Bloomberg
Tuesday, March 30, 2010 - 00:00
Latin America's oldest guerrilla group released its first hostage in a year yesterday in a bid to inject itself into Colombia's presidential race.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010 - 00:00
Santos, who heads the ticket for the La U party, had the support of 36 percent of those polled, followed by Noemi Sanin, who garnered 17 percent backing.
Monday, March 29, 2010 - 00:00
Colombia’s peso rose amid gains in oil, the nation’s biggest export, and as signs the U.S. economy is recovering buoyed demand for higher-yielding, emerging-market assets.
Friday, March 26, 2010 - 00:00
Gross domestic product expanded 2.5 percent from a year earlier, the first growth in a year, beating the median estimate of 1.7 percent in a Bloomberg survey of 31 economists.
Friday, March 26, 2010 - 00:00
Zuloaga was stopped from leaving a regional airport in his private plane and was flown to Caracas to face arraignment after making "offensive and disrespectful" comments about Chavez at an international conference.
Thursday, March 18, 2010 - 00:00
The IDB approved a record $15.5 billion in loans last year. Without a capital increase -- the bank’s last one was in 1994 -- lending could fall to $7 billion annually
Tuesday, March 16, 2010 - 00:00
Colombian presidential candidate Juan Manuel Santos's La U party was leading as vote counting for congressional elections continued yesterday, consolidating his position as the front-runner to succeed Alvaro Uribe.
Monday, March 15, 2010 - 00:00
"The Colombian people were very clear yesterday, saying, we want these policies to continue," Santos, who served as a defense minister under Uribe, told Bogota-based W Radio today.
Friday, March 5, 2010 - 00:00
Clinton sent a letter on March 3 to Congress "notifying them that we will be restoring aid to Honduras."
Thursday, March 4, 2010 - 00:00
Instead of shrinking the state and boosting savings as he promised before elections in January, Pinera may now have to ramp up deficit spending, borrow abroad for the first time since 2004 and tap the country’s $15 billion in offshore wealth funds.