Colombia’s January unemployment rate up more than 1%
Colombia’s unemployment rate rose 1.1 percentage point to 11.9% in January compared to the same month last year, according to the country’s statistics agency.
Colombia’s unemployment rate rose 1.1 percentage point to 11.9% in January compared to the same month last year, according to the country’s statistics agency.
Pushed by a cheap peso, the number of foreign visitors to Colombia’s grew 12.2% in 2015 and a stunning 290% compared to a decade earlier, according to the country’s trade ministry statistics.
Six months after unilaterally closing the border with Colombia, Venezuela is considering to reverse the measure that severely strained relations between the neighbors.
More than 30 years after his death, prosecution investigators will exhume the body of former Colombian Justice Minister Rodrigo Lara, who was killed in 1984, possibly in conjunction with security officials.
Bogota’s Mayor has requested that citizens pay an additional 10% voluntary tax to tackle what he called a “security emergency” in Colombia’s capital.
Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos on Monday announced his administration has cut this year’s government budget with 3% amid an economic slowdown caused by a drop in global oil prices.
Drought caused by weather phenomenon El Niño is causing mass displacement in the north of Colombia where locals are struggling to have adequate access to drinking water and food, according…
Colombian prosecutors are investigating the alleged disappearance of as many as 100 people inside a Bogota prison more than 15 years ago.
Three years after forensic prosecutors began looking for unidentified corpses buried in municipal cemeteries, more than 28,000 unidentified bodies, mainly from conflict victims have been found.