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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) commented on the reforms that the government of President Petro plans to carry out in the country.

The Ministry of the Environment (MinAmbiente) published the Terms of Reference for the request of withdrawal or reclassification of forest reserves established by Law 2ª of 1959.

The government filed a bill that seeks to add more than CoP$25.4T to the National General Budget (PGN) in 2023. Ecopetrol (NYSE: EC) dividends play a key role in this.

Carlos Gustavo Cano broke his silence with a letter signed as a professor at Universidad de Los Andes and former co-director of Colombia’s Central Bank.

The ACP’s Francisco José Lloreda spoke about the difficult prospects for companies to invest in Colombia.

Colombia’s Central Bank (BanRep) released Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) figures January 2023. Here are the details.

Finance Minister (MinHacienda) Jose Antonio Ocampo gave an interview to Globovisión talking about the possibilities of Venezuela exporting natural gas to Colombia.

The Ministry of Finance (MinHacienda) sent a letter to the Board of Directors of Ecopetrol (NYSE: EC), informing them that in the March meeting the government will change all of their previous members.

Colombia’s Director of Public Credit, José Roberto Acosta, and the Director of the National Planning Department (DPN), Jorge Iván González, discussed the importance of oil and gas to the country’s public finances.

Almost exactly five years ago, I wrote a “What We Think” entitled “Still I look to find a reason to believe” about searching for optimistic signs in a complex situation as Colombia went into an election year (2018). This morning the Tim Harden song that inspired the title came up at random on Spotify and, listening to the words, I thought about ‘recycling’ the lyrics as a structure for current events.