Tag: Colombia

• Saturday, August 22nd 2020 - 08:31 UTC

  Brazilian anti corruption probe nets two of South America's richest brothers

  

  Two of South America's wealthiest brothers, the Bolivian-born airline magnates German and Jose Efromovich, were arrested this week in Brazil as part of the country's sweeping anti-corruption probe, “Operation Car Wash.”

• Friday, August 21st 2020 - 08:55 UTC

  Colombia claims Venezuela is working to acquire missiles from Iran

  

  Colombia's President Ivan Duque claimed on Thursday that the government of President Nicolas Maduro in neighboring Venezuela was working to acquire missiles from its ally Iran.

• Thursday, August 20th 2020 - 10:51 UTC

  Ex Colombian president Uribe, under investigation, resigned his Senate seat

  

  Former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, who is under investigation for alleged witness tampering, resigned his Senate seat on Tuesday after being placed under house arrest earlier this month.

• Thursday, August 20th 2020 - 10:47 UTC

  Colombia surpasses half a million Covid-19 cases and 16,000 deaths

  

  Coronavirus cases in Colombia surpassed 500,000 on Wednesday as deaths from the virus approach 16,000 and the country nears the end of five months of lockdown.

• Tuesday, August 18th 2020 - 09:09 UTC

  The US pledges US$ 5bn to Colombia for rural development; Duque supports US candidate for IDB

  

  The United States and Colombia will work together to bring new investment to rural areas of the country, officials said on Monday, as Colombia's president reiterated support for the U.S. candidate to lead the Inter-American Development Bank.

• Saturday, August 1st 2020 - 06:07 UTC

  Colombia planning private sector workers to tap pension savings

  

  Colombia is the latest Latin American country considering a plan to let workers tap private pension savings, a move intended to soften the slump in consumer spending but which risks worsening some of the world’s deepest stock market slumps.

• Monday, July 27th 2020 - 10:28 UTC

  Latin America, the region most impacted with the coronavirus

  

  Coronavirus cases in Latin America for the first time have surpassed the combined infections in the United States and Canada, a tally showed on Sunday, amid a surge of infections in Brazil, Mexico, Peru, Colombia and Argentina.

• Wednesday, July 22nd 2020 - 07:50 UTC

  Dissident FARC guerrilla suspected of having shot down an Army helicopter

  

  Eleven Colombian military personnel were missing and six injured after a helicopter crashed in the southeast of the country during an operation against guerillas, the army said on Tuesday. The Blackhawk helicopter was carrying 17 military personnel when it went down.

• Tuesday, July 21st 2020 - 08:42 UTC

  Colombia's economy contracted 16,65% in May year to year

  

  Colombia’s economy contracted 16.65% in May versus the same month a year ago as ongoing measures to curb the spread of coronavirus hit production, the government’s statistics agency said.

• Wednesday, July 1st 2020 - 10:07 UTC

  Colombian Senate approves trade agreement with the United Kingdom

  

  A bilateral trade agreement between Colombia and the United Kingdom has passed in Colombia’s plenary senate session and now passes to the Andean nation’s lower house for approval. <br />
  The legislation seeks to maintain uninterrupted trade access, terms and conditions between Colombia and the UK that have existed under the Colombia – European Union agreement.