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After the first COVID-19 tax holiday was condemned as irresponsible, the Colombian government is restricting electronics & appliance sales during the next two tax holidays taking place in July where shoppers will be exempt from the country's 19% VAT tax.

President Ivan Duque announced a further extension to Colombia’s national curfew in response to the Coronavirus COVID-19 Pandemic to July 15 in Decree 878 of June 25, but also modified Decree 847 of June 14, allowing limited pilots of restaurant and church reopenings.

In July, 5 companies will begin 5G network trials in the Colombian cities of Medellín, Bogotá, Tolú, Barrancabermeja, and Cali. Meanwhile the country announced a strategy to move consumers at least to 4G and dismantle the aged 2G mobile telecommunications network.

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.

Colombia's "Day without Tax" may have undone in less than 24 hours the country's past three months of success in battling the Coronavirus COVID-19 Pandemic. Even if the government decides to lift curfews and restrictions, this may have been the dumbest possible way to do it.

Reverse Mortgages will now be legal in Colombia, says President Ivan Duque, providing a financial option that may benefit Colombian homeowners 65 years of age or older.

The Colombian government has decreed that all government or private-sector employees that can work from home, must work from home as a response to the Coronavirus Pandemic.

Colombia's government announced that Colombia’s airports will reopen to international flights beginning September 1. Domestic flights are expected to resume July 1, as the national curfew is slated to end June 30, though this has not been confirmed.

In a national embarrassment, the Colombian Navy lost control of 3 unattended, fully armed Boston Whaler gunboats that then drifted into possession of the Venezuelan Military

Both the Colombian petroleum producers' industry group ACP and the petroleum workers' union UTIPEC are in agreement in their calls for flexibility in petroleum transportation prices in Colombia's indirectly government controlled transportation network, and decry CENIT's financing...