
Colombia’s Petro Rejects Retirement Age of 62 for Women
The Colombia retirement age debate split economists and feminists on 30 September 2026, after Gustavo Petro rejected raising women's pension...
October 1, 2026Colombia news in English from The Rio Times — Bogotá politics, economy, peace process and culture.

The Colombia retirement age debate split economists and feminists on 30 September 2026, after Gustavo Petro rejected raising women's pension...
October 1, 2026
Colombia's president ordered Uribe case witness Juan Guillermo Monsalve moved to Cómbita prison on 30 September. His lawyer cites a...
September 30, 2026
Colombia unemployment rose to 9.4% in August 2026 from 8.6% a year earlier, as 126,000 jobs vanished. Factories led the...
September 30, 2026
Canada investment in Colombia is eight times its pre-2011 level, ambassador Elizabeth Williams says, as the trade deal turns 15...
September 30, 2026
Wadith Manzur, a Colombian senator-elect held since March 2026 in the UNGRD bribery case, stays in prison after the Supreme...
September 30, 2026
Colombia illegal gold mining is the target as ministers and military and police chiefs meet in southern Bolívar, where armed...
September 30, 2026
A Colombia prison transfer is reversed: INPEC sends Odebrecht-convicted ex-senator Antonio Guerra de la Espriella back to La Picota after...
September 30, 2026
Jhon Calzones murder: investigators in Colombia examine a seized phone, the La Cordillera gang and an order from Cómbita prison...
September 30, 2026
Colombia's COLCAP fell 0.79% to 2,559 on 29 September as Ecopetrol tracked oil lower; the peso firmed to 3,330 per...
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