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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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Colombia plans 185.5 trillion pesos in spending in 2013

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(Reuters) - Colombia plans budgetary spending for next year of 185.5 trillion pesos ($103 billion), 12.2 percent higher than in 2012, a senior government...

Microsoft opens office in Colombia to fight Latin American cyber crime

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Microsoft is opening an anti-cyber crime office in Colombia to work with authorities to help secure computers and information networks as part of Latin...

Colombian peso, stocks slide

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The Colombian peso dropped 0.5% against the dollar while stocks tracked by the country's Colcap Index dropped 0.77% Monday as markets worldwide responded to...

Colombia and Venezuela to crack down on smuggling

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The Colombian and Venezuelan Foreign Ministers met Thursday to develop “shock tactic” plans to end smuggling across the country’s shared border. Colombian Foreign Minister Maria...

Colombia to continue using controverial glysophate for coca eradication: Police

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Colombia Reports Colombia’s police will use pesticides from the ground to continue cracking down on coca cultivation after it was announced in Thursday that aerial...

Santos approval rating rises to 33%

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Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos’ approval rating has risen 8 points in the past two months, reaching 33 percent against 25 percent in August, according...

In spite of World Cup defeat against Brazil, Colombia finds reason to celebrate

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Colombia took to both the streets and social media to jointly lament their departure from the World Cup after losing to host Brazil, but also to...

Colombia govt imposes penalty for ‘squandering water’

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Colombian companies and individuals who “squander water” are to be charged double the rates beginning last Sunday, according to Colombia’s Regulatory Commission of Water and Sanitation agency...

Medellin, Colombia. What A Pleasant Surprise !

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By LimorGarf (CNN) - When you tell your friends that you’re going on vacation to Colombia, most will say; eieee, be careful, are you...

Curacao and Colombia have reached an agreement on exchanging tax information

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WILLEMSTAD – Minister of Finance, Dr. Jose Jardim was in Bogota, Colombia for a three day visit, in which he agreed on a treaty...

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