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According to aviation publication Simple Flying, LATAM Airlines (NYSE:LTM, IPSA: LTM) has reduced its order for Airbus A350 XWB aircraft from 25 to 15.

Not long after a bitter strike, Avianca is facing renewed labor unrest, this time from Airbus pilots in Peru who claim that Avianca is using the Coronavirus Pandemic to escape from a negotiated early retirement buyout with pilots in the neighboring country.

Medellín’s entrepreneurship incubator Ruta-N has launched a participatory initiative that seeks to generate rapid solutions that contribute to prevention, care and control of the COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic.

El Roble mine production in Chocó, Colombia for the quarter totaled 4.93 million pounds of copper and 2,736 ounces of gold in concentrates, an increase of 108% and 85% for copper and gold, respectively, over the same period in 2019.

The Colombian government received a disbursement of $250 million USD from the World Bank. Colombian authorities declared a State of National Emergency on March 17 to address the Coronavirus COVID-19 Pandemic

Colombian senator, former mayor of Bogotá, and ex revolutionary militant Gustavo Petro is slated to undergo an operation today in Cuba to remove esophageal cancer.

Today, Medellín Mayor Daniel Quintero announced the appointment of Eleonora Betancur González as the new executive director of ACI Medellín, the city’s investment promotion agency.

CAFAM opened a new hospital today in the north of Bogotá, Colombia.

Gran Colombia Gold & Caldas Gold are partnering with local charities, the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, and the Clinica Universitaria Bolivariana to provide relief during the Coronavirus COVID-19 Pandemic