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After the first COVID-19 tax holiday was condemned as irresponsible, the Colombian government is restricting electronics & appliance sales during the next two tax holidays taking place in July where shoppers will be exempt from the country's 19% VAT tax.

President Ivan Duque announced a further extension to Colombia’s national curfew in response to the Coronavirus COVID-19 Pandemic to July 15 in Decree 878 of June 25, but also modified Decree 847 of June 14, allowing limited pilots of restaurant and church reopenings.

In July, 5 companies will begin 5G network trials in the Colombian cities of Medellín, Bogotá, Tolú, Barrancabermeja, and Cali. Meanwhile the country announced a strategy to move consumers at least to 4G and dismantle the aged 2G mobile telecommunications network.

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington is forecasting nearly 388,300 people will die from COVID-19 in Latin American and Caribbean nations by October 1. Brazil is expected to exceed 166,000 deaths and Mexico 88,000. Six other...

Fitch says Movistar has a diversified service portfolio with a national footprint and improving 4G and fiber broadband networks. Mobile accounts for approximately 60% of revenues in 2019, in line with the regional median.

A bilateral trade agreement between Colombia and the United Kingdom has passed in Colombia’s plenary senate session and now passes to the Andean nation’s lower house for approval.

Headquartered in Barranquilla, Colombia, the Company operates out of a 2.7 million square foot vertically integrated, state- of-the-art manufacturing complex that provides easy access to the Americas, the Caribbean, and the Pacific.

The number of defaults in 2020 is on pace to exceed that of 2019 with indications there will be more to follow, given 6 group-level defaults YTD compared with 6 in all of 2019, and the high number of ratings at ‘CCC’ or below categories.

The study revealed that 66% of the surveyed businesspeople were optimistic regarding the operations of their companies in Colombia, while 30% feel the same in respect to the performance of the economy in general.

Viva Air ha tomado medidas para volar de nuevo, y proteger sus pasajeros y tripulación. Gracias a sus nuevos protocolos de bioseguridad, a la limpieza constante de sus aviones y a los filtros especiales HEPA del aire en las cabinas, el riesgo de contagio de Covid-19 se reduce al...