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Foreign direct investment fell 9.7% in Colombia during the first eight months of 2026, a sign of greater caution among international investors toward the country. The decline confirms that the inflow of resources from abroad is losing momentum at a time when the Colombian economy is facing uncertainty due to international instability and seeking to […]
President Abelardo de la Espriella removed Ricardo Valencia from his position as director of the National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE) just 26 days after he took office. The departure came after the official publicly stated that he had found no anomalies in the economic indicators for July, the final month of Gustavo Petro’s administration, […]
The government of Abelardo de la Espriella is preparing a reform of the structure of the state that includes eliminating five ministries by abolishing some portfolios and merging others, with the goal of reducing public spending and making the national administration smaller. The initiative seeks to reduce the number of ministries in Colombia from 18 […]
Four members of the House of Representatives and one senator presented a bill in the Congress of Colombia called ‘Fly at a Fair Price,’ which seeks to make changes to the way airlines sell tickets and respond to situations that affect passengers. Representatives David Alejandro Toro Ramirez, Miguel Angel Rubio Bravo, Renso Alexander Garcia and […]
Colombia is not only shutting down negotiation tables. It is also taking stock of the bill. Four years after Gustavo Petro’s government launched what it called “Total Peace” as a strategy to engage simultaneously with guerrillas, dissident factions and criminal organizations, the country now faces an uncomfortable question: How much public money was spent sustaining […]
Perhaps the most striking name by which the white-tailed deer (Odocoileus goudotii) is known in Colombia is the one given to it in the department of Boyaca: spirit of the paramo. In this part of the country, it inhabits paramo and high Andean forest areas, especially in the Siscunsi-Oceta (Mongua, Mongui, Sogamoso and Aquitania), Cortadera […]
In what constitutes an important achievement for the government of Abelardo de la Espriella, the Third and Fourth Economic Committees of the Congress of the Republic approved this Monday, September 14, the amount of the budget bill of 634.9 trillion pesos (US$204.1 million) for 2027. The proposal by the Historic Pact, an opposition party, which […]
Republican and Democratic officials in Nashville have united behind a plan to rename Nashville International Airport in honor of Dolly Parton, creating an unusual point of agreement amid a broader political fight over control of the airport. The Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority voted 6-0 on Sept. 11 to rename the city’s airport in honor of […]
The Colombian mission with more than 20 scientists that is in the Pacific Ocean to understand its behavior and strengthen the permanent monitoring of conditions associated with the El Niño phenomenon has already surpassed one-third of its scheduled time. The researchers are sailing aboard the Colombian Navy’s marine scientific research vessel ARC Simon Bolivar, and […]
Colombian cyclist Santiago Buitrago earned a reported €36,255 (about US$41,865) in prize money at the 2026 Vuelta a España. His earnings included the mountains classification title, mountain-climb prizes and payments linked to his time in the race’s climbing jersey. The Bahrain Victorious rider did not win a stage, although he came close twice. He finished […]
Colombiamoda will close its 2026 global circuit in Paris, where five Colombian brands will showcase their collections from Oct. 1 to 5 as part of an agenda aimed at strengthening connections between Colombia’s fashion industry and European buyers and other industry players. Led by Inexmoda, the initiative will bring proposals centered on designer fashion, craftsmanship, […]
Israeli Culture Minister Miki Zohar has said he will seek to revoke the citizenship of filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor after their documentary NAZA won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival. In a post on X on Sept. 13, Zohar accused the filmmakers of treason and condemned the film’s portrayal of […]
In an unusual development, the alleged ‘smuggling kingpin’ in Colombia, Diego Marin Buitrago, also known by the alias ‘Papa Pitufo,’ would have sued the Colombian state because the arrest warrant against him allegedly caused psychological harm to him and his family. Marin Buitrago would have stated that he suffers from distress, anguish, anxiety, depression, uncertainty, […]
Barranquilla Carnival is crossing the Atlantic to join Shakira during her residency in Madrid. More than 100 cultural practitioners, including musicians and dancers, traveled from Barranquilla to Spain to take part in the programming surrounding the Colombian singer’s 12 concerts and bring some of the Caribbean celebration’s most representative traditions to one of Europe’s major […]
An unprecedented constitutional crisis is tightening around Westminster as the first ministers of Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland formally unite to demand the right to self-determination, openly warning UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham that he cannot stop the dissolution of the United Kingdom. In a historic summit held in Cardiff on Monday, Scottish National Party […]
