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Montevideo, December 27th 2024 - 04:13 UTC

Tag: Colombia

  • Monday, June 4th 2018 - 08:49 UTC

    Colombia renews flexible credit line of US$ 11.4bn with IMF

    Mitsuhiro Furusawa, chair of IMF executive board, says that Colombia’s international reserves are “adequate for normal times”

    In a continuation of a previous arrangement, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved Colombia for a flexible credit line of US$ 11.4 billion. The new two-year arrangement replaces the pre-existing credit line, which has now been cancelled. Colombia will continue to see the funds as precautionary to be used only in if economic conditions worsen due to an external shock or other emergency, according to the IMF.

  • Monday, May 28th 2018 - 06:19 UTC

    Colombian election: clear cut right and left candidates will dispute the 17 June runoff

    A favorite from the start, Uribe’s protégé Ivan Duque, as expected managed the highest number of supporters, with over 7 million, or 39% of the votes.

    Colombia’s left and right will be holding a runoff to compete for the presidency in June after hard-line conservative Ivan Duque and ex-guerrilla Gustavo Petro scooped most of the votes in the first round of Sunday elections.<br />
    The second vote will take place on June 17, which could see Colombia's already fragile peace deal with the FARC guerrillas shaken.

  • Saturday, May 26th 2018 - 09:15 UTC

    Colombia's presidential election: another referendum on the peace deal?

    The latest opinion polls released had Duque with an eleven percentage points lead. If no candidate gets a majority on May 27, a runoff vote will be held on June 17.

    On Sunday, Colombians will head to the polls to elect a new president. At play in this year’s election are a range of issues: Venezuelan migration, economic situation, rampant corruption, high levels of inequality, but above all is the country's historic peace accord that ended over half a century of armed conflict.

  • Saturday, May 26th 2018 - 08:16 UTC

    Colombia invited to join OECD; third Latin American member with Mexico and Chile

    “The accession of Colombia will contribute to our efforts to transform OECD into a more diverse and inclusive institution”, OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría

    The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) announced on Friday that Colombia would be officially invited to join the group. The Paris-based economic organization was founded in 1961 and has traditionally included industrialized nations, though in recent years it has extended its membership to emerging economies.

  • Wednesday, April 18th 2018 - 07:29 UTC

    FARC dissidents challenge Ecuador with a new abduction: a couple of civilians

    Guacho, who served as a rebel for 15 years in the now-defunct Farc movement, heads a group called the Oliver Sinisterra Front.

    A group of Colombian rebels active on the Ecuadorian border has sent a “proof of life” video of a kidnapped couple, the Ecuadorian government said, the second kidnapping by the group this month.

  • Saturday, April 14th 2018 - 10:56 UTC

    Ecuador and Colombia elite troops after Farc renegades who killed journalists and their driver

    The three men, who worked for the influential El Comercio newspaper -- were kidnapped on March 26 while covering a story on violence along the border

    Ecuador on Friday confirmed the deaths of two journalists and their driver who had been kidnapped by renegade Colombian rebels -- and quickly launched a retaliatory military operation in the area where they were snatched.

  • Tuesday, April 10th 2018 - 08:44 UTC

    FARC leader arrested in Bogotá on a US request for drug trafficking

    Jesus Santrich, a former peace negotiator, is accused of drug trafficking by a court in New York. He planned to export 10 tons of cocaine worth US$ 320m to the US

    One of the top leaders of Colombia's former rebel group, FARC, has been arrested in Bogota following a request from the United States. Jesus Santrich, a former peace negotiator, is accused of drug trafficking by a court in New York.

  • Saturday, April 7th 2018 - 10:31 UTC

    Milestone Colombian ruling orders the government urgent protection of Amazon rainforest

    In the ruling judges said that Colombia, with a swathe of rainforest roughly the size of Germany and England, saw deforestation rates in its Amazon region skyrocket

    Colombia’s highest court has told the government it must take urgent action to protect its Amazon rainforest and stem rising deforestation, in what campaigners said was an historic moment that should help conserve forests and counter climate change.

  • Wednesday, March 28th 2018 - 14:18 UTC

    Measles spreads again in the Americas

    The region had finally been declared free of the disease by an International Committee of Experts in 2016 after 22 years of mass vaccination.

    After being the first continent in the world declared free of measles in 2016, nine countries in the region have registered cases last year. With almost 900 cases, Venezuela was the most affected. The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) warns that the countries of the region should intensify their efforts to immunize the population and stop the spread of the disease.

  • Thursday, March 22nd 2018 - 11:33 UTC

    Red Cross: Rising humanitarian needs among Venezuelans entering Colombia

    In 2017 alone, an estimated 796,000 people entered Colombia from Venezuela through official migration points

    The Colombian Red Cross Society have been working for more than a year to support people arriving in Colombia and travelling through the country. Aid workers are warning of rising vulnerabilities among people crossing the Colombian-Venezuelan border and “are calling on the international community to increase support for humanitarian efforts”, said a statement published by International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) at Geneva.