Colombia suspends Ecopetrol executives, investigates CEO over oil spill
Colombia’s Inspector General said Thursday that he will investigate the CEO of state-run oil...
Tag: Juan Carlos Echeverry
President of Colombia’s state-run oil company Ecopetrol resigns
The CEO of Ecopetrol has resigned two and a half years after assuming that...
Colombia state oil chief apologizes for being a condescending jerk in fracking debate
The chief of Colombia’s state-run oil company was forced to make a public apology after insulting a university professor by claiming the scholar was below “my own level.” Ecopetrol chief Juan Carlos Echeverry,...
Can Colombia afford to stop fracking faced with plummeting oil revenue?
Colombia cannot afford to stop fracking, according to state-run oil company Ecopetrol, alarming...
Santos names former finance minister Colombia’s next IADB representative
President Juan Manuel Santos announced Monday that Colombia’s former finance minister will...
InterBolsa scandal involves top govt officials
A Colombian congressman on Thursday claimed that government financial regulators failed to adequately monitor InterBolsa, which used to be the country’s largest brokerage firm until its recent liquidation, because several...
‘Argentina’s economy is bigger than that of Colombia’
In what has turned into a schoolboy spat about who has the bigger economy, Argentina’s finance minister has posted a flurry of angry tweets aimed at Colombia’s former finance minister Juan Carlos Echeverry. Echeverry...
Colombia has overtaken Argentina as LatAm’s 3rd economy: Minister
Colombia has overtaken Argentina and is now Latin America’s third largest economy after Brazil and Mexico, claimed outgoing Finance Minister Juan Carlos Echeverry Friday. According to the outgoing minister,...
Colombia’s finance minister replaced
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Thursday accepted the resignation of Finance Minister Juan Carlos Echeverry, who will be replaced by current Mining Minister Mauricio Cardenas. Echeverry’s resignation came as a...
Colombia prepared itself for Euro crisis: Finance Minister
Colombia’s finance minister said Tuesday his country has been preparing to meet fallout from Europe’s economic crisis, but expects to take a hit. With a 4.7 percent GDP growth in the first financial quarter, Colombia...
Colombian minister to be investigated for the misappropriation of public funds
The Prosecutor General’s Office announced plans Thursday to investigate Colombia’s Finance Minister for allegedly misappropriating public funds to a private company for the construction and operation of a famous...
Colombia’s credit rating unlikely to change this year: S&P
U.S. financial services company Standard & Poor’s (S&P) announced Thursday that it will likely maintain Colombia’s current credit rating for 2012. The director of S&P’s Latin American operations, Victor...
