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The Regional Association of Oil, Gas and Biofuels Sector Companies in Latin America and the Caribbean (ARPEL) has announced last week its signature of the statement of support to the Women’s Empowerment Principles promoted by UN Women and the United Nations Global Compact....

In 2008, the Miami Rum Festival began as a small but elegant rum tasting event at Coral Gables’ historic Venetian Pool with 54 luxury rums and 150 rum enthusiasts in attendance. Eleven years later — after growing the event to be the biggest gathering of rum experts and...

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...

Bogotá continues to consolidate itself as a leader in the high end office market according to a study performed by global real estate firm Cushman & Wakefield. According to the study, Bogotá comes in second, just after Santiago de Chile, with 167 m2 of class A space per 1,000...

TalentoTotal’s first TotalMBA Prep Fellow, Thomaz Barbosa, recently earned acceptance to the Full-Time MBA Programs at both Harvard Business School (HBS) and the Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management. TalentoTotal, an international non-profit organization created...

Bogotá is Colombia’s vibrant capital of 9 million people. Seat of the country’s government, home to many of Colombia’s most important businesses, and the setting for eclectic restaurants, nightlife, and cultural attractions, the capital city still suffers from some of the world’s...

On April 25, 2019, the Andean region’s banking elite will turn out for the annual Bonds & Loans Latin America Awards at the JW Marriott in Bogotá. Over 380 leading banking executives and their clients will attend the ceremony. Big winners include the Dominican Republic who...

Viva Air CEO Félix Antelo announced last week the hiring of Catalina Rendón Jaramillo as Viva Air’s director of communications and corporate affairs for the low cost international airline. During the last 12 years Rendón led the communications efforts of Inexmoda, Colombia’s...

Technology executives from some of the most important companies in Colombia met in Bogotá last week to discuss the achievements and challenges migrations to a cloud-based IT infrastructure. The meeting was sponsored by Microsoft and Unisys in collaboration with Finance Colombia...

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...