Colombia’s President Ivan Duque Márquez announced late last night that even though municipal curfews were due to expire Tuesday morning, the national government has declared a national 24 hour curfew beginning Tuesday at midnight until midnight, April 13 in order to retard the...
Today, the utility operator Empresas Públicas de Medellin (EPM) owned by the city of Medellin, was awarded in a competitive process the operation of Caribe Mar, the electrical utility formed by the Colombian government out of Electricaribe. Due to insolvency, the Colombian...
President Ivan Duque announced Sunday that Colombia, starting today, March 16, is completely closed to foreign visitors in an effort to contain the global Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic
Yesterday, Colombia’s President Ivan Duque declared a national health emergency in the country as the number of coronavirus cases in the Andean nation rose to 13.
As Coronavirus arrives in Colombia, the website of Minsalud, Colombia’s ministry of health and social protection has gone offline intermittently and become unstable. The country is responding to the COVID-19 pandemic with a free app for Android mobile devices and telephone...
Colombia's Central Bank, Finance Ministry, and Financial Regulator met today to discuss the rapidly deteriorating global financial situation fueled by coronavirus, outbreak of petroleum price war, and a falling currency value.
Colombia’s immigration authorities in conjunction with the Ministry of Health have announced new measures, effective immediately, that apply to all travelers entering Colombian territory, whether Colombian or foreign.
After the first case of coronavirus COVID-19 was diagnosed on Colombian territory in a student who had returned to Bogotá from Milan, Italy, two more cases have been diagnosed in passengers returning from Spain. The additional cases were diagnosed in Medellín and Buga, a small...