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Colombia’s informal labor rate drops to 50.8%

The percentage of people working in Colombia’s urban informal sector has dropped to 50.8% in March-May from 51.4% the same period last year, Colombia’s statistics bureau reported Tuesday. According to statistic...

Social Security weighed down with 75,000 pending claims

Colombia’s Institute of Social Security (ISS) is bogged down with 75,000 claims from customers totalling over $550,000 reported the entity’s president, Silvia Helena Ramirez. Plaintiffs allege irregularities in the...

31% government subsidies go to upper classes

Nearly one-third of Colombian government subsidies for the poor end up in the pockets of the upper class, the country’s development agency said Thursday. In a report, development agency Fedesarollo said that 40% of the...

Former airliner employees threaten suicide

Former employees of Colombian airliner AeroCondor threaten to kill themselves if they don’t get paid their pensions, 20 years after the airliner’s bankruptcy, a local newspaper reported Sunday. According to newspaper...

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