Out-going Colombian President Álvaro Uribe files complaint against Chavez before International Criminal Court Out-going Colombian President Álvaro Uribe filed a complaint before the International Criminal Court in Rome against Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez for crimes against humanity that derive from the alleged harbouring of Colombian guerrilla fighters in Venezuelan soil, Uribe's lawyer, Jaime Granados, informed.

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Lion’s share of the drugs business goes to final distributors, says UN expert The lion’s share (85%) of the gross profits from the cocaine business between South America and the United States ends in the wholesale and retail distribution network in the US according to Antonio Luigi Mazzitelli, head of the UN office on Drugs and Crime for Mexico and Central America.

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Newsham Choice Genetics, a worldwide leader in swine genetic technology, has partnered with Solla, a Medellin, Colombia-based multispecies nutrition company, to establish nucleus herds using Newsham Choice Genetics lines.

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A new report claims that American agriculture has been hurt by Congress’ inaction on the Colombian Free Trade Agreement.

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Colombia has reopened its borders to imports of live Canadian cattle.

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National Pork Producers Council International Affairs Counsel Nick Giordano, along with NPPC Public Policy Leadership Institute members last week visited with Colombian Ambassador to the United States Carolina Barco and Director of the Colombian Trade Bureau Ricardo Triana in Washington, D.C., to discuss trade issues.

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Beef cattle isn’t the first thing to come to mind when one mentions a farmer from Colombia, but Ricardo Gaitan McAllister made the trip to the NSW Beef Spectacular and Trade Expo at Dubbo last week to search for new beef genetics. He and his wife, Andrea, live in Colombia’s capital, Bogota, and operate the company Sabana Azul, which translates to Blue Savannah, and includes two farms.

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The impact of Venezuela's trade embargo against Colombia is increasingly evident in Colombia's eastern border cities, according to comments by several regional chambers of commerce

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hirteen cotton-clad bee aficionados, ages 22 to 63, piled into Jacqueline Freeman’s little country kitchen. Freeman hoisted a yellow jar of butter-thick honey and explained, sadly, how things are done at big bee farms

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The Galeras volcano in southern Colombia erupted on Saturday, shooting rock and ash

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The Colombian government has announced it is building a new military base on its border with Venezuela and has activated six new airborne battalions

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The third anniversary of the signing of the U.S.-Colombia free trade pact came and went this month with the Obama administration still negotiating the fine print, Congress showing little interest and business groups frustrated by the lack of action on trade deals.

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Canada can boost its grain and meat trade to Colombia if it ratifies its free-trade deal with Bogota before the United States, a government legislator said on Friday. Both the Canadian and American governments have signed free-trade deals with Colombia, but concerns about

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The Canadian Cattlemen’s Association (CCA) applauds the Government of Canada’s announcement that Colombia will restore full access for Canadian beef from cattle of all ages. This announcement builds on Colombia’s decision, in May 2009, to partially re-open its border to Canadian

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Sofía Margarita Vergara born July 10, 1972 (age 35) in Barranquilla, Atlantico, Colombia is a Colombian model and actress.

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The Colombian Agricultural Institute officially registered the first Veterinary Medical Laboratory for diagnosis of diseases in animalsThis confirmed that the laboratory tests and diagnostic results that were obtained by the laboratory meet with the requirements of the institute

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Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health recently organised the Second International Congress of Bovine Reproduction in Bogotá, Colombia. The event was held

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- A series of campaign rounds for Colombia's Free Trade Agreement with the European Union that began in February are due to culminate next month. This will then enable the agreement to be signed in March 2010 and the Agreement will take effect the following year.

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Colombia announced Sept. 16 it will allow importing Canadian beef from animals of all ages, which makes it the first market in South America to reopen to Canadian beef since 2003. Stockwell Day, Canada’s Minister of International Trade and Minister for the Asia-Pacific Gateway, welcomed the news. "Our government has raised the beef importation issue repeatedly with Colombia," Minister Day said. "(This) announcement demonstrates

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Chipotle Mexican Grill Restaurant Opens In Columbia Edens & Avant, a US-based retail real estate company, has announced opening of Chipotle

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Colombian President Álvaro Uribe has the H1N1 virus, according to official sources. While in Medellín, the Presidency's Information and Press Secretary of Colombia, César Mauricio Velásquez, read an official release that said that Uribe has the virus, while National Health

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"Cucuta is dead," says Fernando, a Colombian textile trader who is planning to return to his home city of Medellin because work on the border with Venezuela has dried up. "We bring in fabrics and jeans from Medellin to sell here and we've always done well out of it. But not any more. I'm taking my family back home

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The veterinary authorities have reported an outbreak of foot and mouth disease (FMD) to the World Organisation for

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Colombia completes military deal with US and invites Brazil to join Colombia would like to increase its military ties with Brazil and other South American countries, President Alvaro Uribe said on Friday after the Foreign Affairs ministry announced it had completed talks with Washington on allowing US troops to use seven Colombian military

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Unasur divided on Colombia/US troops issue; next summit in Argentina Leaders from the Union of South American Nations, Unasur meeting in a regional summit in Ecuador expressed fresh concerns over Colombian

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The growth in beef production is expected to slow in the coming years, while poultry meat output is predicted to continue growth. BMI's Colombia

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The veterinary authorities have reported an outbreak of foot and mouth disease (FMD) to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE). The Colombian

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imposed punitive tariffs on Colombian goods July 11, citing the need to protect the country's industry from the competition of a weaker currency in the northern

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The Colombian government plans to sue Ecuador in the Andean Community of Nations and the World Trade Organization if its neighbor don't lift safeguards imposed on products imported from Colombia, Trade Minister Luis Guillermo Plata said Tuesday. The Ecuadorian government

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Colombia is to double its ethanol outputby the end of the year, Agriculture Minister Andres Fernandez Acosta said during a visit to London this week. The country, that

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The Organization of American States Secretary General said the Colombian internal conflict should move towards a negotiated political solution, and offered to contribute to the peace efforts.

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Colombia is to double its ethanol outputby the end of the year, Agriculture Minister Andres Fernandez Acosta said during a visit to London this week.

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Canada welcomed news that Colombia will open their borders to Canadian beef - theborder closed due to BSE in 2003. The agreement re-opens the market for a wide

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.U.S. Sen. Mike Johanns says trade problems are piling up for President Barack Obama, including an unapproved trade agreement that would eliminate tariffs on 80 percent of U.S. exports to Colombia.

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