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Carrasquilla became the personification and villain of the tax package—and dissatisfaction with the Duque administration more broadly—after admitting to Colombian journalist Vicky Davila in the weeks leading up to the protests that as one of Colombia’s elite, he had no idea how...

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,...

Ecopetrol reports sales down 23.6% year-on-year for the 4th quarter of 2020, to 14,190 trillion Colombian pesos, or 3.95 billion USD. Full year sales are down 29.4% to 13.8 billion. The company was able to report net income of 1.7 trillion pesos, or $471 million USD.

he fact that Ecopetrol has gone public with its intentions indicates the near certainty that a deal has been agreed upon in advance within Colombia’s government. It also reveals an intention of the Colombian government to raise cash without further direct indebtedness, by selling...

A 3 judge panel in Colombia's Cundinamarca district court issued an emergency injunction against the $370 million USD loan by the administration of Colombian President Ivan Duque to bankrupt Avianca Airlines, where his sister is a top executive. The lawsuit was filed by a...

Colombia's Central Bank, Finance Ministry, and Financial Regulator met today to discuss the rapidly deteriorating global financial situation fueled by coronavirus, outbreak of petroleum price war, and a falling currency value.

At the instruction of the Colombian President Ivan Duque’s finance ministry, Colombia’s state-controlled petroleum company, Ecopetrol (NYSE: EC, BVC: ECOPETROL) has called for an extraordinary meeting of shareholders for December 16th at 7:30am in Bogotá’s Corferias...

Colombia’s Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (Hacienda) announced that by November, Colombia will restructure its ownership of almost two dozen government-owned companies into a single entity with an expected value of $80 billion USD. The holding company would be comprised of...

Colombia has previously hosted the event four times over the past six decades, mostly recently in 2009 in Medellín.

The funds will significantly reduce the interest rate of some 77,000 mortgages that officials say will be generated by plan.