Colombia News

At a Colombian National Police base in the outskirts of Bogota, the nation's capital, a new recruit is being trained.

Bio Hotel , a sustainable construction inspired by the LEED methodology, will be a 7-storey hotel located in Bogota D.C. - Colombia.

During the first two days of February four terrorist attacks were committed in Colombia, killing 20 people and injuring over 100.

Colombia's economy likely grew as much as 6 percent in 2011 as strong overseas sales and domestic demand for consumer goods boosted bank lending, central bank chief Jose Dario Uribe said on Monday.

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Jakadrien Lovece Turner was fourteen years old when she ran away from home in November, 2010.

The scene of a lady, usually in heels, strutting through a shopping center with stacks of purchases in each hand comes to mind when one imagines "shopping." And with good reason, according to optician Van de la Plante.

The roses are packed, labelled and cold-stored for shipment. A Some 500 million Colombian roses will be picked and packaged off to the U.S. for sale on Valentines Day.

'Our homeland is bleeding painfully,' is how Honduran Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez put it recently at a religious event whose audience included Honduran President Porfirio Lobo.

Cary fiber artist Ana Sumner uses fabric, ribbon, beads and intricate stitching to render images often inspired by nature - from koi waiting for a bite to eat to lighthouses and coral reefs.

The Nationwide Tour kicks off its 23rd season this week in Bogota, Colombia, and maybe it's time for the average golf fan to start taking the so-called developmental circuit a little more seriously.

In 1998, my father riffled a red deck of playing cards while we attended a family reunion on the outskirts of Bogota, Colombia.

The Colombian security forces have seized three tonnes of explosives and arms belonging to the country's biggest left-wing rebel group, the Farc.

The country's central bank seems to think so. Not content with having made a surprise interest rate hike last month and then launching a dollar buying programme this week to curb the rise in the peso, Colombian policy makers are now studying measures to slow consumer credit growth.

The Maderplast factory in Bogot, Colombia, is where dozens of manhole covers made of composite plastics were stolen and which later turned up in the nearby city of Neiva.

Animals can be cute, lively - and elusive. When a soft, furry animal wanders into the world of human sports, all we can say is "Awww!" while secretly hoping they avoid all tackle attempts.

A worker packs roses to be shipped to the US ahead of Valentine's Day, the biggest holiday of the year for fresh-cut flower sales at the Mongibello flower company in Chia, north of Bogota, Colombia.

Assistant Secretary for Economic and Business Affairs Jose W. Fernandez will travel to Bogota, Colombia, and Lima, Peru, from February 13 to February 17, 2012.

BOGOTA, COLOMBIA, February 9 .- Archbishop Ruben Salazar of Bogota, head of the Colombian bishops' conference, insisted that the local rebel group FARC put an end to the decades-long civil conflict in the country.

Helm Bank SA, Colombia's best- performing financial stock in the past month, said its controlling stakeholders have no intention of selling amid takeover speculation that's driven the share price up from a three-year low.