Finance Colombia » magdalena

Photo credit: Laura LaRose via Flickr https://flic.kr/p/QACXgS Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license

Cuban Doctors Deploying To Medellín? Not All Roads Lead To Cuba In International Cooperation – Op Ed

A leaked letter showed that Medellín Mayor Daniel Quintero wrote the cuban government asking for Cuban doctors to potentially come to Medellin and help with the COVID-19 Pandemic. But he bypassed Colombia's foreign ministry and ignited a major controversy that a more experienced...

Posted On August 1, 2020

, By Sergio Escobar

Flavia Santoro, president of ProColombia.

Despite Coronavirus Pandemic, Colombia Still Expects 45 New Foreign Investment Projects From 21 Countries

ProColombia announced new investments from 21 countries totalling $1.477 billion USD generating 17,000 new jobs.

Posted On May 18, 2020

, By Loren Moss

102 Colombian Municipalities Facing Drinking Water Shortages Due To Drought, Up From 32

Minvivienda, Colombia’s Ministry of Housing has announced in a follow-up study to one completed last month that the number of municipalities affected by the lack of rainfall has increased to 102; this even though several areas in the country have experienced heavy rain...

Posted On February 26, 2020

, By Loren Moss

off

ProColombia Announces Over $1 Billion USD In New Foreign Direct Investment

With more than 1,000 business meetings held at Colombia’s recent Colombia Investment Summit 2019, Colombia’s national Investment Promotion Agency (IPA) ProColombia announced over $1 Billion USD in new foreign direct investment (FDI). These include an investment by the US...

Posted On December 22, 2019

, By Loren Moss

off

Colombia’s Attorney General Prosecutes Various Cases of Corruption In October’s Local & Departmental Elections

One week ago last Sunday, Colombian voters went to the polls to choose mayors, neighborhood councils, city councils, and governors. With some notable exceptions, elections were mostly peaceful unlike past decades, but typical localized cases of vote buying and corruption were...

Posted On November 4, 2019

, By Loren Moss

off

US Navy Hospital Ship USNS Comfort Attends To Thousands of Colombian Patients On Humanitarian Stop In Santa Marta

United States Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort is in Santa Marta, Colombia this week giving free medical care to local Colombian patients, including several complex surgeries on the hospital ship, along with primary medical care in Santa Marta’s Coliseo Mayor Polideportivo...

Posted On August 21, 2019

, By Loren Moss

off

US Government Experts Assess HydroItuango & Rio Cauca Environmental Conditions By Invitation of Colombia’s National Environmental Licensing Authority

At the behest of Colombia’s National Environmental Licensing Authority (ANLA) scientists from the United States government spent two weeks in Colombia observing and analyzing the environmental impacts of the Hidroituango contingency, the troubled hydroelectric dam construction...

Posted On July 30, 2019

, By Loren Moss

VivaColombia Colombia airplane el dorado airport (Photo credit: Viva Air)

off

Viva Air to Launch Direct Flight Between Miami and Santa Marta on December 18

During the first year, the carrier expects to transport some 31,000 passengers between Miami and Santa Marta, which it has named its third hub in Colombia.

Posted On October 17, 2018

, By Jared Wade

ecopetrol lizama 158 oil spill (Credit: Ecopetrol)

off

Major Oil Spill in Colombia from Ecopetrol Well Has Been Contained, Says Company

The environmental harm is ongoing, and Ecopetrol’s response to the catastrophe has drawn widespread criticism.

Posted On March 31, 2018

, By Jared Wade

Enjoying some fresh-roasted Colombian coffee at a farm near Salento, one of the country's top tourism destinations. (Credit: Jared Wade)

off

Colombia to Invest Around $20 Million USD on Tourism Infrastructure Projects in 2018

Though the 57 billion pesos allotted for 2018 are substantially below the 161 billion pesos invested last year, Colombia's commerce ministry stressed that the investment is critical.

Posted On January 6, 2018

, By Jared Wade