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Colombia’s economy continues to grow, and the country attracts more foreign direct investment every year. Just this October, over a billion US dollars in FDI was announced at investment Promotion Agency ProColombia’s 2019 Investment Summit. Colombia’s capital of 9 million souls,...

S&P Global Ratings last week raised its issuer credit rating to ‘B-‘ from ‘SD’ and its issue-level rating on the 9% senior secured notes due 2023 to ‘B-‘ from ‘CCC-‘ and the 8.375% senior unsecured notes due 2020 to...

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has granted phytosanitary certification for exports from four Colombian beef processors, allowing Colombian ranchers to tap into Saudi Arabia’s $400 million USD beef market. Red Cárnica S.A.S. from Córdoba (belonging to Athena Foods, of Minerva...

Vostock Capital´s team of analysts has prepared a report on the status of desalination industry in mining. The need for desalination in the mining sector continues to increase; today we see the existence of vast mineral reserves in Chile, Peru and other countries, with plans to...

Frontera Energy Corporation (TSX: FEC) last week announced its full year 2020 capital plan and guidance information. According to the company, the 2020 plan and guidance has been developed with the following four key objectives: Delivering sustainable levels of production and...

On November 21, massive protests took place throughout Colombia; the largest at least since 1977, over 40 years ago. Though limited labor union strikes and university student protests are fairly common in Colombia, this was a public action unseen in Colombia for at least two...

Spanish telephone company Telefónica (BME: TEF) announced this week in a letter to from the CEO that it intends to spin off its Spanish-language Latin America operations in order to focus on business in Spain, Brazil, Germany and the United Kingdom. According to the company in a...

 Colombia, Peru, Uruguay and Mexico lead the ranking of the Global Microscope on the environment for financial inclusion, an index that focuses on regulation, political strategies, and infrastructure to address this issue. In these four countries, financial inclusion is a...

In the first half of 2019, Colombia’s avocado exports are up 37.6% compared to the same period in 2018, according to ProColombia, Colombia’s export promotion agency, and DANE, the national statistics agency. This in contrast to a global increase in consumption of 3% according to...

Frontera Energy Corporation (TSX: FEC) has delivered estimated third quarter 2019 production of 70,200 boe/d (barrels of oil equivalent per day) in-line with 2019 year to date production of 70,820 boe/d, both of which are above the high end of Frontera’s annual production...