President Ivan Duque announced a $1.5 billion injection into Colombia’s healthcare system and emergency subsidies for the poor on Sunday as the country is set to go into quarantine to…
Colombia’s President Ivan Duque raised the country’s monthly minimum wage 6% to almost $268 (COP877,803) after employers and labor unions failed to come to an agreement. The labor unions, emboldened…
Almost half of Colombia’s population has said they struggled to afford food over the past year as the perceived wealth gap widened, according to Gallup. The poll on income inequality…
After a year of inaction, Colombia’s Family Welfare Institute (ICBF) promised to help an indigenous community on the border with Venezuela after footage of children eating from a garbage dump…
Poverty and child mortality increased in Colombia in 2018, according to the government. Statistics agency DANE said Friday that the country’s poverty rate increased slightly last year to 27%. Poverty…
Millions in Colombia who make minimum wage, and some even less, have gone from “lower class” to “middle class” overnight. The new measures used by the country’s statistics agency DANE…
While Colombia’s government is reluctant to invest in the country’s peace process, communities in the capital Bogota are enthusiastically building peace themselves. From high up on the edge of the…
Ten infants died of malnutrition in just one week in Colombia’s most northern province, according to a local social leader. The ten infants belonged to the indigenous Wayuu nation that…
Colombia’s government doesn’t just want to impose an 18% sales tax on basic food products, but also on school books and newspapers. The controversial tax reform presented to Congress by…