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Colombian authorities have discovered that an important water resource is under threat from illegal mining in a rural area of Cúcuta, revealing that the region is dealing with far more than the well publicized border crisis with Venezuela. In a visit to Palmarito, in the north of...

85 indigenous children belonging to the Emberá Chamí ethnic group in the the Hermeregildo Chakiama and the Bernardino Panchi reserves, near the rural municipalities of Pueblorrico and Ciudad Bolívar, southwest Antioquia, are now attending the new La Union and Ricardo González...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced in Bogotá yesterday that it would activate an edge location in Colombia by the end of 2019, making Colombia Amazon AWS’s first Latin American network access point outside of North America or Brazil. The cloud services and retail...

Medellín based low-cost airline Viva Air today in its Rionegro, Colombia headquarters outside of Medellín, finalized a $3.2 billion USD deal for the purchase and maintenance of LEAP-1A turbofan engines with jet engine provider CFM International. The engines are destined for the...

Banco de Bogotá, member of financial conglomerate Grupo Aval, was named as the “Best Bank in Colombia” for 2019 according to financial magazine Global Finance. The selection was made by the editors of Global Finance, after  consultations with financial executives,...

One of Italy’s oldest Tuscan vintners, the house of Frescobaldi, is now exporting several labels of its Italian wine to Colombia, via importer and distributor Pedro Domecq Colombia. Frasecobaldi, headed by family patriarch Lamberto Frescobaldi and his brother Vittorio, holds over...

Today the board of directors of Financiera de Desarrollo Nacional, Colombia’s national development finance entity that supports the financing of major public works projects announced that the agency’s president, Clemente del Valle Borráez (above photos) has stepped...

Today, Continental Gold (TSX:CNL OTCQX:CGOOF) shared a progress update with Finance Colombia and other news outlets. The Toronto based miner building the Buriticá gold mine near the town of the same name in Antioquia, Colombia announced that satisfactory progress is being made in...

Cali Colombia has long been recognized for its diverse business fabric; its disposition towards international markets; high levels of human capital development, attractiveness for foreign investment, an international airport; and nearby Buenaventura – the country’s main port on...

A delegation of 10 Canadian business executives from the Province of Quebec recently visited Medellín, accompanied by Export Quebec and led by Counselor for International Affairs Suzie Racine, for the purposes of connecting with construction industry executives in metropolitan...