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Google News: Colombia adopts new poverty index measure
[Reuters AlertNet] - “We're going to have some new, much more exact tools with which to criticise and control the actions (against poverty) of the state,” Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said during a speech to mark the launch of the MPI in Colombia earlier this
Latin America: A toxic trade
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[Financial Times] - Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos recently lamented the fact that disassembled hand guns can be dispatched by Federal Express to his country, where they are pieced back together. In Mexico, as much as 70 per cent of guns seized come from America.
Google News: Crackdown on crime could unlock Colombia's potential, says EM expert
[Citywire.co.uk] - Speaking to Citywire Global, Sally Greig, who has managed the firm's Emerging Markets Bond fund since May 2010, said efforts to address the country's less than pristine record on crime have picked up pace under President Juan Manuel Santos.
Google News: Colombia make a reluctant farewell
[IEWY News] - Trying to lift the mood in the wake of the hosts' elimination from the FIFA U-20 World Cup, the country's president Juan Manuel Santos pays a visit to Eduardo Lara's crestfallen squad, though the look on his face as he emerges from the changing room
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