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Colombia's "Comité Nacional de Paro," a coalition of labor unions and syndicalist groups has called for national strikes in Colombia for the 2nd time this year, after the government released a revised fiscal package.

What can observers take from events in Peru? And what takeaways are relevant for Colombia’s upcoming 2022 elections, and for economic and civil liberty more broadly in the Americas? Daniel Raisbeck has some prescient observations.

Colombian President Ivan Duque's withdrawal of his controversial tax hikes were not enough to stop nationwide protests in Colombia. The reason the protests continue vary, with much legitimate discontent and dissatisfaction, but provocateurs and common criminality must also be...

Colombian President Ivan Duque announced that he was asking Congress to withdraw from consideration his fiscal reform package, brainchild of his Finance Minister Alberto Carrasquilla. The controversial package was put forward to broaden the Colombian government’s revenue base,...

Beyond the tax reform, which was the primary theme of the protests, Colombians took the opportunity to express deep discontent with the current government’s failure to manage the COVID pandemic, and lack of vaccines available in the country, and the government’s failure to...

Firearms and heavy weapons remain exempt from taxation, along with bottled mineral water and most soft drinks. In a “Let them eat cake” moment, Duque’s finance minister Alberto Carrasquilla in an interview defending the tax package, admitted that he had no idea how much basic...

Some of those Colombians in South Florida have been playing a media game in recent weeks that could influence the balance of power in Washington with the upcoming election on November 3rd.

Only 8 months into his term as mayor of Medellín, tomato-throwing Daniel Quintero has managed to unite Paisas from labor unions to corporate giants against him.Multiple boards of directors have resigned, and Fitch has downgraded the city-owned utility's credit, citing 'governance...

The report’s co-author Cameron Wilson took time to speak with Finance Colombia executive editor Loren Moss about the many points covered by the report, including what to expect in the second half of Colombian President Ivan Duque’s term.

1 day after being detained in house arrest by Colombia’s supreme court on charges of witness tampering, former president and current senator Alvaro Uribe is infected with the COVID-2 Coronavirus, that leads to the COVID-19 disease.