Colombia will fulfill its coffee shipment contracts despite scarcities and delays in deliveries and has 600,000 60-kg bags in inventories to cover its exports, the National Federation of Coffee Growers…
Relatives of dozens of slain Colombians sued an Alabama-based coal company in federal court Thursday, accusing it of making millions of dollars in payments to a paramilitary group that sowed…
Colombian ethanol output is expected to more than double to 2.42 million liters a day by the end of 2009 as new projects come onstream, Agriculture Minister Andres Fernandez Acosta…
Colombia, the world’s largest coffee producer after Brazil, will need to import coffee to meet the domestic demand, the country’s coffee export federation announced Monday. According to Asoexport director Jorge…
Coffee production in Colombia, the world’s number two producer of the beans, plunged 33 percent in the first four months of 2009, with exports sinking by 21 percent, officials said.…
Colombia’s workers unions reject the plan of President Alvaro Uribe for an unemployment insurance. According to Tarcisio Mora, chairman of Colombia’s largest union CUT, it would be unfair to let…
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe proposed that the management of unemployment insurance be moved from the private to the public sector. Uribe said that the State is not in a position…
The Colombian peso gained 1% against the dollar Wednesday morning, while the IGBC stock index climbed 1.5% in early trading amid appetite for Colombian assets. The Colombian peso traded at…
Banana workers in the north west of Colombia ended their strike after reaching a deal with employers on workers’ wages. Around 17,000 banana plantation workers started the strike on May…