Inter-American Development Bank partners need to bolster the lender’s capital to help Latin American economies weather the global economic crisis, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe said on Friday. A top regional…
A strike at U.S. coal miner Drummond’s operations in Colombia ended on Friday after a four-day work stoppage paralyzed production, union representative Joaquin Romero told press agency Reuters. The Sintramienergetica…
The Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) approved a US$1.3 billion credit for Colombia to be invested in the fight against unemployment and improvement of the infrastructure, Colombia’s Finance Minister Oscar Ivan…
Colombian President Álvaro Uribe called on the country’s commercial sector to create quality jobs Thursday to confront the economic crisis that turned Colombia’s 10-year economic growth into a contraction of…
The Colombian state-controlled oil company Ecopetrol SA will boost production to 531,000 barrels of oil equivalent a day in 2009, the company’s chief executive, Javier Gutierrez, said Thursday. The company…
The Colombian economy contracted in the last trimester of 2008 for the first time in ten years. The country’s GDP shrunk 0.7 percent amid a global economic crisis. Colombia’s economy…
A strike at U.S. coal miner Drummond’s operations in Colombia will continue until the company agrees to improves safety and increases benefits to the family of a worker recently killed…
The global financial crisis is affecting the Colombian economy, President Álvaro Uribe acknowledged Tuesday, but added it’s important to look forward. “My invitation to the Colombians (…) in the midst…
Cerrejon LLC, Colombia’s largest coal producer, expects to produce 32 million metric tons of coal a year in 2009 and 2010, up from 31.5 million metric tons in 2008, the…