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Brookfield Renewable Energy Partners L.P. (TSX:BEP.UN)(NYSE:BEP) has committed to acquire 57.6% of the outstanding common shares of Medellín based Isagen S.A. (BVC:ISAGEN) from the Colombian government. In an auction held at 8am today that had only Brookfield as a bidder, the...

Local and regional governments (LRGs) in Brazil and Colombia should face similar challenges from the decline in commodities prices and their importance to their economies, according to Fitch Ratings. LRGs in Colombia and Brazil suffer from high numbers of informal workers (those...

Cali, January. 12, 2016 (PRNewswire) Global telecommunications provider Level 3 Communications, Inc. (NYSE: LVLT) announced the expansion of its global data center network with the opening of its newest data center facility in Latin America on December 28, 2015. Located in Cali,...

Last Sunday, global management consulting firm A.T. Kearney released its 2016 Global Services Location Index (GSLI), an annual report researched by the firm that analyzes and ranks the top 55 countries for outsourcing worldwide based on metrics in three categories: financial...

After Colbun dropped out of bidding last Friday (causing Colbun’s stock to rally strongly, up of 3.2%), only one bidder remains in contention for tomorrow’s January 13 auction for Colombian government controlled power producer, Isagen. Isagen is the third largest energy producer,...

Calgary, January 11, 2016 /CNW/ – Petroamerica Oil Corp. (TSX-V: PTA.V), an international oil and gas company operating in Colombia, has just announced that the plan of arrangement under the provisions of the Alberta (Canada) Business Corporations Act among Petroamerica,...

Barranquilla, Colombia–(Business Wire)– Tecnoglass, Inc. (NASDAQ:TGLS BVC:TGLSC), the Barranquilla, Colombia based manufacturer of architectural glass, windows, and associated aluminum products for the global residential and commercial construction industries, today...

Colombia ‘s mining and energy sector will strengthen the way it makes policy decisions and its administration of information for efficient services, as well as its controls and audit methods, with the support of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). An IDB loan of $30...

UPDATE: According to Colombia Reports, Chile’s Colbun drops out of bidding for Colombia’s Isagen on Monday, January 11, 2 days before the slated auction After a series of debates in Congress and conflicting positions between Colombian political parties, the Colombian...

Two years after purchasing 40% of Guatemala’s Grupo Agromercantil Holding, parent company of Grupo Financiero Agromercantil and Banco Agromercantil de Guatemala, Bancolombia (NYSE:CIB BVC:BCOLOMBIA), based in Medellín, Colombia has moved to take a controlling interest in the...