Landslide closes main road to Colombia’s poverty-stricken west for a year
A four-mile stretch on the main highway between the impoverished west of the country and Medellin will be closed for about one year as a result of a huge landslide,…
A four-mile stretch on the main highway between the impoverished west of the country and Medellin will be closed for about one year as a result of a huge landslide,…
Bogota’s Chamber of Commerce said Tuesday that the business group has launched a project to help Venezuelan refugees find work in Colombia. “The arrival of migrants must be seen as…
Colombia’s President Ivan Duque has launched his National Development Plan that sets out socio-economic spending for his administration. The $325 billion spending plan determines how the Duque administration plans to…
Colombia ‘s government hinted last week that it will permit fracking by foreign oil companies, despite the comptroller’s office warning this would have “catastrophic and irreversible” consequences. Making the rounds…
Medellin energy company EPM said Monday that it is forced to sell its shares in energy company ISAGEN after alleged mismanagement and corruption got the company in trouble. The company…
More than 50,000 people reportedly took to the streets in northeast Colombia on Friday in an attempt to end a $1 billion gold mining project they say will pollute their…
President Ivan Duque courted tech giants in Silicon Valley on Wednesday, hoping they will invest in Colombia. Duque visited Apple, Cisco, Google, and Microsoft in Silicon Valley and Seattle with…
The former head of Colombia’s mining association ACM and CEO of gold mining firm Minesa has been caught on video saying that “communities don’t matter” for decision makers in Bogota…
Colombia is not prepared to begin fracking and should at least temporarily ban the controversial activity, the country’s comptroller general said in a report on Thursday. According to the comptroller…