezuela’s bolivar fell to a one- week low in unregulated trading after Finance Minister Ali Rodriguez said the government is “cautiously” studying a devaluation of the official exchange rate.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Tue Nov 10, 4:31 pm ET
The United States on Tuesday called on Colombia and Venezuela to talk out their differences, before the growing tension over a US-Colombian military base deal gets out of hand.
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redOrbit - Wed Nov 11, 11:16 am ET
TORONTO, Nov. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Sirit Inc. ("Sirit")(TSX: SI), a global provider of radio frequency identification ("RFID") technology, announces the launch of its second toll installation in Colombia.