Gold production in Colombia
Colombia is one of Latin America’s largest producers of gold, formally extracting 55.9 tons of the precious metal per year. However, the vast majority of gold mining in Colombia is informal,…
Colombia is one of Latin America’s largest producers of gold, formally extracting 55.9 tons of the precious metal per year. However, the vast majority of gold mining in Colombia is informal,…
The Pacific Alliance is a free trade agreement that, among other things, reduces tariffs for goods exchanged between its four member countries: Colombia, Peru, Chile and Mexico, joined by their…
A long running dispute between auto giant General Motors and former GM factory workers in Bogota heated up again at the company’s annual meeting in Detroit, when a shareholder publicly urged…
The Banco de la Republica, Colombia’s central bank, is one of the most important economic institutions in the country.
Amid a severe economic slowdown, Colombia’s inflation rate reached 8.2% in May, the highest it has been since 2001 when rates hit 8.49%.
Unless major investments are made, Colombia will run out of oil within six years, warned the president of Colombia’s oil industry association ACP. On Wednesday, association leader Francisco Lloreda said the country will…
Even though the “Panama Papers” revealed how Colombia’s elite systematically hid money from tax authorities in offshore tax havens, the same elite’s influence in media has prevented public outcry, according to the…
Colombia’s exports plummeted by 33.4% in March compared with the same month of 2015, according to the country’s statistics agency.
Mayor Enrique Peñalosa asked Bogota’s city council for permission to sell the government’s stock in telecommunication company ETB, just weeks after the privatization of an energy company caused major protests.