Colombia media

Candidates for the upcoming presidential elections in Colombia participated in the first national debate on Thursday and agreed on the need to defend the ... The debate was organized by RCN TV and the National Federation of Commerce (Fenalco) in partnership with the Institute of Political Science, the ...

The Embassy of Colombia in South Africa, together with the Randburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RCCI), recently hosted a conference at Monash ... On the day, the Colombian embassy brought some of its country's officials and law enforcement agents to share their approach and experience.

“We also recognise the important role of the WTO in promoting open, transparent, non-discriminatory, and predictable regulatory environments in facilitating electronic commerce,” the statement continued. The new proposals, tabled by Argentina, Colombia, and Costa Rica (JOB/GC/174); New Zealand ...

Red Eagle Exploration Ltd. said in a March 21 statement that it has been trying to resolve the dispute through the discussions with Colombia's Ministry of Commerce and the Agency for the Defense of the State for the past year. The dispute stems from a 2014 decision by the South American country's ...

Being the first LatAm country to be strictly regulated by a regulatory body, Coljuegos, Colombia has surely been attracting quite a substantial amount of attention ... telecommunication, e-commerce and banking, strongly committed to technology and widely investing in technology research and development.

More than 800 businesses sponsored paramilitary groups that committed tens of thousands of human right violations in Colombia, in most cases without ... The report added that the sectors where the relationship was most evident were agriculture (38%), commerce (24%), and oil and mining (10%).

Foreign direct investment in Colombia went up almost 5% in 2017, the country's central bank announced on Tuesday. ... Important sectors like mining and manufacturing saw an increase in investment in 2017, while other sectors important for employment, like commerce and agriculture, saw investment ...

Moreover, according to the Ministry of Commerce, Industry, and Tourism, last year's all-time high is 68% higher than the foreign revenue of $3.4 billion USD in 2010, right around the time when Colombia's security situation had started to improve enough to begin attracting more international tourists.

The massive migratory flow from a collapsing Venezuela can be measured by the 91,000 people estimated to have crossed Colombia's border on a single day in mid-February or by the pain of Delida, a 46-year-old ... While the licit and illicit commerce across that almost 1,400-mile border is traditional.

WASHINGTON—Wingo, the Colombia-based ultra-LCC affiliate of Panama's Copa Airlines that launched in late 2016, has “surpassed all expectations,” although it has not yet become profitable, Copa CEO Pedro Heilbron said. Speaking at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Aviation Summit here, Heilbron ...

DUBAI, Feb 28 2018 (WAM) - Cesar Gaviria, Former President of Colombia, stated that Dubai is a key international city, which employs innovation and modern ... titled, “Governance of the Future in Latin America,” which was organised by the Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Gaviria said, “Through the Forum and ...

Late last year, Colombia set an all-time modern monthly record for hotel occupancy rate, with 62.5% of available rooms being filled last November, according to government statistics. The Ministry of Commerce, Industry, and Tourism (MinCIT) credited the positive results to the increasing number of corporate ...

This has taken 210,000 barrels daily of transportation capacity offline, impacting Colombia's already declining production. To make matters worse, the ELN instituted a national three-day armed halt in the territory it controlled, slated to end on February 13, 2018. This was aimed at disrupting local commerce ...

Colombia needs a tourism ministry to take full advantage of the growing number of foreign visitors, representatives from the industry say. During the past seven years, the number of international visitors has increased by 150%, according to the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism with a record ...

"This export of rice is in line with our policy of diversification of the exportable supply, but also shows the deepening of our Trade Agreement with Canada, where the income of this product is tax-free," said the Colombian Minister of Commerce, Industry and Tourism, Mar?a Lorena Gutierrez. Meanwhile, the ...

2015: The Colombian Minister of Foreign Relations and China's Ambassador in Colombia sign an agreement on economic and technical cooperation. ... “The Colombian government,” says Jaime Suarez, executive director for the Colombian Chinese Investment and Commerce Chamber, “is adopting a ...

A little over one year ago, Colombian president Manuel Santos pushed through a peace deal with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People's Army (FARC-EP), ending a decades-long war and transitioning FARC from a guerilla army to a legal political party. He did so despite the original deal's ...

... in Colombia, I had the opportunity to interview many of Fajardo's key allies and former members of his local coalition Citizen's Commitment (Compromiso Ciudadano). Initially a broad coalition of NGOs, social movements, local business elites, and even the chamber of commerce, the Compromiso aimed ...

"That situation constitutes an obstacle for him and any Colombian, but have absolute certainty that banks don't take sides," Castro said. "We have to see what is Petro's case." In 2016, a decision was made by the Superintendence of Industry and Commerce to freeze Petro's personal account for changing ...

They already have to cope with smuggled subsidized Venezuelan goods damaging local commerce, and have grown tired of job-seekers and lending their bathrooms to migrants. Spooked by police raids, migrants in Maicao have abandoned the parks and bus stations where they had makeshift camps, ...