Bogotá to Enter Lockdown Amid Concerns over New Coronavirus Strain
Colombia's capital will enter a strict quarantine until Tuesday due to rising coronavirus infection numbers and suspicions a new variant...
January 7, 2021Topic
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Latin America Reacts to Covid-19 Surge with New Restrictions As Brazil Remains Inert
January brought a case surge in Latin America. After a drop in the curve in October and November, in December...
January 6, 2021
Boat With More Than a Dozen Migrants Sinks off Colombia
Rescue workers in Colombia were searching for five migrants missing after their boat carrying 16 people sank as it tried...
January 5, 2021
Colombia’s Bogotá Puts Three Neighborhoods in Quarantine Once More
Colombia’s capital Bogota will implement strict two-week quarantines in three neighborhoods beginning Tuesday to try and control a second wave...
January 4, 2021
Colombia Minimum Wage to Rise 3.5% to Around US$260 per Month in 2021
Colombia's minimum wage will increase 3.5% in 2021, President Ivan Duque said in a Twitter message on Tuesday, December 30th,...
December 30, 2020
Colombia’s Oil Industry Faces Continued Coronavirus Slump
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - A measure of the pandemic's impact is that Colombia's output in 2020 is averaging 100,000...
December 24, 2020
Colombia’s Banana Sector Aspires to Achieve Exports of US$1 Billion in 2021
According to Emerson Aguirre Medina, the president of the Association of Banana Growers of Colombia (Augura), despite the challenges that...
December 24, 2020
Russia Expels Two Colombian Embassy Employees In Tit-For-Tat Move
Russia’s government has declared two employees of the Colombian Embassy in Moscow diplomats "personae non gratae" following the expulsion of...
December 23, 2020
Colombia Daily Coronavirus Cases Reach Highest Number Since August
Colombia’s daily confirmed cases of coronavirus reached their highest level since mid-August on Thursday, December 17th, as the government warned...
December 18, 2020