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RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Colombia's capital and largest city will enter a strict quarantine until Tuesday due to rising coronavirus infection numbers and suspicions a new variant of the virus is circulating, Mayor of Bogota Claudia Lopez said...

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - January brought a coronavirus case surge in Latin America. After a drop in the curve in October and November, in December and early January the numbers increased again, coinciding with Christmas shopping, a relaxation...

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL -  Rescue workers in Colombia were searching for five migrants missing after their boat carrying 16 people sank as it tried to reach Panama. Two bodies have been found. The sinking was reported on Monday by...

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Colombia’s capital Bogotá will implement strict two-week quarantines in three neighborhoods beginning Tuesday to try and control a second wave of coronavirus, the mayor’s office said on Sunday, January 3rd. Home to a combined 2.7...

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Colombia's minimum wage will increase 3.5% in 2021, President Ivan Duque said in a Twitter message on Tuesday, December 30th, double the projected level of inflation for the past 12 months. The minimum wage will...

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - A measure of the pandemic's impact is that Colombia's output in 2020 is averaging 100,000 b/d less than it was in 2019. A small fraction of that decline was anticipated prior to the pandemic,...

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - According to Emerson Aguirre Medina, the president of the Association of Banana Growers of Colombia (Augura), despite the challenges that the Colombian banana sector has faced this year, exports in 2020 are expected to...

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Russia’s government has declared two employees of the Colombian Embassy in Moscow "personae non gratae" following the expulsion of two Russian diplomats from the South American country due to what local media reported was...

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - (Reuters) Colombia’s daily confirmed cases of coronavirus reached their highest level since mid-August on Thursday, December 17th, as the government warned people against large holiday gatherings. The Andean country, which has had a total of...