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Colombia may be the newest route for migrants traveling illegally to the United States from third countries, according to a new documentary by the Discovery Channel and Caracol Television.  The country serves as a transit point for many who undertake this perilous journey,...

Finance minister Maurice Cardenas signed a Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) intergovernmental agreement, with US Ambassador Kevin Whitaker last Wednesday. The bilateral agreement is aimed at combating offshore tax evasion by promoting the exchange of information between...

Colombia’s Tax Authority, DIAN has clarified the withholding tax rate applicable to payments made abroad based on the provisions of Law 1739 of 2014. Article 28 of Law 1739 of 2014 set forth that revenue obtained by companies and foreign entities, that is not attributable to a...

Colombia’s largest company, state controlled Ecopetrol released video showing the unauthorized entry of USO (Union Sindical Obrera de la Industria del Petrolero) activists last Tuesday at the oil producer’s Pozos Colorados facility, on the Atlantic coast, south of...

The increasing currency flows from foreign investment directed towards the hydrocarbon sector, have been stimulated largely due to laws that Colombia’s national government has implemented in order to stimulate investment in this sector. The time has come to discuss and to analyze...

Above: Contraband gasoline smuggled into Maicáo, Colombia from Venezuela. Photo Credit: Loren Moss MIAMI, Feb. 3, 2015, (PRNewswire) — The border between Colombia and Venezuela is home to some of the world’s richest oil and gas reserves. But it is also...

Starting January 1, 2015, Colombia’s national mining agency, the ANM (Agencia Nacionál de Minas) has implemented a registry of authorized gold traders within Colombia to combat the widespread illicit and informal gold mining. This registry is designed to combat two problems, the...

According to reports in El Tiempo, the former mayor of Milán, Caquetá is being extradited to the US to face charges for narcotics trafficking. Jhon Eduarth Monje Alvarado has been indicted by a Texas court of belonging to an organized trafficking ring that has moved close to 100...

Colombians made up far less than 1% of the removals by US Immigrations & Customs Enforcement According to a report issued by the United States Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement, there were 1,181 Colombians deported by the US during the 2014...

Colombia’s homicide level of 12,800 nationally, is the lowest since 1984, according to reports, while the more meaningful rate of homicides per 100,000 residents dipped under 30 per 100,000; a rate not seen since the 1970s. According to El Tiempo, this rate is still higher...