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Colombia has one of the lowest minimum wages in Latin America

Economy

Colombia has one of the lowest minimum wages in Latin America

QCOLOMBIA - 2023 starts and with it many of the workers will begin to...

News

Colombia and Venezuela reopen border crossing after 7 years

QCOLOMBIA - Colombia and Venezuela on Monday, September 26, 2022, reopened their border after years of impasse. The reopening was a key campaign promise of...

News

Colombia Restores Diplomatic Ties With Venezuela

QCOLOMBIA (VOA) Venezuela and Colombia restored full diplomatic relations Sunday after a three-year break, as a new leftist government in Bogota takes shape. A new...

News

ELN rebels release hostages while returning to peace talks

QCOLOMBIA (Mercopress) As peace negotiations between the Colombian Government and the National Liberation Army (ELN) kick off in Cuba, the guerrilla movement has released...

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...

Travel

Arajet Begins Ticket Sales in Colombia

QCOLOMBIA - The first flight of the ultra-low-cost startup airline Arajet is scheduled for September 15th, leaving Santo Domingo at 6:30 am bound 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 Monday to discuss common goals with the incoming administration which...

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...

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Bogota Plans To Use Marijuana To Fight Drug Addiction: Report

Rico - April 4, 2013 0

Could marijuana solve Colombia's crack cocaine problem? That's the hope of city officials in Bogota, who are contemplating a novel solution to a dangerous...

5 Colombians murdered in Venezuela

Rico - March 10, 2014 0

As Colombia took to the polls for its congressional elections Sunday, the remains of five murdered Colombian citizens were being discovered across the Venezuelan...

800 arrested in one of Colombia’s largest operations against drug dealing

Q Colombia - August 3, 2015 0

Colombia Reports Almost a thousand raids have resulted in the arrest of over 800 individuals responsible for drug dealing in schools and universities across western and central Colombia. “The...

Colombia’s coffee sector woes continue

Rico - June 29, 2012 0

Colombia’s minister of agriculture said Wednesday that it is imperative the country changes the course of its declining coffee production. Minister Juan Camilo Restrepo Salazar...

Bogota is 12,000 policemen short: Mayor

Q Colombia - May 5, 2015 0

Bogota has a deficit of 12,000 policemen, the mayor of Colombia’s capital city said Monday. Mayor Gustavo Petro said that the city requires a total of...

Mothers breastfed in Public in Colombia Looking For World Record

Rico - August 3, 2014 0

Some 100 mothers breastfed their children in outdoors in Medellin in order to break the world record set by the international movement The Big...

Colombia Rejects Appeal to Revise ICJ Ruling

Rico - January 7, 2014 0

The leader of the Colombian government team of jurists in the maritime dispute with Nicaragua, Carlos Arrieta, said today that the appeal to revise...

Colombia’s state council stops construction in Bogota’s eastern hills

Rico - November 5, 2013 0

Colombia’s state council has declared an area of 2315 acres as part of a forest reserve in the eastern hills of Bogota, putting a stop to future...

Colombia’s San Andres hit by homicides, disappearances

Q Colombia - September 1, 2014 0

Colombia’s chief of police travelled to San Andres on Monday in response to a recent wave of violence on the small caribbean island, according to official sources. General Rodolfo Palomino arrived...

Government, FARC Resume Peace Talks

Rico - June 18, 2014 0

COLOMBIA NEWS - The Colombian government resumed its path toward peace with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) on June 16, bolstered by...

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Lighter Side

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‘Neiva is 4th Largest in Buying apparel in Colombia’

Entertainment

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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...

News

In the liberated land of the Colombian comuneros

QCOLOMBIA (IlManifesto) Cauca is the cradle of the culture of the original Nasa people in Colombia, an Andean region that has been and continues...

2022 Elections

Francia Márquez, the voice of the “nobodies”

QCOLOMBIA - Raised fist, discreet smile, African attire. Environmental lawyer Francia Márquez overcame Colombia's hidden racism and became this Sunday the first Afro-descendant elected...

2022 Elections

A divided Colombia begins its transition to its first leftist government

QCOLOMBIA - Colombia began the transition to its first leftist government at the hands of senator and former guerrilla Gustavo Petro, who proposed a...

Health

Covid-19 vaccine will be mandatory in Colombia

QCOLOMBIA - In the framework of the new decisions that the national government is making in response to how to address the omicron variant,...

Health

Nine tourists rejecred for not meeting the requirements to enter Colombia

QCOLOMBIA - On Tuesday, December 14, the measure that requires international travelers to have a covid-19 vaccination card or certificate to enter Colombia by...

Health

Colombia to require negative PCR test or vaccination certificate

QCOLOMBIA - Travelers to Colombia must present a negative covid-19 PCR test or a vaccination certificate starting today, December 14, 2021. The PCR test must...

Health

Colombia will apply third dose of covid-19 vaccine to population over 50 years old starting today

QCOLOMBIA - Colombian Health authorities will begin this Friday the application of the booster dose against covid-19 in the population over 50 years of...