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Prosthetics of this type can cost almost $2,000 USD in Colombia, but due to support from benefactors such as the Viva Air Foundation and the Australian Embassy, Humanos 3D hopes to fabricate and donate at least 100 in 2021.

Ruíz has spent the last 24 years of her career at EPM, where she has held multiple posts including Director of Energy Regulation, and Executive Vice President of Business Management.

The study revealed that 66% of the surveyed businesspeople were optimistic regarding the operations of their companies in Colombia, while 30% feel the same in respect to the performance of the economy in general.

The seizures of several illegal shipments of medicine in Colombia’s northern department of La Guajira has shown that one of the country’s least-discussed criminal economies could rapidly expand during the coronavirus pandemic. In March, two shipments were seized in the...

According to an Insight Crime report, continued threats by criminal groups have led park rangers in Colombia’s protected areas of the Amazon rainforest to abandon their posts, leaving these territories to fall under the control of gangs.

This year’s annual dry season that affects Colombia in December and January has seen the number of municipalities facing shortages grow to 32, according to the country’s minister of housing, cities and territories, Jonathan Malagón.

As with the nation at large, most areas of Colombia are struggling to achieve growth. But certain segments and indicators are showing positive signs.

Repairs have not been completed due to “continued harassment by firing helicopters” and “anti-personnel mines,” said Ecopetrol.

Ecopetrol’s Oleoducto (Pipeline) Caño Limón Coveñas has reached 30 years of operation, reported Ecopetrol this month. Over that time, the pipeline has transported 1.5 billion barrels of crude oil, contributing $148 billion pesos to the economies of the surrounding areas. Such...

State owned petroleum company Ecopetrol and its subsidiary Cenit has commenced operation of two new hydrocarbon storage tanks in the Coveñas maritime terminal, Colombia’s primary petroleum shipping port. The two new tanks, each with capacity of 420,000 barrels, are part of a...