News

Gustavo Petro sworn in as president

QCOLOMBIA - Gustavo Petro, a former member of Colombia's M-19 guerrilla group, was inaugurated Colombia's first leftist president on Sunday at a ceremony in Bogota. Some 100,000 people, including Spanish King Felipe VI and at...

Travel

Arajet Begins Ticket Sales in Colombia

QCOLOMBIA - The first flight of the ultra-low-cost startup airline Arajet is scheduled for...

2022 Elections

Petro wants FTA with US repenned

QCOLOMBIA (MercoPress) Colombia's President-elect Gustavo Petro and US Ambassador to Bogotá Francisco Palmieri met...

colombia business

Colombia’s Industrial output shows sharp increase

Q24N (MercoPress) Colombia's National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE) Friday issued a report showing that the country's industrial output during the month of May...

Medellin

Medellin #3 in Time Out’s top 10 best cities

QCOLOMBIA - Every year, Time Out quizzes thousands of city-dwellers worldwide about life in their hometown right now, wanting to know about the restaurant...

News

What you should know about the visa to enter Europe from 2023

Q TRAVEL - Citizens of at least 60 countries traveling to Europe will need, starting in 2023 an authorization to enter the European Union....

Latin America

Pandemic generated the loss of 25 million jobs in Latin America

Q24N (EFE) The covid-19 pandemic generated the loss of 25 million jobs and 3 million closed companies in Latin America and the Caribbean. This was...

Politics

Petro discusses reopening borders with Maduro

QCOLOMBIA - Colombia's President-elect Gustavo Petro Wednesday announced he had contacted Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro to discuss the reopening of the border between the...

Colombia’s James Rodriguez voted World Cup’s best player by fans, beating out Golden Ball-winner Lionel Messi

Colombia’s star midfielder James Rodriguez was voted as the best player in the World Cup...

Medellin

Medellin: An Escalator to Opportunity

Colombia Reports

Falcao could play by start of World Cup: Doctor

Colombia Reports

Panama vows to share tax information with Colombia

Business & Economy

Colombia’s Other Copyright Bill: Moving Things In The Right Direction?

Colombia Reports

FARC attack caused Colombia’s ‘biggest environmental disaster in 10 years’

Dollar Exchange

US$1 = COP$3,936.41

15 December 2021- Central Bank Of Colombia

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Reports

Electric Vehicles

Why electric cars will take over sooner than you think

Q REPORTS (BBC) I know, you probably haven't even driven one yet, let alone seriously contemplated buying one, so the prediction may sound a bit bold, but bear with me. We are in the middle...

Reports

US still offers hope to Latin Americans fleeing violence

Q REPORTS - "Work, work, work!" That's the first thing Cesar Moncado thinks about when he wakes up in the morning. "That's the most important thing for me at the moment," the 38-year-old father...

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Go inside a COVID-19 response at the Venezuela-Colombia border

QCOLOMBIA (IRC) Before the coronavirus pandemic, around 40,000 Venezuelans would cross the Simón Bolívar International Bridge daily to work in Colombia or purchase scarce goods. Pregnant women walked miles to seek critical prenatal care...

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