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On Friday we also had the Central Bank's latest survey for October, and everything continues to trend upwards versus September.

Things can get worse, much worse. But as Duque’s four year term comes towards a close, there is a practical consensus in Colombia that things could have been much better.

It's hard not to be happy when your President announces from Brussels that 2021 growth will be at least 10.2% in 2021

There is little question that the country is going in the right direction, even the unemployment data for September was considerably better than expected.

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.

Colombian President Ivan Duque's withdrawal of his controversial tax hikes were not enough to stop nationwide protests in Colombia. The reason the protests continue vary, with much legitimate discontent and dissatisfaction, but provocateurs and common criminality must also be...

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...

Last night, Colombian President Ivan Duque announced that despite success in keeping Coronavirus infections under 1,600 in the country of 47 million, the government will extend the “national quarantine” until April 27. The initial term of the curfew was set to expire on April 13....

Colombia is in the middle of a national curfew as part of the country’s effort to contain the spread of the Coronavirus COVID-19 Pandemic. With certain exceptions, no one is to leave their homes until April 13, the day after Easter. As is the case around the world, the economic...

Colombia’s President Iván Duque Márquez announced yesterday, from his Twitter account, the appointment of University of Los Andes economist Arturo José Galindo Andrade as the new co-director of the Banco de la República, Colombia’s Central Bank, replacing José Antonio Ocampo. “I...