America Colombia Several Colombian Pension Funds will invest US$1.212 million on national infrastructure to help the logistical development of the country, contributing to the lack of road framework
America Colombia The famed drug dealer Pablo Escobar imported 4 hippopotamus in 1981; since then they have reproduced and entered several ecosystems, to the point that the country has now officially declared them as an invasive species
America Colombia The UNHRC called upon the government to pacifically hold the upcoming elections and implement with greater magnitude the historical FARC peace accords
America Colombia The country’s Constitutional Court has ordered the national government to include the “non-binary” gender in official documents to promote inclusion for those who don’t necessarily identify with any specific sexual-orientation label
America Colombia The country has decriminalized abortion, as the constitutional court ruled five against four to legalization, after years pf protests demanding it; the decision follows a series of rulings in South America that lowered barriers on reproduction rights
America Colombia The National Administrative Department of Statistics just released a new study confirming that 2021 was effectively the year with the highest GDP growth the country has ever had, with an increase of 10,6%
America Colombia As the US is unable to fly many Venezuelan illegal immigrants back to their home country, the government has been sending many of them to Colombia, resulting in the Colombian government asking the US to find an alternative solution to this problem
America Colombia The “Artemisa Operation”, a military strategy to fight deforestation, has been extended; the plan includes declaring 30% of Colombian territory as protected area by the end of the year
America Colombia Victor Escobar became the first person in the country to die by euthanasia without having a terminal illness
America Colombia Authorities in the United States have accused a Colombian ex-military man, Mario Antonio Palacios, of participating in the plot to kill late Haitian President Jovenel Moise, whose assassination caused heavy political turmoil
America Colombia The state will receive a US$48.5 million loan from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to support its decarbonization and sustainability agenda
America Colombia A recent report by the UNHRC stated that during the turbulent protests that took place in April there were a total of 63 deaths, therefore, the UN requested the government to change its ways of dealing with manifestations to avoid more tragedies
America Colombia A Colombian family honoured their country’s traditional leaf-wrapped dishes by writing a dedicated cookbook, which was recently recognised as the ‘best cookbook in the world’ at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards in Paris