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Montevideo, Uruguay based IT software outsourcing firm UruIT continues its growth, opening offices in Colombia’s capital of Bogotá; this after expanding into the Andean nation with Medellín offices in 2016. Primarily serving North American corporate clients from sales offices in...

Fitch Ratings has upgraded Colombia Telecomunicaciones S.A. E.S.P.’s (ColTel) Foreign Currency (FC) and Local Currency (LC) Issuer Default Ratings (IDR) to ‘BBB-‘ from ‘BB+’, the 2022 notes to ‘BBB-‘ from ‘BB+’, and the hybrid...

In the first half of 2019, the number of international visitors passing through Colombian immigration continues its upward trend, with 2,865,070 foreign nonresident visitors between January & August, according to Colombia’s Ministry of Commerce, Industry & Tourism...

Chevron Petroleum (NASDAQ: CVX), in conjunction with Colombia’s Green Heart Foundation (Fundación Corazón Verde), local construction company Constructora Capitál and the U.S. Embassy donated this week a new home in the Medellín suburb of Sabaneta to the widow and child of fallen...

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in sectors other than those of mines and energy, between January and August, registered an increase of 11.4%, according to Colombia’s Banco de la República (Bank of the Republic), going from $1.4 billion USD the same period last year to $1.564...

US based American Agricultural Insurance Company (AAIC) has announced that it is now authorized to reinsure risks based in Argentina and Colombia through the broker marketplace. The company has been named an Admitted Foreign Reinsurer in Argentina and an Approved Reinsurer in...

Delta (NYSE: DAL) and LATAM Airlines Group S.A. (NYSE: LTM; IPSA: LTM) last week announced that they have entered into a strategic partnership that seeks to reshape the air travel environment in The Americas. Chile based LATAM will sever its ties with longtime partner American...

Continental Gold Inc. (TSX:CNL; OTCQX:CGOOF) has commenced drilling a deep diamond drill hole from the Higabra tunnel elevation at its Buriticá project in Antioquia, Colombia. The planned 1,600-meter hole has been designed to test for gold and copper mineralization within a known...

CGX Energy Inc. (TSXV: OYL) and Frontera Energy Corporation (TSX: FEC) announced last week that Frontera has elected to convert the principal amount outstanding (US$8.8 million) under its bridge loan facility due September 30, 2019. As previously announced, the principal amount...

Toronto based Royal Road Minerals Limited (TSXV:RYR), a gold and copper focused mineral exploration and development company, has announced that by way of its recently completed purchase of Northern Colombia Holdings Limited, an affiliate of AngloGold Ashanti Limited, it has...