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Colombia has one of the lowest minimum wages in Latin America

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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’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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Soccer legend Carlos Valderrama heads Colombian tourism campaign

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A new campaign headed by retired Colombian soccer star Carlos Valderrama encourages tourists to visit Tayrona National Park in the northern Caribbean region of...

Inspector General asks ICC to intervene in Colombia if FARC is granted impunity

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Colombia’s inspector general asked the chief prosecutor and the vice-president of the International Criminal Court to intervene if his government grants impunity to rebel...

Colombian rule? Years of ‘gentlemen’s club’ membership pinned on US Secret Service

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A Secret Service Agent holds his tuxedo together as Marine One with US President Barack Obama lands on the South Lawn of the White House on...

War on Drugs left 1,800 cops dead in Colombia in 20 years

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Colombia Reports More than 1,800 policemen have died in Colombia in efforts to curb drug trafficking, according to the National Police. The commander of Bogota’s Public Security unit,...

Latin America’s Top 5 Most Dangerous Border Regions

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LATIN AMERICA NEWS - Many of Latin America's border regions are historically neglected by the state and prone to all types of organized crime,...

Colombia Car Sales Decline in July for Third-Straight Month

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BOGOTA--Colombian vehicle sales in July fell 2.6% compared with a year ago, the third-straight month of year-on-year monthly declines, as the country's once-robust economy...

Colombia’s indigenous communities call for “spiritual celebration for peace”

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The National Indigenous Organization of Colombia (ONIC) has announced all of Colombia’s indigenous people will be part of a “Ceremony for Spiritual Harmonization for...

Colombia Loses No. 1 Rank For Fake Dollars

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Peru has in the past two years overtaken Colombia as the No. 1 source of counterfeit U.S. dollars, says U.S. Secret Service The police Lima,...

Colombia’s ‘War on Contraband Fuel’ Highlights Lucrative Trade

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Authorities in Colombia have seized 34,000 gallons of contraband fuel and arrested 30 suspects, in a series of operations highlighting the extent of a...

Colombian Exports Register Major Drop in 2016 as Fuel and Manufacturing Suffer

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TODAY COLOMBIA - Colombia closed 2016 with a noticeable drop in exports in 2016, according to the National administrative Department of Statistics, having gone from US...

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