Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on Thursday explaining why he is negotiating with the country’s main rebel group FARC – considered terrorists…
Colombia’s second city Medellin has beaten Tel Aviv and New York Friday, to be named City of the Year, in a competition sponsored by the Wall Street Journal and Citigroup. By…
The Wall Street Journal largely attributed recent growth in the Colombian economy to a reduction in violence, Thursday. Colombia’s economy grew 5.9% in the last year with the nation’s GDP…
Bancolombia, Colombia’s largest bank, approved the issue of COP1.2 trillion worth of bonds or its equivalent in dollars, the Wall Street Journal reports. The board announced in a statement on…
Colombia’s state-run oil company Ecopetrol announced Monday that its proven oil reserves have increased by 35%, from 1.4 billion barrels in 2008 to nearly 1.9 billion barrels in 2009. The…
Negotiations between Colombian employer groups and trade unions over the country’s minimum wage ended Thursday without an agreement. The Colombian government will now set the country’s minimum wage for 2010…
