Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos is looking to reform a 1994 law prohibiting vacant lands from being acquired by private enterprises. The president wants to reserve this land for land…
The external debt burden on Colombia rose 15.6% in the first half of 2014 compared to the same time last year, growing as much as 24.4% of the country’s GDP.
Bogota Mayor Gustavo Petro burnt through another of his government secretaries, local media reported on Tuesday. Hugo Zarrate is the fourth to resign since Petro’s installment in January 2012.
Colombia and Peru, two of the Andean regions most promising economies, have signed agreements on a range of economic and social issues, enabling much closer cooperation on “governance and social…
Bogota mayor Gustavo Petro sent 10 of 185 buses to the city’s mass transit system in an effort to improve the Colombian capital’s saturated public transportation.
Colombia’s August unemployment levels fell to their lowest since 2000, said government statistics agency DANE on Tuesday.
In order to reinforce a struggling export sector, Colombia’s government is creating a $175 million direct credit line for companies engaged in “producing, marketing or promoting goods and services allocated for…
The engineer investigating faulty construction methods in Medellin that has defrauded 3,000 locals has fled to the United States after receiving numerous threats related to his investigative work.
Colombia’s national government has approved the use of fracking, a highly controversial drilling technique for extracting deeply buried natural gas deposits, in a bid to increase its reserves and sustain…