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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 earn a little more in their salary. Every year, nations...

Colombia and Venezuela reopen border crossing after 7 years

QCOLOMBIA - Colombia and Venezuela on Monday, September 26, 2022, reopened their border after...
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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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Colombian Coyotes Smuggled South Asian Migrants

Authorities in Colombia have broken up a human smuggling ring that transported Nepalese and Bangladeshi migrants into Central America, highlighting the apparent growth in...

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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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...
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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...

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...

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...

President Duque: “Colombia to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 51% by 2030”

QCOLOMBIA - President Iván Duque, during his participation on Monday in the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, announced the strategy "Path to Zero",...

President Duke and Joe Biden meet for the first time at COP26 in Glasgow

QCOLOMBIA - On the second day of the United Nations conference on climate change (COP26) that's taking place in Glasgow, Scotland, Colombia's President Iván...

Colombia captures its most wanted drug lord ‘Otoniel’

QCOLOMBIA - Colombian authorities said on Saturday they captured Dairo Antonio Usuga, the country's biggest drug trafficker. Usuga, better known by his alias "Otoniel," is...

Canceled euthanasia: Martha Sepúlveda was ready to die on Sunday

QCOLOMBIA - 51-year-old Martha Sepúlveda, diagnosed with ALS, had been slated to become the first person in Colombia without a terminal prognosis to die...

Venezuela and Colombia to reopen borders

QCOLOMBIA - Venezuela is to reopen its border with Colombia, Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez said in a state television address on Monday, October...

5 years after FARC deal, peace remains elusive

QCOLOMBIA - In September 2016, the Colombian government signed a peace deal with the rebel group FARC. A look at the guerrillas who started...
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