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Dow Has Certified Barranquilla, Colombia based Tecnoglass (NASDAQ: TGLS) and affiliated company C.I. Energia Solar as obtaining the highest level of quality in application of Dow’s Silicone products in insulated glass and architectural glass applications. Tecnoglass was certified...

During a “Construyendo País” workshop last Saturday in Inírida, the remote capital of Colombia’s Guainía Department, ICT minister Sylvia Constain said that the process of structuring the spectrum auction in the 700 and 1900 megahertz (MHz) bands will have a greater impact on such...

The Holberton School, a college alternative for training software engineers, last week announced that it has opened a campus in Medellín, it’s second Colombia campus after opening one in the capital of Bogotá. Holberton provides what it calls “Silicon-Valley grade” peer-learning...

The Official Aviation Guide of The Airways’ (OAG) ‘On-Time Performance Airlines’ report has recognized Viva Air as the most punctual airline in Colombia and the third in Latin America and the Caribbean with 92% punctuality, as of May 2019. This statistic was derived...

After five years without any new signed hydrocarbons exploration and production contracts, Colombia’s ANH (National Hydrocarbons Agency) in charge of the allocation of oil fields for production, achieved a historic success rate of 55% of the areas offered. Two continental blocks,...

Fitch Ratings has downgraded  Avianca Holding’s  (NYSE: AVH) (BVC: PFAVH),Long-Term Foreign and Local Currency Issuer Default Ratings (IDRs) to ‘B-‘ from ‘B’ and its USD $550 million senior unsecured notes to ‘CCC+’/’RR5’ from...

Frontera Energy Corporation (TSX: FEC) on May 29 held its annual general and special meeting of shareholders where each of the seven nominees proposed as directors and listed in the Frontera’s management proxy circular dated April 18, 2019 were elected as directors. A total of...

After the close of last month’s Customer Experience Summit organized by outsourcing industry association BPro (formerly ACDECC), the association announced the signing of trade agreements for approximately USD $8.2 million dollars between buyers and sellers of contact center and...

For the second year in a row I had the opportunity to the Customer Experience Summit in Bogota, Colombia, organized by the Colombian BPO and Call Center Association now called BPro. This year, the 16th Customer Experience Summit also incorporated the 9th Annual Awards for...

Australis Partners, an independent private equity firm focused on Latin America, in association with Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), a Canadian institutional investor and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, today finalized...