Uribe calls on producers to lower food prices
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe Tuesday called on the country’s producers and retailers of food to lower prices to reduce poverty. The Head of State said so while attending the 50th…
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe Tuesday called on the country’s producers and retailers of food to lower prices to reduce poverty. The Head of State said so while attending the 50th…
The Colombian government is studying market conditions to sell $1 billion in international bonds after September to help meet its financing requirements for 2010, the country’s director of public credit…
Colombia’s largest airline, Avianca SA, sold 500 billion Colombian pesos (US$247.5 million) worth of local bonds on Tuesday to finance the purchase of Airbus jets and to pay debt. Avianca,…
Colombia’s foreign direct investment will reach $9 billion in full-year 2009, down from 2008, Finance Minister Oscar Zuluaga said on Tuesday. Foreign direct investment was about $10.5 billion last year.…
Inhabitants in the north of Colombia are blocking an important road to Venezuela to protest against high tolls between coastal city Santa Marta and the Guajira department. Organizers of the…
Ecopetrol SA, Colombia’s state- controlled oil company, signed a five-year collective labor agreement with workers. The union, called Union Sindical Obrera, will receive a wage increase of 6.02 percent in…
Venezuela could substitute everything it buys from Colombia with imports from other countries, a top official said on Thursday, escalating a feud that will likely slash the US$7 billion of…
Colombia’s industrial production fell more-than-expected in June, as trade restrictions imposed by Venezuela took a toll on auto output and a weak economy weighed on domestic demand. Industrial production, excluding…
Emerald Energy Ltd said on Thursday its well no.6 in the Capella field in Colombia encountered net potential hydrocarbon level much higher than the previously recorded levels in the field.…