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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...

On Bogotá’s famous Avenida Séptima (7th Avenue) in Colombia, about where it connects with 76th street near the Russian Embassy, a large mural was painted on a wall. The mural, since painted over, was graffiti art in opposition to “Fracking,” or Hydraulic Fracturing. Known within...

Tecnoglass, Inc.(NASDAQ: TGLS) Colombia’s leading manufacturer of architectural glass, windows, and associated aluminum products for the global commercial and residential construction industries, this week announced the appointment of Carlos Alfredo Cure Cure to its board of...

Wayúu indigenous leader Monica Barros tells Finance Colombia what multinationals must do to make profits in harmony with communities and the land

Avianca: "Our business may not succeed even if the Re-profiling Plan is successful and the Stakeholder Investment is consummated."

Chevron Corporation (NYSE:CVX) last week in Bogotá launched a major initiative to support residents of Colombia’s La Guajira department on the country’s Atlantic Coast. The global petroleum giant collaborated with the local Catholic Diocese of Riohacha and many Colombian delivery...

According to ratings firm Fitch, Half-cycle costs for Latin American oil and gas companies increased only slightly in 2018 by 3 percent, versus an 11 percent increase the prior year, according to a new  report the firm issued. “The 2018 increase was caused by higher lifting...

Criminal groups from Colombia have become the major source of employment in Venezuelan villages across the border as they recruit victims of the Venezuelan crisis in order to expand and build up their criminal power, according to a report by a human rights organization. Guerrilla...

Colombian authorities have discovered that an important water resource is under threat from illegal mining in a rural area of Cúcuta, revealing that the region is dealing with far more than the well publicized border crisis with Venezuela. In a visit to Palmarito, in the north of...

Gran Colombia Gold Corp. (TSX: GCM; OTCQX: TPRFF) announced recently that it sees opportunity in the evolving changes in Venezuela to recover and develop its gold exploration assets that were nationalized in 2011, adding to its pipeline of Latin America-based projects which could...