Conservative presidential candidate Marta Lucia Ramirez said she is planning to renegotiate peace talks with rebel group FARC in the event she is elected the country’s first-ever female president in…
Colombia’s FARC guerrilla group has demanded the suspension of hydroelectric programs and mining royalties, as part of their new proposal for mining and energy policy.
Subsidies to Colombia’s coffee farmers restarted after national coffee prices dropped 20% in seven straight days of falling prices.
Colombia has dropped 33 places in the 2014 world rankings of logistics and infrastructure and is now ranking 97, according to a World Bank Report.
Some 820,000 Colombians were lifted above the poverty line in 2013, the government statistics agency said Friday. The annual DANE report also showed a growing gap between rich and poor…
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos touted Colombia’s “healthy” economy in a forum Friday morning, pointing to high growth and low inflation as signs of sustainable progress.
Colombia is finally making a mark in global medical tourism, recording a 61% increase in the dollar value of the trade in 2013, according to government figures.
Colombia’s national government said Thursday that its economy had grown 4.3% in 2013.
Colombia’s coffee farmers continue to struggle, despite an 80% rise in global prices that has brought the commodity up to its most lucrative levels in the past two years.