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A Delta Air Lines flight from Colombia to Atlanta returned to the Bogota airport as a precaution Wednesday after the crew discovered some cracks in the copilot's windshield.
So much so, one of them punched the other so hard, it became part of the legend that still surrounds the personal lives of two Titans of “Magic Realism” in Latin America, Poet Laurate Gabriel García Márquez (Colombia) and Chief Architect of Spanish-language Letters, Don Mario Vargas Llosa (Perú). {sidebar id=568} Vargas Llosa, master of the finest syntax in Spanish, turned those fingers that has ...
ATLANTA, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- A Delta Air Lines plane got a new windshield and flew to Atlanta from Colombia a day late after the first windshield showed cracks in flight, the airline said.
Below are prices set by Colombia's National Federation of Coffee Growers, or Fedecafe, for purchases by the National Coffee Fund on Thursday. The prices, for a 125-kilogram bag of parchment coffee, apply until further notice but normally stay in effect for a 24-hour period.
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores SA , Colombia’s biggest financial holding company, sold 750 billion pesos ($376.4 million) of bonds in a record offering for the local exchange.
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Riopaila Castilla SA , a Colombian sugar producer, said it abandoned plans to sell as much as 100 billion pesos ($50.2 million) of bonds in the local market and borrowed from banks instead.
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores SA , Colombia’s biggest financial holding company, sold 750 billion pesos ($376.4 million) of bonds in the domestic market.
BLACKHAWK! Products Group™, world leading manufacturing of tactical gear for military, law enforcement, industrial security, and outdoor markets has been awarded a multi-million dollar holster contact for the Colombian National Police.
BOGOTA (Dow Jones)--The rally in Colombian stocks that had led the benchmark index to a new record high on Thursday may slow down in early 2010, analysts and traders said.
(AP:BOGOTA) Colombia's energy minister says drought has forced his country to reduce exports of electricity to neighboring Venezuela and Ecuador. Minister Hernan Martinez tells Radio Caracol that Venezuela had been getting 70 to 80 megawatts a day while Ecuador was getting up to 250 megawatts.
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Colombia’s IGBC equity index rose to a record, becoming the first benchmark gauge among the world’s largest markets to surpass an all-time high this year, as interest-rate cuts and rising commodity prices lured investors to the nation’s stocks.
BOGOTA (Dow Jones)--Colombia is an easier place to do business than Brazil, Mexico, Venezuela and Bolivia, a leading U.S. investor said Wednesday.
BOGOTA (Dow Jones)--Colombia's benchmark IGBC stock index Thursday ended at an all-time record high as part of a year-end rally. The index rose 1.2% to end at 11,558.72 points. The previous IGBC highest close was registered on Nov. 23, 2007, at 11,438.88 points.
(AP:BOGOTA) Colombia's energy minister says his drought has forced his country to reduce exports of electricity to neighboring Venezuela and Ecuador. Minister Hernan Martinez tells Radio Caracol that Colombia had been getting 70 to 80 megawatts a day while Colombia was getting up to 250 megawatts.
The December 2nd edition of the Washington Post featured a story on a documentary film called The sins of my father . The film tells the story of Sebastion Escobar, the son of Pablo Escobar, the former head of the infamous Medellin, Colombia cocaine cartel.
BOGOTA (Dow Jones)--Colombia's benchmark IGBC stock index Thursday opened above its all-time record high as part of a year-end rally. The index was up 1% to 11,536.48 points at 9.23 a.m., EST. The IGBC's highest close was registered on November 23, 2007 at 11,438.88 points.
