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In 1991 the city's name was changed to Santa Fé de Bogotá and plates began to read "STFE DE BOGOTA." In 2000 the city's name was changed yet again Bogotá, D.C. and those issued since read "BOGOTA D.C.". As of 2017 plates that say "BOGOTA D.E." are becoming quite rare and somewhat of a collectors' item.
Pico y placa (literally Peak and Plate, Spanish for peak [hour] and [license] plate) is a driving restriction policy aimed to mitigate traffic congestion. The scheme was initially set in place in Bogotá , Colombia in 1998 by then mayor Enrique Peñalosa to help regulate traffic during rush hours . [ 1 ]
Farmacia Guadalajara Logo Farmacias Guadalajara typical branch. Farmacias Guadalajara is a Mexican drugstore chain, that was founded in 1942 [1] [2] in Guadalajara, Jalisco. In 1962 it began an expansion program, [1] and currently has more than 1725 drugstores in 19 States. It is one of only 3 businesses from Jalisco to be listed on the Mexican ...
A troll farm or troll factory is an institutionalised group of internet trolls that seeks to interfere in political opinions and decision-making. [ 1 ] Freedom House 's report showed that 30 governments worldwide (out of 65 covered by the study) paid keyboard armies to spread propaganda and attack critics. [ 2 ]
Before the 1990s, harvesting coca leaves had been a relatively small-scale business in Colombia. [3] Though Peru and Bolivia dominated coca-leaf production in the 1980s and early 1990s, manual-eradication campaigns there, the successful rupture of the air bridge that previously facilitated the illegal transport of Bolivian and Peruvian coca leaf to Colombia, and a fungus that wiped out a large ...
Mosquera is close to the capital Bogotá and is part of its metropolitan area. The urban centre of Mosquera is situated at an altitude of 2,516 metres (8,255 ft) on the Bogotá savanna. The municipality borders the localities Bosa and Fontibón of Bogotá in the east, Soacha in the south, Madrid and Funza in the north and Bojacá in the west. [2]
The Special Jurisdiction of Peace (Jurisdicción Especial para la Paz, JEP) would be the transitional justice component of the Comprehensive System, complying with Colombia's duty to investigate, clarify, prosecute and punish serious human rights violations and grave breaches of international humanitarian law which occurred during the armed ...
Buga (Spanish pronunciation:), formally Guadalajara de Buga, is a city and municipality in the Valle del Cauca Department of Colombia.It is famous for its Basilica del Señor de los Milagros, which houses an image of Christ called el Señor de los Milagros ("the Lord of the Miracles").