Colombia finance minister to insist central bank start cutting rates
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombian Finance Minister Ricardo Bonilla, who is also a director of the country’s central bank, said on Wednesday he will ask the board to start cutting the…
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombian Finance Minister Ricardo Bonilla, who is also a director of the country’s central bank, said on Wednesday he will ask the board to start cutting the…
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia’s government and the Estado Mayor Central (EMC), the largest FARC dissident group, on Tuesday said in a joint statement they would begin peace talks on Oct.…
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Coca crops in Colombia covered 230,000 hectares (568,000 acres) in 2022, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said on Monday, up 13% from 2021…
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia’s flag-carrier airline Avianca will invest $473 million to grow its fleet by 16 aircraft as it looks to increase the number of routes on offer, Chief…
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia’s government and industry associations called on the central bank to lower interest rates on Monday and urged business leaders to resume investment decisions, in a bid…
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia will need to spend up to 2 trillion pesos ($487 million) to repair around 580 bridges that are in critical condition, investment that would leave the…
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia’s banks have called on the country’s central bank to tackle liquidity issues amid lower-than-expected government spending and compliance with international regulatory framework Basel III, which strengthens…
BOGOTA (Reuters) – U.S companies operating in Colombia are not looking to pull out of the South American country, but comments and plans put forward by the government could see…
By Elida Moreno PANAMA CITY (Reuters) – The head of Panama’s migration agency lashed out at Colombia on Friday, slamming its southern neighbor for failure to help control the flow…
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Three offices meant to attend Haitian, Cuban and Venezuelan migrants hoping to reach the United States will open in Colombia, the Andean country’s foreign ministry said on…
By Nelson Bocanegra and Carlos Vargas BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia’s central bank unanimously held the benchmark interest rate at 13.25% for the second time in a row on Monday, amid…
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia’s government on Saturday presented a budget proposal worth 502.6 trillion pesos ($127.8 billion) for 2024 to Congress, 19% greater than this year, the Finance Ministry said,…
By Oliver Griffin BOGOTA (Reuters) – Deforestation in Colombia fell 29.1% in 2022 versus the previous year spurred by sharp decreases in the country’s Amazon region, the government said on…
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia risks falling out of compliance with its fiscal rule through greater spending proposed for 2024 and the financial impact of reforms being debated in Congress, an…
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia’s Senate voted down a measure to approve the sale of recreational cannabis to adults late on Tuesday, although supporters including the government of leftist President Gustavo…
By Rodrigo Campos and Nelson Bocanegra NEW YORK (Reuters) – Colombia will continue to extract fossil fuels for “much longer” until it has other exports to replace that revenue, while…
BOGOTA (Reuters) – A labor reform pushed by Colombia’s government was shelved on Tuesday after committee legislators in Congress’ lower house failed to reach a quorum in a scheduled first…
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Former Colombia presidential candidate and minister Oscar Ivan Zuluaga violated the law when he received money from disgraced Brazilian construction firm Odebrecht, the Colombian attorney general’s office…
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia’s current account deficit shrank 36.3% in the first quarter compared with the same period last year, to $3.42 billion, the central bank said on Thursday, due…
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia’s financial regulator on Thursday suspended trading in shares of Grupo SURA, Grupo Argos and Grupo Nutresa, after top shareholders in the companies announced negotiations to make…
By Luis Jaime Acosta BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia’s government on Monday suspended a national ceasefire with the Estado Mayor Central (EMC) armed group in some provinces, following the murder of…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States will dedicate specially trained asylum officers to new refugee centers in Guatemala and Colombia, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told reporters on…
By Luis Jaime Acosta, Oliver Griffin and Sabrina Valle BOGOTA/HOUSTON (Reuters) – Exxon Mobil Corp is in talks with Colombia’s government in hopes of recovering its investment in a fracking…
By Nelson Bocanegra BOGOTA (Reuters) – Analysts are divided on whether Colombia’s central bank board will hold the interest rate steady for the first time in 18 months or back…
By Jeff Mason and Julia Symmes Cobb WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden praised Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Thursday for his country’s treatment of refugees from Venezuela and…