Until 1918, when all employees began to be paid in US dollars, Gold Roll employees were paid in gold, in American currency, while their Silver Roll counterparts were paid in silver coin, initially in Colombian pesos.

Yorke's first payment for the film came in the form of Colombian pesos and was less than what had been agreed upon.

As of May 2010, up to 1, 500 buses were circulating on the troncal system and the fare is 1750 Colombian pesos for a single trip ( about EUR 0. 75 or USD 1, as of January 2012 ).

The price of the ticket is 1750 Colombian pesos ( approximately US $ 0. 85 ) which is more expensive than a ticket of a metro system like Buenos Aires.

As 20 July 2011, the exchange rate of the Colombian peso is 1750 Colombian pesos to 1 U. S. dollar.

Since 2001, the Colombian senate has debated whether to redenominate the currency by introducing a new peso worth 1000 old pesos.

One of the detainees allegedly stated that they had been offered 500, 000 Colombian pesos to work on the farm.

* The main plaza is featured on the Colombian ten-thousand pesos bill.

The strength of the FARC – EP forces is indeterminate ; in 2007, the FARC said they were an armed force of 18, 000 men and women ; in 2010, the Colombian military calculated that FARC forces consisted of approximately 18, 000 members, 50 per cent of which were armed guerrilla combatants ; and, in 2011, the President of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, said that the FARC – EP forces comprised fewer than 8, 000 members.

Given the above-mentioned considerations, many critics of coca eradication believe the fundamental goal of the U. S. government is to constrict the flow of income to the Colombian Marxist rebel movement, FARC, which is heavily funded by the illegal drug trade, rather than combating drugs per se.

After a 7, 000 feet per minute dive with engines in a flight idle or near flight idle condition, the plane crashed at about 03: 45 local time ( 07: 45 UTC ) into a field on a cattle ranch near Machiques, in the western Zulia State, Venezuela ( about 30 kilometres from the Colombian border ).

Her foundation is now training students in the repair and maintenance of computers and is offering contracts for maintenance and repair to other Colombian towns and entities with One Laptop per Child.

The archipelago has been under Colombian control since 1931 when a treaty was signed during US occupation of Nicaragua, giving Colombia control over the islands.

Among other policy recommendations the US team advised that " in order to shield the interests of both Colombian and US authorities against ' interventionist ' charges any special aid given for internal security was to be sterile and covert in nature.

As of 2000, Cooper City had the sixty-fifth highest percentage of Cuban residents in the US, at 5. 29 % of the city's population ( tied with West Palm Beach ,) and it had the ninety-second highest percentage of Colombian residents in the US, which made up 1. 78 % of all residents ( tied with Pinecrest and South Bound Brook, New Jersey.

As of 2000, before West Park annexed it, the Miami Gardens section had the 103rd highest percentage of Colombian residents in the US, with 1. 63 % of the US populace.

As of 2000, Bisacyne Park had the seventy-third highest percentage of Colombian residents in the US, with 2. 05 % of the US populace.

The Carol City neighborhood of Miami Gardens is also home to the seventieth highest percentage of Colombian residents in the US, at 2. 15 % of the population.

It had the seventeenth highest percentage of Nicaraguan residents in the US, at 2. 27 % of the population, and the ninety-seventh highest percentage of Colombian residents in the US, at 1. 70 % of its population.

It had the seventh highest percentage of Colombian residents in the US, at 8. 63 % of the population, the twenty-eighth highest percentage of Dominicans in the US, with 3. 61 %, and the fiftieth highest percentage of Haitian residents in the US, at 3. 10 % ( tied with Hempstead, New York.

) It had the thirty-third highest percentage of Cuban residents in the US, at 15. 20 % of the city's population, and the sixth highest percentage of Colombian residents in the US, at 8. 71 % of the its population.

It had the eleventh highest percentage of Colombian residents in the US, at 7. 07 % of the village's population, and the fourteenth highest percentage of Peruvian residents in the US, at 2. 48 % of its population ( tied with Glen Cove, New York.

It had the seventy-second highest percentage of Colombian residents in the US, at 2. 09 % of the town's population, and the twenty-third highest percentage of Nicaraguan residents in the US, at 2 % of the its population.

) It had the twenty-seventh highest percentage of Colombian residents in the US, at 4. 43 % of the town's population, and the twelfth highest percentage of Cuban residents in the US, at 42. 28 % of the its population.

As of 2000, Miami Shores had the 102nd highest percentage of Colombian residents in the US, with 1. 64 % of the US populace.

The craft made the familiar unwelcome flight to Havana, where, for some unknown reason, Castro rushed to the airport to express mortification to the Colombian foreign minister, a passenger, who is not an admirer of old Ten O'Clock Shadow.

A Colombian female's brood of sixteen boa constrictors born in the Staten Island Zoo averaged 20 inches.

* 1949 – Ricardo Londoño, Colombian race car driver ( d. 2009 )

* 1925 – Guillermo Cano Isaza, Colombian journalist ( d. 1986 )

* 1852 – Clímaco Calderón, Colombian lawyer and politician, 15th President of Colombia ( d. 1913 )

Vine of the Soul: Medicine Men, Their Plants and Rituals in the Colombian Amazonia.

The tragic tale of the Mexican colony on Clipperton Island has been the subject of several novels, including Ivo Mansmann's Clipperton, Schicksale auf einer vergessenen Insel (" Clipperton, Destinies on a Forgotten Island "); ISBN 3-354-00709-5 ( in German, no English translation available ) and Colombian writer Laura Restrepo's La Isla de la Pasión in the Spanish language.

Still, this policy makes food cheaper for the average Colombian than it would be if agricultural trade were more restricted.

Major international credit rating organizations have dropped Colombian sovereign debt below investment grade, primarily as a result of large fiscal deficits, which current policies are seeking to close.

Since being liberalized in 1991, the Colombian telecommunications sector has added new services, expanded coverage, improved efficiency, and lowered costs.

However, according to 2005 data reported by the Colombian government, the road network totaled 163, 000 kilometers, 68 percent of which were paved and in good condition.

Highways are managed by the Colombian Ministry of Transport through the National Roads Institute.

The security of the highways in Colombia is managed by the Highway Police unit of the Colombian National Police.

A Colombian mummy from the Colombian National Museum in Bogotá.

Two political parties grew out of conflicts between the followers of Bolívar and Santander and their political visions — the Conservatives and the Liberals – and have since dominated Colombian politics.

Although the system established by the Sitges agreement was phased out by 1974, the 1886 Colombian constitution — in effect until 1991 — required that the losing political party be given adequate and equitable participation in the government which, according to many observers and later analysis, eventually resulted in some increase in corruption and legal relaxation.

Under the latest such decree, president Turbay had implemented security policies that, though of some military value against the M-19 in particular, were considered highly questionable both inside and outside Colombian circles due to numerous accusations of military human rights abuses against suspects and captured guerrillas.

As these events were developing, the growing illegal drug trade and its consequences were also increasingly becoming a matter of widespread importance to all participants in the Colombian conflict.

Pressure from the U. S. government and critical sectors of Colombian society was met with further violence, as the Medellín Cartel and its hitmen, bribed or murdered numerous public officials, politicians and others who stood in its way by supporting the implementation of extradition of Colombian nationals to the U. S. Victims of cartel violence included Justice Minister Rodrigo Lara, assassinated in 1984, an event which made the Betancur administration begin to directly oppose the drug lords.