Colombian President Iván Duque lauded the extradition of Saab, calling it a “triumph in the fight against drug trafficking, money laundering and corruption led by the dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro.”
The US State Department has issued a statement following bilateral talks with a Colombian delegation headed by Colombian President Ivan Duque that recently visited Washington, D.C. During the first three years of Ivan Duque’s term, cocaine production has reached new...
The “line in the sand” fiscal rule has now gone but due to the measures taken there is the hope that the deficit will drop from the anticipated 8.6% in 2021 to 2.7% in 2026.
Minister Karen Abudinen has resigned to the metaphorical cemetery she promised during an April television interview. Though no one has accused her so far of criminal wrongdoing, questions remain as to how her office could fall victim to a quarter billion US dollar fraud without...
The main cities that adopted teleworking were Bogotá with 157,417 teleworkers; followed by Medellín with 26,569; Barranquilla with 9,213; Cali with 5,421, and Bucaramanga with 3,467 people.
We have seen a slight rebound over recent sessions as the peso recovers from the perfect storm of a lost investment grade, a wobbly oil price and forthcoming elections. Another major factor for the peso will be exports and there was good news on that front for July.
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.
Clopatofsky Ghisays, born in Cartagena in 1961, is a business administrator, with studies in Political Science at the Javeriana University, and a master's degree in Public Administration at Harvard University.