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One week ago last Sunday, Colombian voters went to the polls to choose mayors, neighborhood councils, city councils, and governors. With some notable exceptions, elections were mostly peaceful unlike past decades, but typical localized cases of vote buying and corruption were...

Apparently upset by news reports in Finance Colombia and elsewhere, Colombia’s Minister of Agriculture Andrés Valencia Pinzón (above, black suit) has stated that the ministry’s recent resolution 350 of 2019 does not encourage shark finning, the practice of cutting off the fins of...

Fitch Ratings has assigned a ‘C’/’RR4’ rating to Avianca Holdings S.A.’s (NYSE: AVH; BVC: PFAVH) $550 million USD senior secured notes due 2020. These notes are being received in exchange for $550 million of senior unsecured notes due 2020. The new...

Colombia’s Constitutional Court invalidated several articles of the President Ivan Duque’s “Ley de Financiamiento” fiscal reform law that was approved at the end of 2018 declaring them unenforceable. This means that the government has until January 1 2020 to return to...

On Bogotá’s famous Avenida Séptima (7th Avenue) in Colombia, about where it connects with 76th street near the Russian Embassy, a large mural was painted on a wall. The mural, since painted over, was graffiti art in opposition to “Fracking,” or Hydraulic Fracturing. Known within...