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Friday January 16th at 3:14 p.m., the first Boeing B787-8 of Avianca departed from the El Dorado International Airport in Bogotá en route to New York with 236 passengers and 10 crew. On board this sophisticated aircraft, passengers of route AV 244 will enjoy a more comfortable...

Today, at an event in Bogotá, Colombia, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and President Juan Manuel Santos announced the availability of Facebook’s Internet.org app for Tigo customers in Colombia. Zuckerberg hosted a live question & answer session ...

Photo credit: Loren Moss According to statistics released by DANE (National Department of Statistics), Colombia faced a 2014 inflation rate of 3.66%, an increase of 88% over 2013. The government statistics are important because many charges are set and adjusted annually based on...

In December 2014, and in just 13 days, Avianca received delivery of its first four Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft. This signals the end of the first phase of incorporation of the Dreamliners. The remaining aircraft will be incorporated into the fleet between 2015 and 2019....

UPDATE: Patty Alcivar returns to the boxing ring , Friday, March 13, 2015 from 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM in Westbury, NY – Tickets and information here. Gold medalist boxer, Patricia Alcivar was born in Barranquilla, Atlántico, but moved with her parents to the USA when she was...

Hilton Worldwide recently opened their 123 room Hilton Garden Inn Barranquilla in Colombia’s most important coastal city. The hotel marks the first of Hilton’s Garden Inn brand in Colombia and is indicative of Hilton’s expansion strategy for Colombia, and Latin America at larg...

HOUSTON, Jan. 6, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Swift Worldwide Resources, the premier supplier of manpower resources to the oil and gas industry, is expanding its global reach by opening three new international branches. These offices bring the total number of Swift locations to 30,...

According to company reports, government owned Ecopetrol broke a single day production record in it’s Chichimene, Meta oil field, pumping 86,389 barrels of crude oil on January 2nd. A year ago, the field was producing 48,446 barrels per day, so the mature field is now...

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...