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The FARC reported that “military siege” threatens unilateral ceasefire

The FARC reported on Sunday in Havana that the Colombian army intensifies the “siege” against their units in the Llanos Orientales and the Cauca, which endangers the unilateral and indefinite truce declared last December 20. “The military siege against guerrilla...
Posted On 12 Jan 2015
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Vice President Glas rejected accusations of Assemblyman Páez

Vice President Jorge Glas Espinel rejected on January 10 the statements of Assemblyman Andrés Páez (CREO), according to who, bank transfers for $ 22.8 million would exist in favor of two people close to the official. “I will not let anyone put my name in the shadows,”...
Posted On 11 Jan 2015
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Colombia lamented the Ecuador safeguarding of 21% on their products

Colombian Minister of Agriculture Aurelio Iragorri Valencia lamented the “unilateral measure” taken by Ecuador of imposing a safeguard of 21% to products from Colombia, but hoped a solution through dialogue. “We hope that by way of the constructive dialogue a...
Posted On 11 Jan 2015
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Government extended the delivery of the hydroelectric plant Toachi Pilatón to 315 days

With a resolution subscribed on 24 December 2014, the government extended by 10 months and a half the delivery time of the Hydroelectric Project Toachi Pilatón to the Chinese company CWE. The State will also cover the additional costs in wich the firm will incur for the delay in...
Posted On 11 Jan 2015
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Sectors of production and safety have higher cut in the annual budget

The sectoral councils of Production, Employment and Competitiveness with $ -398.8 million; of Security with $ -110.8 million and Social Development with an amount of $ -101.8 million are those that will suffer more cuts in investment in 2015. This is stated in the publication of...
Posted On 11 Jan 2015
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Black boxes of crashed AirAsia plane are detected

A rescue team detected on January 10 signals of the black boxes of the AirAsia plane, crashed with 162 people on board last December 28 in the Java Sea, a day after it managed to recover the tail section of the apparatus. The signals have been detected at about 30 meters depth...
Posted On 11 Jan 2015
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A march will be held in Paris for the victims of the attack that left 17 dead

Hundreds of thousands of people are congregated in Paris hours before starting the manifestation of homage to the victims of the attacks that left 17 dead this week in France, in which about 50 political leaders worldwide will participate. “Paris is today the capital of the...
Posted On 11 Jan 2015
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CREO Assemblyman Páez confronted Vice President Glas by alleged deposits from China

Andrés Páez, CREO Assemblyman and legislator for Pichincha, who two days ago submitted documents with which he questions a number of deposits made from China to Ecuadorian accounts, said on January 9 he will not shun any judgment in the event that the Vice President Jorge Glas,...
Posted On 10 Jan 2015
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Oil barrel ended at $ 48.36 in New York

Oil prices ended at a slightly down on Friday, January 9 in New York. A barrel of “light sweet crude” (WTI) for February delivery fell 43 cents to $ 48.36 at the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex). In London, a barrel of Brent North Sea for the same delivery closed...
Posted On 10 Jan 2015
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Al Qaeda leader threatens France with new attacks

A religious authority of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), to which the Kouachi brothers belonged, perpetrators of the attacks against the French weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo, threatened France with new attacks in a video released on Friday, January 9, revealed the US...
Posted On 10 Jan 2015
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