Tag: Colombia

• Thursday, August 18th 2011 - 07:06 UTC

  Colombia/Canada launch FTA promoting agro-trade and mining investment

  

  The Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement which took effect on Monday August 15 is Canada's fourth bilateral trade deal with a Latin American country and eliminates tariffs on a range of goods and services in an effort to facilitate trade and investment.

• Monday, August 8th 2011 - 20:10 UTC

  Colombia forces change strategy and will attack terrorists with small scale units

  

  Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos vowed to develop better strategies in the war on the Marxist oriented drugs funded guerrillas who still manage regular small attacks despite being at their weakest in decades.

• Monday, August 1st 2011 - 06:08 UTC

  After one year in office Colombia’s Santos has a strong 71% approval rating

  

  Close to his first year in office Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has an approval rating of 71%, according to the findings of a public opinion poll released Sunday in the Bogotá media.

• Thursday, June 30th 2011 - 17:42 UTC

  Colombian group takes over Uruguay main supermarkets chain, Disco and Devoto

  

  France’s Casino Guichard-Perrachon Colombian retailing branch, Exito announced the signing of a share purchase agreement for the acquisition of Casino' majority stakes in Uruguay’s main supermarket chain Disco and Devoto in an operation involving 746 million US dollars.

• Monday, June 27th 2011 - 05:26 UTC

  Three risk rating agencies have Colombia with investment grade

  

  Fitch Ratings raised Colombia to investment grade last week, becoming the third Wall Street agency to elevate the country this year to the coveted status, opening the door to a broader range of investors.

• Saturday, June 11th 2011 - 10:09 UTC

  Colombia signs landmark “Victims Law” to redress victims of internal conflict

  

  Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos signed into law Friday a landmark “Victims' Law” aimed at redressing the estimated 4 million victims of the country's long-running internal running conflict.

• Wednesday, June 1st 2011 - 08:37 UTC

  Moody’s joins S&P and lifts Colombia’ credit rating to investment grade

  

  Colombia’s credit rating was raised to investment grade by Moody’s Investors Service, matching a move by Standard & Poor’s two months earlier, as economic growth accelerates and the threat posed by guerrilla groups and organized crime recedes.

• Monday, May 23rd 2011 - 06:04 UTC

  Colombia’s oil company makes new discovery; plans to drill another ten wells in the block

  

  Colombian state oil company Ecopetrol said it made a new discovery at a well in the south-eastern Caño Sur block, of which the company is the sole owner and operator.
  The Mito-1 exploratory well yielded an average of 200 barrels per day of heavy oil in initial testing, Ecopetrol, which plans to drill another 10 wells at that block in the near future, said.

• Friday, May 13th 2011 - 01:01 UTC

  US trade deals with Colombia, Panama and Korea could be approved ‘by August’

  

  The United States free trade deals with Colombia, Panama and South Korea will pass through Congress by August if Republicans renew funding for the retraining of displaced workers, the chief U.S. trade official said Thursday.

• Wednesday, May 11th 2011 - 08:10 UTC

  IISS: cross-border sanctuaries have been key for the survival of Colombia’s FARC

  

  The ability of Colombia’s largest insurgent group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People’s Army (FARC), to rely on cross-border sanctuaries has long been key to its survival, according to the International Institute for Strategic Studies.