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Starting today, all of Antioquia, including Medellín is under a 5pm-5am daily COVID-19 curfew and alcohol ban. Hospital intensive care wards have reached 95% capacity in some parts of the department. Normally this is the busiest travel and leisure week of the year in Colombia.

A division of the United States Department of Agriculture gave final approval and issued guidelines for importation of Colombian capsicum pepper varieties. This creates another opportunity for Colombia to take advantage of its bilateral free trade agreement with the US, in place...

Apples from the US compete in Colombia with imports from Chile, Portugal, Spain, Italy and France. US producers export between $10-15 million USD in apples to Colombia, representing approximately 8.500 metric tons, though that volume increased 21% to 10,300 metric tons as of...

Colombia’s Minister of Health and Social Protection, Fernando Ruiz Gómez has announced that today, the “Mi Vacuna” (My Vaccine) vaccination portal should go live, with the ability to inform Colombians of their “place in line” for the Coronavirus COVID-19 vaccine.

KFC found itself in hot oil after ridiculing Colombia's President Ivan Duque online. The global fast food chain has no problem ridiculing the politicians in other countries but for whatever reason found broasting Duque for his gaffe eulogizing the Defense Minister too hot to...

The President says vaccinations start February 20, & Colombia has acquired 61.5 million doses, with an investment of more than 2 billion pesos, which guarantees vaccines for 35,250,000 Colombians during 2021.

Behamin Sebastián Benedikt Weber, Auer Hans Werner Schmitz, Lucasz Tomasz Banas and Daniel Alejandro Calacaño Sánchez were caught with 9 tarantulas and 1 egg. One of the German suspects presented an authorization by a German museum, but foreign museums have no authority to...

The CDC announced an order requiring all air passengers arriving to the US from a foreign country to get tested no more than 3 days before their flight departs and to present the negative result or documentation of having recovered from COVID-19 to the airline before boarding the...

All air passengers entering the United States must now present a negative COVID-19 test, taken within 3 calendar days of departure, or proof of recovery from the virus within the last 90 days. Airlines MUST DENY BOARDING to any passenger failing to meet these requirements.

It is important to obtain test results as close to the travel date as possible, because if the test results fall outside of the 96-hour window due to a flight delay, regardless of reason, the traveler may be denied boarding.