Colombia to delay $2.44B in spending due to oil price fall
Colombia will delay spending $2.44 billion (6 trillion pesos), some 3% of its national budget, due to a sharp fall in oil revenue, the government said on Saturday.
Colombia will delay spending $2.44 billion (6 trillion pesos), some 3% of its national budget, due to a sharp fall in oil revenue, the government said on Saturday.
The United States moved on Friday to play a more direct role in Colombia’s peace talks, naming Bernard “Bernie” Aronson, a former US assistant secretary of state for Inter-American Affairs,…
Colombia’s Marxist FARC rebels have freed a soldier captured during an attack on a military patrol last week in which five other troops were killed, the group said on Friday.
Ten people, including five children, were killed in a plane crash in Colombia on Wednesday minutes after its crew signaled mechanical problems, the civil aviation authority said.
Colombia’s central bank held its benchmark interest rate steady on Thursday, meeting market expectations, as benign inflation allows policymakers to maintain their economic stimulus while global conditions remain uncertain.
Colombia must invest at least $44.4 billion to implement a peace deal with Marxist rebels to end a 50-year conflict, said a senator who backs the current peace talks, adding the…
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colombia’s most renowned writer in recent history, has died in Mexico after a long fight against cancer, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos announced Thursday.
Colombia’s FARC guerrillas have freed a former U.S. marine who was kidnapped in June while he trekked through the jungle in a known guerrilla area, the International Committee of the…
Nearly a year after starting peace talks with left-wing FARC guerrillas, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said on Saturday that negotiations have not progressed as quickly as he had hoped.