Tag: Colombia

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.
Tuesday, April 26th 2011 - 02:53 UTC
Colombia strikes new oil well; production in March averaging 884.000 bpd

Colombia’s state-run petroleum company Ecopetrol announced the results of testing from an oil well in the south of the country with initial findings showing production levels to average 92 barrels of oil a day reported the Bogotá press.
Wednesday, April 13th 2011 - 23:04 UTC
EU, Colombia, Peru sign ambitious trade agreement; saves half a billion Euros in tariffs

EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gutch together with Colombian Minister for Trade Sergio Diaz-Granados Guida and Peruvian Deputy Minister for Foreign Trade Carlos Posada Ugaz, celebrated Wednesday in Brussels the initialling of an ambitious trade agreement between the EU, Colombia and Peru.