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The Colombian Identity Card (Spanish: Documento de Identidad Colombiano, pronounced [dokuˈmento ðejðentiˈðað kolomˈbjano], also known as Cédula de Ciudadanía) is the identity document issued to Colombian citizens by local registry offices in Colombia and diplomatic missions abroad to every Colombian person over 18 years of age.
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 cédula de identidad , also known as cédula de ciudadanía or Documento de identidad (DNI), is a national identity document in many countries in Central and South America. In certain countries, such as Costa Rica , a cédula de identidad is the only valid identity document for many purposes; for example, a driving license or passport is not ...
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 ...
Ibagué was founded by Andrés López de Galarza on 14 October 1550, as "Villa de San Bonifacio de Ibagué del Valle de las Lanzas" ("Town of Saint Boniface of Ibagué of the Valley of the Spears") in a nearby location where now lies the urban area of the neighboring municipality of Cajamarca about 42 km (26 miles) to the west of Ibagué's current whereabouts.
Latifundia included a villa rustica, including an often luxurious owner's residence, and the operation of the farm relied on a large number of Roman slaves, [5] sometimes kept in an ergastulum. They produced agricultural products for sale and profit such as livestock ( sheep and cattle ) or olive oil, grain, garum and wine.
On 11 October 2012 Jamal Yousef, a.k.a. "Talal Hassan Ghantou", a native of Lebanon, was sentenced to 12 years in prison for conspiring to provide military-grade weapons to the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (the FARC), in exchange for over a ton of cocaine. Yousef pleaded guilty in May 2012 to one count of providing material ...