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Saturday, November 21, 2009 9:43 PM

Bogota

Type: City

Name: Bogota

Country: Colombia

Latitude: 4.63

Longitude: -74.089996

population: 7,102,602

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 9 hours ago - 9 Documents

COLOMBIA - VENEZUELA: Bogota says troops on 'maximum alert'

Colombia has put its forces on maximum alert after what it described as unprovoked aggressions by Venezuela along the border between the two countries. On Wednesday, Venezuelan troops blew up two cross-border pedestrian bridges.AFP - Colombia warned Friday ... [France24 - 9 hours ago]

Entities: Colombia, Venezuela, Bogota

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 3 Documents

Fitch Ratings

Fitch Affirms Empresa de Energia de Bogota's IDRs at 'BB'; Outlook Negative

TGI does not, and is not expected to pay dividends to EEB for the foreseeable future. Capital expenditures are expected to increase, which will pressure credit metrics.Additional information is available at 'www.fitchratings.com'ALL FITCH CREDIT RATINGS ... [Earthtimes.org - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Bogota, Fitch Ratings, Capital Expenditures, Credit Ratings

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 3 Documents

Colombia-Venezuela divide widens

Colombia has accused Venezuela of blowing up two pedestrian bridges that link the countries.Gabriel Silva, Colombia's defence minister, said uniformed men, allegedly from the Venezuelan army, blew up the bridges that cross into Colombia's Norte de Santander ... [Al Jazeera - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Colombia, Venezuela, Bogota, Mónica Villamizar, Military/Armed Forces

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

Catherine Ashton, Baroness Ashton of Upholland

Reuters World News Highlights 2200 GMT Nov 19

KABUL - Newly inaugurated Afghan President Hamid Karzai pledged to tackle corruption and said his country's security forces should be ready to take over security from foreign forces within his new five-year term.- - - -PESHAWAR, Pakistan - A suicide bomber ... [Forbes.com - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Peshawar, Ukraine, Catherine Ashton, Baroness Ashton of Upholland, Herman van Rompuy

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 1 Documents

Alvaro Uribe

Uribe to attend UNASUR summit but does not intend to meet Chavez

Colombia’s President Alvaro Uribe will attend the UNASUR summit on November 26 but will not talk to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, confirmed the Foreign Minister on Wednesday.The Foreign Minister, Jaime Bermudez, announced that Uribe will attend the ... [Bogota Free Planet - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Alvaro Uribe, Hugo Chávez, Colombia, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

FARC

FARC proposes "anti-imperialist committees" on Colombia-Venezuela border

The rebel Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) advised the residents of the Colombian-Venezuelan border to organize 'anti-imperialist committees' against a military agreement recently executed by Bogotá and Washington.'We call upon the inhabitants ... [El Universal - 11/19/2009]

Entities: FARC, REVOLUTIONARY, Bogota, Insurgents, Guerrilla

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Politics)

Create space for people not cars, says expert

For residents of a city that has seen the number of bridges and flyovers grow rapidly in recent years, and an administration that prides itself on announcing more flyovers to ease traffic flow, Mr Enrique Penalosa, a former mayor of Bogota, presents some ... [Hindu Business Line - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Traffic Flow, Traffic Management, Enrique Penalosa, Bus Rapid Transit, Bogota

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 1 Documents (in Politics)

Colombia, Ecuador resume contact on border security

BOGOTA, Nov. 19 (xinhua) -- The governments of Colombia and Ecuador reinstalled here on Thursday a defunct frontier committee to resume contact on border security one and a half years after both sides cut off ties.Colombian Defence Minister Gabriel Silva, ... [Xinhua News Agency - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Ecuador, Colombia, Bilateral, Since (Colombia), FARC

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 1 Documents

Colombian Chefs Create ‘Love Dessert’ with Viagra

Students at a Colombian cooking school have created a ‘love dessert’ made with passion fruit and Viagra.Student chefs at the state culinary school, SENA, in Quindio province, came to the capital Bogota to present their special pudding at the “Gastronomy ... [Bogota Free Planet - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Viagra, Bogota, Carlos Romero

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 1 Documents (in Politics)

Media distortion has corrupted American healthcare debate

We’ve all said the dirty word. We’ve read about it, talked about it and felt our blood pressure rise because of it. Healthcare — America’s taboo topic.On Nov. 8, the House of Representatives passed President Obama’s healthcare reform bill by a narrow ... [Bogota Free Planet - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Health Care, Bogota, Barack Obama

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 1 Documents

Bogota again….

