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According to a report by Bloomberg, major global and regional banks, both commercial and investment, are looking to increase their stakes and presence in Colombia. Among them, Brasil’s Itaú is said to be purchasing Chilean Corpbanca SA, which recently purchased the majority...

Mintrabajo, Colombia’s ministry of labor, announced that the monthly minimum wage throughout the country will be set at $644,350 pesos per month, an increase of 4.6%. The labor minister, Luis Eduardo Garzón, announced that the increase was higher than in previous years, thus...

According to the Fiscalia General (Federal Prosecutor’s Office) on December 12, 2014, Prosecutor, Pedro David Berdugo Salcedo; CTI investigator, Harold Mauricio Sánchez Hernández, and accountant Over José Ospino González were conferred the Enrique Low Murtra medal in...

According to reports in El Tiempo, the former mayor of Milán, Caquetá is being extradited to the US to face charges for narcotics trafficking. Jhon Eduarth Monje Alvarado has been indicted by a Texas court of belonging to an organized trafficking ring that has moved close to 100...

Friday January 16th at 3:14 p.m., the first Boeing B787-8 of Avianca departed from the El Dorado International Airport in Bogotá en route to New York with 236 passengers and 10 crew. On board this sophisticated aircraft, passengers of route AV 244 will enjoy a more comfortable...

Today, at an event in Bogotá, Colombia, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and President Juan Manuel Santos announced the availability of Facebook’s Internet.org app for Tigo customers in Colombia. Zuckerberg hosted a live question & answer session ...

Photo credit: Loren Moss According to statistics released by DANE (National Department of Statistics), Colombia faced a 2014 inflation rate of 3.66%, an increase of 88% over 2013. The government statistics are important because many charges are set and adjusted annually based on...

In December 2014, and in just 13 days, Avianca received delivery of its first four Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft. This signals the end of the first phase of incorporation of the Dreamliners. The remaining aircraft will be incorporated into the fleet between 2015 and 2019....

UPDATE: Patty Alcivar returns to the boxing ring , Friday, March 13, 2015 from 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM in Westbury, NY – Tickets and information here. Gold medalist boxer, Patricia Alcivar was born in Barranquilla, Atlántico, but moved with her parents to the USA when she was...

Hilton Worldwide recently opened their 123 room Hilton Garden Inn Barranquilla in Colombia’s most important coastal city. The hotel marks the first of Hilton’s Garden Inn brand in Colombia and is indicative of Hilton’s expansion strategy for Colombia, and Latin America at larg...