Colombia’s national government has successfully completed negotiations to bring to an end a six-week miners’ strike and a two-week strike organized by indigenous people in the southwest of the country.
In order to stop a two-week long truckers strike, Colombia’s government has offered to freeze fuel prices. According to the truckers this is a “band-aid solution.”
Strikes are causing massive losses in food and other goods as costs rise to $148.8 million, according to local media reports.
As Colombia’s peso reaches the government’s target exchange rate against the dollar, the Andean country’s manufacturing contracted in output for the seventh time over an eight-month stretch.
CEO Howard Schultz of Seattle-based coffee giant Starbucks visited Colombia on Monday to promote Starbucks’ new wave of stores in the coffee-producing country.
Colombia’s Finance Minister on Saturday said that the Pacific Alliance is “one voice in the development of four economies.”
Colombia will host the sixth edition of an important hotel and tourism conference.
Colombia’s trade minister said on Wednesday that his country is set to become the third largest producer of leather goods in Latin America by 2018.
Colombia government financial watchdog reported strong losses in the country’s pension funds over the first half of this year, according to data released recently by the country’s Financial Superintendent.