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With more than 1,000 business meetings held at Colombia’s recent Colombia Investment Summit 2019, Colombia’s national Investment Promotion Agency (IPA) ProColombia announced over $1 Billion USD in new foreign direct investment (FDI). These include an investment by the US...

Last month a delegation of functionaries from Kenya, Ghana & Ethiopia were in Medellín to understand the success Colombia’s second largest city has had in implementing bicycle friendly infrastructure in the city’s urban transport ecosystem. The mission participants studied...

According to a new report by Colombia Risk Analysis, the debate underway over pension reform in Colombia is plagued with misinformation and confusion resulting from the current divisive political climate in the country, and conflicting objectives by various political actors....

On November 21, massive protests took place throughout Colombia; the largest at least since 1977, over 40 years ago. Though limited labor union strikes and university student protests are fairly common in Colombia, this was a public action unseen in Colombia for at least two...

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...