Colombia Business News
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In this week's Colombia Business News Recap, Collective Mining keeps finding gold, President Gustavo Petro threatens the private sector with "forced investments," General Motors to close its Colombia factory, Alvaro Uribe is formally charged with bribery and witness tampering, Colombia to open 5 more consulates in the US, the US opens work and summer job visas to Colombians, the mammoth UNGRD scandal threatens the Petro administrat...
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In this week’s Colombia Business News Recap:
- Canadian Sacha Lemaire Lepage facing Narcotics, Firearms & Wildlife Abuse Charges In Colombia https://www.financecolombia.com/canadian-sacha-lemaire-lepage-facing-narcotics-firearms-wildlife-abuse-charges-in-colombia/
- Jimmy Carter’s Colombia Blacklist Revealed https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/colombia/2024-04-15/jimmy-carters-colombia-blacklist-revealed
- Colombian Kidnapper Hi...
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In this week’s Colombia Business News Recap for April 13, 2024:
- Gringos gone wild! “Cannabis Jimmy,” Californian pot producer caught near Medellín. https://www.policia.gov.co/noticia/ciudadano-estadounidense-realizaba-tours-cannabicos-extranjeros-sabaneta
- Colombian economic growth stalls, 277,000 jobs lost in January & February alone. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstreams/5a4de9c0-52ef-4b3f-8592-249995492a9a/downl...
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In this week’s Colombia Business News Recap for April 4, 2024:
- Petro’s health reform buried in the Colombian senate
- Geopark (NYSE: GPRK) launches a stock buyback
- Avianca launches flights to Montreal & Paris, but gets fined for unfair competition
- New Colombian Public Debt ETF launched
- Antioquia’s governor asks for public donations to complete highways
- Improvements in the road connecting Medellín to its international airport
- Economi...
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March 24, 2024 • 42 mins
In this Finance Colombia exclusive, Francisco “Pacho” Santos sits down for an in-depth interview with Loren Moss to discuss current events in Colombia. Santos is the former vice president of Colombia under Alvaro Uribe, and former Ambassador to the United States during the Ivan Duque administration.
Santos is equally outspoken and fluent in English as he is in Spanish, and shares his opinion on:
Santos is equally outspoken and fluent in English as he is in Spanish, and shares his opinion on:
- Petro’s frustration, improvisation...
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March 16, 2024 • 54 mins
In The Colombia Business News Recap for March 16 2023:
- Why did the US release one of Colombia’s 10 most wanted criminals after he crossed the border illegally from México into Texas?
- President Gustavo Petro’s frustration is reaching the boiling point as his “revolutions” fail and he calls for a constituent assembly (constitutional convention).
- JetSmart launches domestic operations in Colombia
- Luz Adriana Camargo is the new attorney...
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February 18, 2024 • 68 mins
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- Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro’s Struggle to Name An Attorney General.
- Petro’s improvisational governance causing wide ranging problems for Colombia. · Medellín’s Mayoral Runner Up & Quintero relative kicked out of city council.
- Medellín Mayor “Fico’s” first emb...
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November 14, 2023 • 36 mins
Colombia Business News Recap: November Post Election Analysis, Rising Insecurity in Colombia
- Electoral recap and analysis: https://www.financecolombia.com/what-jumps-out-musings-about-colombias-local-elections-and-context-regarding-the-rebuke-of-president-petro/
- Hope Is Fading for Petro’s Total Peace After Díaz Kidnapping and Suspension of EMC Negotiations: https://www.financecolombia.com/hope-is-fading-for-petros-total-peace-aft...
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October 8, 2023 • 21 mins
It’s election season, so lots of political news: No surprise there.
· Daniel Quintero abruptly resigns amidst multiple scandals
· Tecnoglass moves HQ to Miami
· Nasty double assassination in Medellín: Is it political?
· Bribery charges against Alvaro Uribe are revived.
· NY Mayor Eric Adams visits Colombian border with Panamá.
· 6 Colombian assassins assassinated in Ecuador
· Ikea ...
· Daniel Quintero abruptly resigns amidst multiple scandals
· Tecnoglass moves HQ to Miami
· Nasty double assassination in Medellín: Is it political?
· Bribery charges against Alvaro Uribe are revived.
· NY Mayor Eric Adams visits Colombian border with Panamá.
· 6 Colombian assassins assassinated in Ecuador
· Ikea ...
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August 1, 2023 • 29 mins
Like Colombia’s own “Hunter Biden” saga, President Gustavo Petro’s son Nicolás has been arrested after his scorned ex-wife accused him of taking over $100,000 USD from a narcotrafficker for his father’s political campaign—and then spending the cash on himself! Justice served…or political witch-hunt?
Also in this week’s Colombia Business News Recap:
Also in this week’s Colombia Business News Recap:
- Is Mayor Quintero to blame for this year’s lame Feria de las Flores in Medellín?
- I...
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Colombian Air Force Crash, Petro scandal takes weird turn, Uribe acolyte charged with corruption...