With great difficulty I have finally left Bogota for the second time, where once again instead of initially planned 4 days I´ve stayed for nearly 2 weeks. Starting from the beginning, why did I come back there in the first place? For the two reasons, ... [Bogota Free Planet - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Bogota, Russia

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 1 Documents

ANALYSIS - Colombia to face sell-off if Uribe doesn’t run

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian stocks and bonds will fall if market-friendly President Alvaro Uribe is barred by the courts from running for a third term next year, a ruling that would upset investors but create buying opportunities.The conservative leader ... [Bogota Free Planet - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Alvaro Uribe, Colombia, Bogota

Quotes

...'But this "does not mean that we are not prepared or are not on maximum alert to prevent any aggression against Colombia, against Colombians or against our territory." Uribe's national security council met for five hours in Arauca with military and police commanders in the border area a day after Bogota charged that...

Colombia on red alert [iafrica.com - 11 hours ago]

"This government has made important advances for the progress of the country" says Alfredo Rangel, head of the Security and Democracy Foundation in Bogotá. "People want it to continue."

Nicaragua is latest in Latin America to reject term limits [Christian Science Monitor - 11/19/2009]

...Continues Below "The tensions between Colombia and Venezuela are intensifying, but neither of the two presidents really seems to intend to resort to military action" said Rosendo Fraga, director of the New Majority, an Argentine research centre

Bilateral tensions sparked in Latin America [IOL - 11/19/2009]

Five women and a man who belonged to an organization "dedicated to dealing in persons for the commercial sexual exploitation of women from Medellin and Bogota to Honduras and Guatemala" were arrested in Medellin, the capital of Antioquia, the National Police said in a statement

11 Arrested on People-Trafficking Charges in Colombia [Inside Costa Rica - 11/19/2009]

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Venezuela blows up two bridges along Colombia b... [Christian Science Monitor - 11/20/2009]
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No Quattro System for Audi A1 Mini Car [Bogota Free Planet - 11/20/2009]
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Off-the-charts surgery figures demand review [Bogota Free Planet - 11/20/2009]
Kinetex Announces Private Placement of Units [Canoe Money - 11/20/2009]
ANALYSIS - Colombia to face sell-off if Uribe d... [Bogota Free Planet - 11/20/2009]

Blogs

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UPDATE 3-Colombia says will not be provoked by ... [Economy-Finance - 5 hours ago] * Chavez’s insults, dynamited bridges raise tensions * Colombian military chiefs meet, no troop build-up seen * Chavez says U.S. preparing for war in Latin ...
UPDATE 2-Colombia says will not be provoked by ... [Economy-Finance - 23 hours ago] * Chavez’s insults, dynamited bridges raise tensions * Border town residents forced to wade across river * Colombian military chiefs meet, no troop buildup ...
"The View From Your Window" - Now Jus... [The Daily Dish \| By Andrew Sullivan - 11/19/2009] Apologies for the belated update, especially to the 1000+ readers last week who pledged to purchase at least one Window View book. (Total pledges: nearly ...
Human Rights First: Unjustly detained Colombian... [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - 11/18/2009] By Andrew Hudson, Manager Human Rights Defenders Program All signs pointed to the release of Carmelo Agamez Berrio, a well known Colombian human rights ...
Global Warfare, U.S. Military Operations in All... [The Market Oracle - 11/17/2009] "Not only does one country account for the overwhelming plurality of world military expenditures, but that nation also has troops and bases on all six habitable ...

Audio/Video

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