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BOGOTA--Colombia's benchmark stock index declined Monday, pushed lower by a drop in the share of state-run oil firm Ecopetrol SA, while the peso was mostly flat against the dollar. The Colcap index, Colombia's benchmark stock measure, declined 0.48% ...

Former President Clinton visited Colombia last week, meeting with President Juan Manuel Santos and visiting Bogota, where Mayor Gustavo Petro showed him around the city in an electric taxi. Then Clinton took time out to visit with , 86. Marquez has ...

BOGOTA, May 20 (Xinhua) -- Colombian authorities have said security measures are in place for a two-day summit of Pacific Alliance later this week in Cali, capital of the western province of Cauca. Colombia has deployed more than 3,000 police ...

BOGOTA, May 20 (Xinhua) -- Colombian authorities announced on Monday that they had killed Ernesto Hurtado Penaloza, the head of security for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrilla group. Penaloza, also known as "el Negro ...

BOGOTA -- As a rabidly pro-government television host in Venezuela, Mario Silva often pillories the opposition by airing surreptitious recordings of their telephone conversations. On Monday, Silva became a victim of his own methods when critics ...

A surveillance video from Bogota, Colombia shows a man try to steal a woman's cell phone, only to be hit by an oncoming bus seconds later. The footage of sweet bustice, which was posted to YouTube Saturday, has over 100,000 views. The , according to ...

DOW JONES NEWSWIRES BOGOTA--Below are prices set by Colombia's National Federation of Coffee Growers, known as Fedecafe, for purchases by the National Coffee Fund on Monday. The prices, for a 125-kilogram bag of parchment coffee, are in Colombian ...

Bogota, May 17 (IANS) Independiente Santa Fe defeated Gremio 1-0 and advanced to the quarter-finals of the Copa Libertadores.The result at El Campin stadium Thursday left the teams tied 2-2 on aggregate but the Colombian outfit progressed on away ...

Bogota-based airline operator Avianca Holdings SA (BVC: PFAVTA) said it posted operating income of USD 1.11bn during Q1 '13. This is equivalent to an increase of 6.0% with respect to the same period of 2012, Avianca said. Operating income came in at ...