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Colombia’s attorney general, Fabio Espitia Garzón, received a delegation of prosecutors from The United Sates led by Zachary Terwilliger, Prosecutor for the Eastern District of Virginia. The purpose of the visit was to strengthen cooperation in the fight against organized...

According to printed reports in airline industry publications and El Tiempo, outgoing US Ambassador Kevin Whittaker announced that before the end of next year, Bogotá’s El Dorado International Airport will have a US Immigration Pre-Clearance Facility. Such facilities are...

Colombia’s Superintendencia de Industria y Comercio, or Superintendence of Industry & Commerce, akin to the US Federal Trade Commission, has announced a punitive fine on Uber Colombia SAS, Uber’s Colombia subsidiary, after Uber officials and lawyers allegedly blocked access...

Colombia’s former intelligence chief, Laude José Fernández Arroyo has been detained and is currently under house arrest; having been charged with illegally wiretapping ACDAC, the pilot’s union that had been involved in a bitter strike with Avianca during 2017. Fernández headed...

Earlier this month, ride hailing firm Uber’s offices in the Plaza Claro commercial center in Bogotá was ordered closed and sealed by authorities. Though Uber’s legality in Colombia is controversial and fiercely opposed by taxi syndicates, the closure seemed to have a curious...

The European Union is sponsoring a project to help small and medium sized businesses in Colombia take full advantage of their rights under Colombian and international intellectual property law. The program is called IP Key, and operates under the auspices of the European Union...

In “Operation Poena,” conducted jointly between Colombia’s National Police, Argentina’s Federal Police and Interpol, 74 year old Argentine executive Roberto Jorge Rigoni was captured in Campana, Argentina, 90 kilometers outside of Buenos Aires. According...

Japanese multinational Mitsubishi Electric (TYO: 6503) has received threats via an anonymous pamphlet that threatens several managers and supervisors of its Bello, Antioquia factory, and accuses several employees as being complicit with the “Pachelly” criminal gang active in the...

Criminal groups from Colombia have become the major source of employment in Venezuelan villages across the border as they recruit victims of the Venezuelan crisis in order to expand and build up their criminal power, according to a report by a human rights organization. Guerrilla...

Colombian authorities have discovered that an important water resource is under threat from illegal mining in a rural area of Cúcuta, revealing that the region is dealing with far more than the well publicized border crisis with Venezuela. In a visit to Palmarito, in the north of...