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The U.S. Embassy in Bogota has announced that representatives from the Regional Federal Benefits Unit will visit Medellin, Cali and Bogota to offer services for beneficiaries or individuals with questions about U.S. Social Security and other federal benefits. To schedule an...

Catalina Restrepo has spent just a year and a half at the helm of ACI Medellín, the city’s investment promotion agency. Still, in that time she has been able to leaver her mark and create a legacy. As the current mayoral administration comes to the  close of its four year term,...

A bond issue was successfully completed last month in the amount of $131,350,000,000 Colombian pesos (Approximately $38.6 million USD) to finance the acquisition of the Transmilenio Phase I and II municipal bus fleet for the city of Bogotá’s 80th Street yard.  The transaction was...

Every two years for the past 2 decades, Colombia’s air force along with Corferias, a government events promotion agency organize the F-AIR airshow at the José Maria Córdova international airport in Rionegro, Colombia just outside of Medellín. With the United States once again...

There’s an ongoing debate about how we should evaluate the effectiveness of school choice policies. Last month, two education professors argued that standardized test scores should be “the measure of success.” Other education researchers – including myself – contend that we...

During his visit to Seoul, South Korea, the Deputy Minister of Digital Economy From MinTIC, Colombia’s Ministry of Information & Communications Technogy, Jehudi Castro Sierra, met with his South Korean counterpart Won Ki Min. Won also serves as the head of Artificial...

The 11th edition of F-AIR Colombia 2019, the main military aviation trade event in Colombia and one of the most important in Latin America, is returning and set to take place July 11-14 in Rionegro, Colombia. At this semi-annual event entrepreneurs from the civil and military...

On May 27, Hernán Dario Urrea Castaño, mayor of Guatapé, Antioquia ratified an agreement to outlaw the reuse or sales of polystyrene, wax paper, plastic straws, glasses or coffee stirrers. Guatapé is a small town approximately 2 hours outside of Medellín that sits on the shore of...

Moody’s Investors Service has affirmed the Baa2 issuer (local currency) and debt ratings (foreign currency) of Bogota, and also the Baa2 issuer ratings (foreign and local currency) of the City of Medellin; Colombia’s two largest cities, however the outlook for both cities...

During a “Construyendo País” workshop last Saturday in Inírida, the remote capital of Colombia’s Guainía Department, ICT minister Sylvia Constain said that the process of structuring the spectrum auction in the 700 and 1900 megahertz (MHz) bands will have a greater impact on such...