News Links tagged {Colombia} "Economy and Security"
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Wednesday, June 19, 2013
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Drug Policy |
| Colombia Category: | Drug Policy, Economy and Security, Politics And Security |
| Title: | En el Catatumbo buscan acuerdos |
| Author/Source: | La Opinion |
| Brief: | La consigna de los campesinos del Catatumbo es clara: no levantar las movilizaciones hasta que el Estado acepte la propuesta de creacion de zonas de reservas campesinas y suspenda la erradicacion de cultivos de coca |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | News Email |
| Colombia Category: | Drug Policy, Economy and Security, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Campesinos colombianos preparan reclamos al Gobierno tras 8 dias de protestas |
| Author/Source: | EFE Univision Noticias |
| Brief: | Los campesinos exhortaran al Gobierno a poner en marcha estrategias de sustitucion de cultivos y a compensar a los cocaleros y a los "raspachines" o recolectores con unos 500 dolares mensuales durante un ano |
Monday, June 17, 2013
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Drug Policy, Economy and Security, Recent Violence |
| Colombia Region: | Norte de Santander |
| Title: | Campesinos del Catatumbo piden mesa de dialogo al Gobierno |
| Author/Source: | El Universal (Colombia) |
| Brief: | El argumento de la comunidad es que erradicar por erradicar no lleva a nada y antes deben brindarse oportunidades a las familias campesinas para aprovechar de otra manera sus terrenos |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | News Email |
| Colombia Category: | Displacement, Economy and Security, Land Tenure |
| Title: | Colombia's Long-Elusive Goal: Land Reform |
| Author/Source: | Vivian Sequera, Frank Bajak Associated Press ABC News |
| Brief: | Illegal armed groups believed to be largely in the hire of owners of ill-gotten land are threatening a bold, unprecedented effort by President Juan Manuel Santos' government to return vast expanses of land stolen from poor farmers |
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Economy and Security, Land Tenure |
| Title: | Release of "Elusive Justice: The Struggle for Land and Life in Curvarado and Jiguamiando" |
| Author/Source: | Colombia Land |
| Brief: | [T]he failure to successfully return the land in Curvarado and Jiguamiando is not an indication of the complexities of the scenario; it is a political decision to support an abusive economic development model |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | News Email |
| Colombia Category: | Civil-military Relations, Economy and Security |
| Title: | Gobierno busca limitar salida de militares colombianos hacia Emiratos |
| Author/Source: | El Tiempo (Colombia) |
| Brief: | En poco mas de cinco anos, unos 1.400 militares colombianos han seguido la ruta del Medio Oriente |
Monday, June 10, 2013
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Economy and Security, Land Tenure |
| Title: | 'Revolcon' total en el campo anuncia el nuevo Minagricultura |
| Author/Source: | Yamid Amat El Tiempo (Colombia) |
| Brief: | Total revolcon en el sector agropecuario, incluyendo un gran censo agropecuario, una reforma catastral y el estimulo a la dedicacion de la tierra a la agricultura, y no a la ganaderia, anuncia el nuevo ministro de Agricultura |
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Economy and Security |
| Title: | Colombian truckers face a long road |
| Author/Source: | Andres Schipani, El Banco Magdalena Financial Times |
| Brief: | The government has embarked on the most ambitious transport infrastructure plan in its history to bring the road network up to date |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Economy and Security, Energy |
| Title: | Colombias oil producers surge ahead |
| Author/Source: | Andres Schipani Financial Times |
| Brief: | The army of experienced Venezuelan oil workers and technologically savvy managers was a welcome pool of knowhow oil companies entering the Colombian scene could tap |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Economy and Security, Public Security |
| Title: | Exploring Colombia's La Guajira frontier |
| Author/Source: | John Paul Rathbone Financial Times |
| Brief: | With its centuries-long tradition of smuggling, more recently drug-running and - more recently still - coalmining, it is one huge hideaway, an old-fashioned badlands |
Friday, May 31, 2013
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Economy and Security, Relations with Neighbors |
| Title: | Invitacion de la OCDE es entrar a grandes ligas de la economia: Santos |
| Author/Source: | El Tiempo (Colombia) |
| Brief: | El llamado 'club de los paises' ricos invito a Colombia a iniciar negociaciones para ingresar |