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At the instruction of the Colombian President Ivan Duque’s finance ministry, Colombia’s state-controlled petroleum company, Ecopetrol (NYSE: EC, BVC: ECOPETROL) has called for an extraordinary meeting of shareholders for December 16th at 7:30am in Bogotá’s Corferias...

Colombia’s National Strike that took place yesterday, November 21 was overwhelmingly peaceful—depending upon where one was. Medellín and Cartagena saw almost completely peaceful protests, while Cali saw incidents of violence, and predictably, Bogotá saw massive acts of vandalism...

Yesterday in Colombia the country saw massive protests in every major city and in many small towns and even rural villages. The marches, largely peaceful with some exceptions in Bogotá, Cali and some looting in the small, impoverished city of Buenaventura, were a perfect storm of...

 Colombia, Peru, Uruguay and Mexico lead the ranking of the Global Microscope on the environment for financial inclusion, an index that focuses on regulation, political strategies, and infrastructure to address this issue. In these four countries, financial inclusion is a...

In order to promote the development of African Descendent communities and strengthen ties between both countries, the Ministry of Education of Colombia and the Department of Education of the United States signed a memorandum of understanding on academic cooperation in higher...

To further assist U.S. citizens in Colombia, the U.S. Citizen Services section will be visiting Medellín on Tuesday, November 19, 2019. Embassy officials will accept passport applications (Renewals and replacements) or obtain information on how to participate in the upcoming 2020...

Sunday’s local and gubernatorial elections in Colombia saw stunning defeats for the Centro Democratico, the political party of both current President Ivan Duque and former president Alvaro Uribe. Far left senator and former revolutionary militant Gustavo Petro also saw his hand...

US Marines Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force under the US Military Southern Command and Colombia’s Infantería de Marina de Colombia begin a week of Humanitarian Assistance/Disaster Relief (HA/DR) rehearsals and Subject Matter Expert Exchanges (SMEEs), in Coveñas,...

Colombia’s popular tourist town of Guatapé, Antioquia, roughly 2 hours outside of Medellín, has opened a new Malecón, or waterfront parkway, modernizing and increasing public space by more than 19,000 square meters. The public work was realized by joint efforts of the Guatapé...

Colombia’s Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (Hacienda) announced that by November, Colombia will restructure its ownership of almost two dozen government-owned companies into a single entity with an expected value of $80 billion USD. The holding company would be comprised of...