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Activities unveil alternative BHP report
Bogotá :: Colombia | about 7 hours ago
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The report contains case studies of the company's mining activities which the activists say are contrary to its sustainable development policy. The National Union of Food Industry Workers of Colombia president Duban Antonio Velez Mejia is in Brisbane...
Tags: BHP Billiton, Colombia, Bogotá, Environment, Broken Hill
Soccer: Officials 'laundered drug money'
Bogotá :: Colombia | about 9 hours ago
Credibility Eleven former officials of Colombian football club Independiente Medellin were charged on Tuesday with using it to launder drug money. Among those charged were Rodrigo Tamayo, club president in 1998-2000 and 2004, Tamayo's wife, Dolly Cardenas, and two...
Tags: laundered drug, Rodrigo Tamayo, drug money, Colombia, Bogotá, Money laundering, Independiente Medellￃﾭn, Law Crime
Agents detail operation of drug ring
Puerto Rico :: Colombia | about 17 hours ago
Credibility A drug ring operating from Kissimee, Fla., bought large amounts of cocaine in Colombia to sell in western Massachusetts, prosecutors allege. The ring's alleged leader, Arturo Aleman-Diaz, was arrested last month and charged with trafficking and conspiring...
Tags: Arturo Aleman-Diaz, Colombia, Puerto Rico, Tropanes, Drug lord, Cocaine, Drug addiction, Stimulants, Law Crime
US-COLOMBIA: Activists Target "World of Coca-Cola"
Colombia :: Cuba | about 21 hours ago
Credibility Activists from the U.S. and Colombia are targeting the World of Coca-Cola museum, located near its headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, accusing the company of "union busting", paying its workers "poverty wages", and engaging in environmentally destructive...
Tags: Coca-Cola Company, Colombian, Killer Coke, Ian Hoffmann, Coke Zero, U.S. District Court, Martha Giraldo, cola bottler, cola products, trade union, Cuba, Colombia, The Coca-Cola Company, SINALTRAINAL, Criticism of Coca-Cola, Coke, Coca, War Conflict, Coca-Cola, Cola, Sinaltrainal v. Coca-Cola
My naturalization proof of the allure of the American Dream
Bogotá :: Colombia | about 21 hours ago
Credibility As I looked around during my naturalization ceremony, I realized that my fellow new Americans had come from all corners of the world. Despite our different journeys, we had one thing in common: the shared belief that the American Dream is still vibrating...
Tags: American Dream, americans dreams, Colombia, Bogotá, Immigration and Nationality Act, Nationality law, Naturalization, United States nationality law, Social Issues
Identity revealed, life of U.S. agent spared in Colombia
Colombia :: Cuba | about 23 hours ago
Credibility Immigration and Customs agent escaped a harrowing kidnapping saga in Colombia after his identity was revealed. Luis Angel Ortiz was being driven to a party in Medellín when the car came to a halt and a man in the back seat put a gun to his head...The...
Tags: Ortiz, Colombian, San Juan, FBI, Luis Albeiro Peña Peña, U.S. Immigration and Customs, drug trafficker, Medellín, Jiménez Castañeda, Cuba, Colombia, Medellￃﾭn, Metropolitan Area of Medellￃﾭn, Law Crime
Energy saving program falls short
Bogotá :: Colombia | about 24 hours ago
Credibility Maritime Electric has signed up far fewer households than it wanted for this year's Winter Challenge on P.E.I. The use of helmets will remain voluntary at Atlantic skill hills this year because there are no models approved by the Canadian Standards Association,...
Tags: Colombia, Bogotá, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
Border zones and insecurity in the Americas,
Madrid :: Colombia | 1 day ago
Credibility Criminal gangs exploit weak state presence to forge a parallel state and prosecute their criminal enterprises sustained by fear, violence and brutality. Border zones are incubators of criminal instability and violence. Weak state presence and the lucrative...
Tags: Mexico-Central American Corridor, borders zones, Brazilian, Ivan Briscoe, Colombian, Guatemala, Latin American, criminals gangs, Venezuela, briscoe noted, Colombia, Madrid
Voice of America expands Latin American audience
Miami :: FL :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility Facing a group of presidents loudly critical of Washington, the U.S. government's Voice of America broadcast is expanding its audience in Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador and Nicaragua, VOA officials said. VOA's Spanish-language division also will step up...
Tags: VOA, Central America, Bolivia, Radio/TV Marti, ecuador andes, andean regions, Nicaragua, Colombia, Washington, Joan Mower, Miami, Opposition to Fidel Castro, TV Martￃﾭ, International broadcasting, Voice of America, Cuba ￢ﾀﾓ United States relations
OPAPP gets anti-insurgency tips from Colombian counterpart
Manila :: Philippines | 1 day ago
Credibility Eder, political advisor of the Office of the High Presidential Counselor for Reintegration, presented the status of the ongoing twin peace processes the Philippine government is conducting with Muslim and communist rebel groups. Theme of the conference...
Tags: Colombian Communist Party, Philippines, OPAPP, Philippine-Columbia, FARC, peace process, Manila, Moro Islamic Liberation Front, ￃﾁlvaro Uribe, Andrￃﾩs Pastrana Arango, Colombia, Colombian armed conflict, Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, Presidents of Colombia, Far-left politics, Politics, War Conflict
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