Exports from Colombia to the United Kingdom exceeded US$450 million in 2021
The Colombian-British Chamber of Commerce (Britcham Colombia) announced the election of Santiago Uribe as the entity’s new executive director. Regarding this appointment, Jaime González Moore, president of the board of directors, and Uribe spoke with LR about the commercial activity between Colombia and the United Kingdom. According to González, binational relations between the two countries […]
US Labor Board Charges Starbucks Company With Retaliatory Firings
The agency’s regional director in Buffalo said in a filing Friday that the company unlawfully interfered with employee rights by firing six and retaliating against others. The complaints were brought to the agency by Workers United, the labor group that has prevailed in votes at more than 50 of the company’s US stores, beginning with […]
Abelardo De La Espriella will present the new album ‘Navegante’ with a private concert
Abelardo De La Espriella continues to increase his music catalog withn the release of ‘Navegante’, a new album that pays homage to travel and masters, in a cabaret atmospherewhere universal love is the protagonist. The new project will be presented at an intimate concert to be held at the Pabellón de Cristal in Barranquilla on […]
Emerging currencies of Latin America, stronger since the conflict in Ukraine
The covid-19 pandemic caused a global economic crisis, which mainly affected emerging economies and caused their currencies to devalue, as was the case of the Colombian peso, which exceeded $4,000 for the first time in 2020. Since then, the emerging currencies in Latin America had been struggling to find recovery as the economy revived. But […]
Maluma and La Haus invested US$1 million to donate new houses in Medellín
Colombian singer Maluma announced that, through Proptech La Haus, in which he is an investor, he will build houses in Medellín to donate houses to disadvantaged people. “Today a change begins in my city, the city in which we all feel at home, but where unfortunately not everyone has a home,” said the singer in […]
Florida Governor Signed Law Against Disney’s Self-Governing Privileges
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation to strip Walt Disney Co. of its self-governing privileges in the state, saying the entertainment giant will end up paying more taxes under the new legislation. “We really need to get away from this kind of treatment,” DeSantis said at a signing ceremony Friday. “Don’t worry, we’ve got it […]
The Obamas leave Spotify and look for a new house
The Obamas leave Spotify and look for a new house Friday, April 22, 2022 The Obamas leave Spotify and look for a new house Bloomberg The Obamas’ production company, Higher Ground, will not sign a new deal with Spotify, according to Bloomberg. The company is in talks with other audio platforms for a deal that […]
Per capita spending on life insurance is $200,000, according to the first Fasecolda census
The insurers of the country and Fasecolda carried out the first census of life and personal insurance, with a cutoff for the second half of 2021. The analysis showed that debtor group life insurance, personal accidents, high-cost illnesses and collective group life are the ones with the greatest coverage. Specifically, 19 million people have debtor […]
Tourism in Latin America regains strength after Easter
One of the industries most affected by the arrival of the pandemic was tourism. After falling drastically in 2020, the international travel they recovered just 4% in 2021, according to the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO). However, as this agency recently reported, tourist activity started strongly in 2022. Despite remaining below pre-crisis levels, according to Statista […]
The dynamics of hybrid work that are here to stay in post-pandemic times
Two years after the pandemic began and with it new dynamics emerged that transformed the way of working, various studies have taken the pulse of how the labor trends that have emerged have evolved. In particular, it is evaluated how open employers and workers are to establishing them definitively or if, on the contrary, they […]