It’s been a quiet week in Lake Guatavita as vacation season arrives in Colombia. Laborers receive an extra paycheck mandated by law, and June sees three national holidays during the month, plus one at the beginning of July. Congress is out of session, and many are on vacation. ·
It’s been a quiet week in Lake Guatavita as vacation season arrives in Colombia. Laborers receive an extra paycheck mandated by law, and June sees three national holidays during the month, plus one at the beginning of July. Congress is out of session, and many are on vacation. ·
- Colombian Air Force training crash leaves one dead, ...
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June 25, 2023 • 28 mins
This week at Colombia Business News Recap, host Loren Moss takes a deep dig into Colombia’s precious metals mining sector with Paul Harris, the organizer of the Andes region’s most important mining sector events, now expanding to México as well.
The two discuss recent trouble at Zijin Continental Gold’s Buriticá mine and the Petro Administration’s response (or lack thereof). Some positive developments at Collective Mining’s new proj...
The two discuss recent trouble at Zijin Continental Gold’s Buriticá mine and the Petro Administration’s response (or lack thereof). Some positive developments at Collective Mining’s new proj...
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In this week’s episode:
- Gustavo Petro calls for an end to free markets and laments the fall of the Berlin Wall – original video of his speech here. Berlin government information on the Berlin Wall and its victims here.
- Marta Lucia Ramirez implicated in unfolding Italian bribes scandal, while her husband’s firm is involved in a legally imperiled construction project in San Andrés, Colombia. Original article where she went after a...
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June 15, 2023 • 17 mins
The rapid growth of Barranquilla-based Tecnoglass (NYSE: TGLS) makes the company seem like a high-growth startup, but the Colombian-origin aluminum and glass manufacturer just celebrated its 40th birthday. In Colombia, the company is well known as a socially conscious national champion, but even though over 90% of its products are exported to the United States, the company still has only around 1% of total market share.
With its hur...
With its hur...
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June 11, 2023 • 31 mins
In this edition:
- Colombia rejoices as four children ages 1-13 years old found alive 39 days after plane crashes into deep jungle.
- President Gustavo Petro’s own Nannygate scandal involving his chief of staff turns deadly as a key witness, a police lieutenant colonel is found dead of an apparent suicide, and violent protests by Petro’s supporters leave another officer responding to riots in a coma.
- Chilean airline JetSmart is movin...
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December 26, 2022 • 22 mins
In this edition: · Hidroituango is finally generating (a little bit of) electricity, but only one bidder showed up for Daniel Quintero’s public tender to finish the project. · Peru has lodged a formal protest against Colombia’s President Petro, accusing him of meddling in their affairs. · President Petro has announced plans to purchase 16 new combat jets—after running on a platform opposing new fighters. · Colombia has established ...
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November 7, 2022 • 24 mins
In this week's Colombia business news recap:
- Tecnoglass continues to break records
- EPM postpones the bid process to finish Hidroituango for the fifth time
- Mayor McMeat and the cattle ranchers
- Emerging new restaurants among Latin America's best
- Tax Reform has passed (That means big tax hikes!)
Events to attend:
CGS Medellín 2022 – November 8-9 https://colombiagold.co/
Miami Rum Renaissance - November 12-13 https://www.rumrenaissan...
- Tecnoglass continues to break records
- EPM postpones the bid process to finish Hidroituango for the fifth time
- Mayor McMeat and the cattle ranchers
- Emerging new restaurants among Latin America's best
- Tax Reform has passed (That means big tax hikes!)
Events to attend:
CGS Medellín 2022 – November 8-9 https://colombiagold.co/
Miami Rum Renaissance - November 12-13 https://www.rumrenaissan...
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October 31, 2022 • 42 mins
In this week’s Podcast:
Neighboring Brazil’s presidential election
A week of protests throughout Colombia
The falling Colombian Peso
Daily revolving chairmanship at Ecopetrol
Petro’s land redistribution deal with the ranchers
Daniel Quintero’s crisis at EPM and Hidroituango
Some can’t miss events during November!
See the full article here: https://wp.me/p5zFfx-6vh
Neighboring Brazil’s presidential election
A week of protests throughout Colombia
The falling Colombian Peso
Daily revolving chairmanship at Ecopetrol
Petro’s land redistribution deal with the ranchers
Daniel Quintero’s crisis at EPM and Hidroituango
Some can’t miss events during November!
See the full article here: https://wp.me/p5zFfx-6vh
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October 12, 2022 • 19 mins
Formerly known as the Colombia Gold Summit, CGS Medellín is back bigger and better for 2022. - https://colombiagold.co/ - The symposium and trade show hosts precious metals mining executives, operators and investors active in Colombia and the greater Andean region involved in gold, silver and copper extraction. Organized by Paul Harris, also the publisher of CGS Research, CGS Medellín along with its newer sibling, CGS Quito have be...
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July 5, 2022 • 16 mins
In this week's news recap, monkeypox is confirmed in Colombia, the Truth commission issues its final report, President-Elect Petro appoints a foreign minister from the conservative party, a gruesome prison fire leaves at least 52 dead, and the San Andres archipelago mostly escapes Tropical Storm bonnie.
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