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Colombia’s CTI (analogous to the US FBI) Captured fugitive American narco-trafficker Daron Odell Jones during a layover at the El Dorado Airport in Bogotá as he attempted to travel from Mexico to the UK on a fake British passport.

Already entangled in multiple scandals involving illegal wiretapping of its pilots' union and improper favors to government officials, Colombian air carrier Avianca has now found itself involved in the massive multi-billion dollar global bribery scheme by Airbus uncovered by...

After announcing a plan to move away from Latin American markets, Madrid based Telefónica (BME: TEF) has sold 621 Colombian mobile telephony towers to Florida-based Phoenix Tower International, and agreed to sell 521 more Colombian towers and 1,408 towers in Ecuador. In Colombia,...

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...

Avianca has confirmed in a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission The Appointment of Anko Van Der Werff as its new CEO effective July 15

The World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Tropical Forest Alliance annual meeting just concluded in Bogotá, Colombia, and the WEF has announced a number of commitments that will contribute to the Alliance’s goal of protecting the world’s tropical rainforests. The meeting took place the...

This is a fall from 2015, when Colombia ranked 103rd overall, and a substantial drop from its ranking of 84th in 2010.

This builds on the company’s already-established reinsurance business in the country, UIB Colombia.

“With the stock markets booming and GDP predicted to grow in most major markets around the world, it’s no surprise CEOs are so bullish,” said Bob Moritz of PwC.

Wingo believes that this relationship will “support its rapid expansion plans.”