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Distrito Capital y los Departamentos de Colombia ; Category: Unitary state: Location: Republic of Colombia: Number: 32 Departments 1 Capital District: Populations: 48,932 – 8,906,342 (Capital District) Areas: 50 km 2 (19.3 sq mi) (San Andrés) – 109,665.0 km 2 (42,341.89 sq mi) Government
The Embassy of the United States of America in Havana (Spanish: Embajada de los Estados Unidos de América, La Habana) is the United States of America's diplomatic mission in Cuba. On January 3, 1961, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower severed relations following the Cuban Revolution of the 1950s. [1]
Before 1990 public monopolies provided electric service. As a result of significant expansion of electricity-generation capacity between 1970 and 1990—financed mostly by foreign loans—and the inefficiencies in the provision of this service, by 1990 about one-third of the nation's public foreign debt was associated with the electricity sector.
Colombia–Cuba relations have a long history, as the two countries have shared political, economic, social and cultural relations since the time of colonialism in Latin America. Having a great exchange of knowledge and people in these territories, for this reason, the two countries and others joined in the fight for independence against the ...
Deforestation in Colombia in 2024 is expected to have reached a higher level than during the previous year but is still forecast to be among the lowest levels in more than two decades, Environment ...
The following is a list of ambassadors of the United States, or other chiefs of mission, to Colombia and its predecessor states. The title given by the United States State Department to this position is currently Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary.
The United States of Colombia (Spanish: Estados Unidos de Colombia) was the name adopted in 1863 [2] [3] by the Constitución de Rionegro for the Granadine Confederation, after years of civil war. Colombia became a federal state itself composed of nine "sovereign states.”
December 4 – 2024 Cuba blackout: The entire national power grid affecting more than 10 million citizens fails after the Antonio Guiteras thermoelectric plant collapses again. [12] December 30 – Raul Ernesto Cruz, a Salvadoran national convicted for his role in the 1997 Cuba hotel bombings, is released after serving a 30-year prison sentence ...