Drummond strikes enter 3rd week as negotiations fail
Strikes that have halted the coal mining operations of multinational Drummond in northern Colombia will continue as negotiations failed on Tuesday.
Strikes that have halted the coal mining operations of multinational Drummond in northern Colombia will continue as negotiations failed on Tuesday.
Colombia’s finance minister on Tuesday met with his Venezuelan counterpart in Caracas to discuss Venezuela’s debt to Colombian exporters and smuggling.
Ongoing negotiations between Colombia’s government and small and medium-sized mining companies are complicated over the issue of formalizing recently started mining projects, the government said Monday.
Colombia’s iconic coffee farming communities are being threatened by mining, urbanization and sex tourism, a study group said on Monday.
The Washington D.C.-based World Bank on Monday signed an agreement with Colombia to provide assistance on the country’s tax collection.
Venezuela’s oil company PDVSA said Saturday that it will supply Colombia with more than 7 million gallons of oil per month, starting from August 15.
The price of coffee has fallen to its lowest level since 2008, spurring an urgency meeting between Colombian coffee farmers and the government, local media reported on Thursday.
An executive of Colombia’s central bank believes that the recent boom in the mining and oil sectors could be fading, reported newspaper El Espectador on Thursday.
Colombia has granted “national interest” status to 40 large-scale mining contracts owned by multinational corporations, effectively bypassing environmental regulations.