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Despite the inconveniences that the agrarian reform has had to start with the purchase of land, Cecilia López, Minister of Agriculture, says that the first acquisitions will be made in the coming weeks. However, in order to move forward, he asks ranchers to really offer him the most productive and underutilized ones that are in the Caribbean and Magdalena Medio. and to the mills that also collaborate in the north of Cauca, in the midst of a conflict that does not cease in that area of ​​the country. How many people have applied for land?We have about 320,000 applications, but…

In his weekly column Cuentas Claras, Mauricio Galindo, economic editor of EL TIEMPO, offers curious data on the news that happened in the last 7 days. On this occasion, as a monarchy according to The Economist is the best economy in the world, how is unemployment in the OECD countries, the growth of the Colombian economy, the constant in which the blockades of the roads and highways of the country, among others A Monarchy is the best democracyThe best democracy in the world is a monarchy, according to The Economist: Norway, the kingdom of Harald V, scores 9.81 out of…

After the tax reform that will be completed in 2022 and the health reform that was recently filed in the Congress of the Republic, the The National Government is structuring what it will do to the pension system.(You may be interested in: César Gaviria: "We must strengthen the health system, not destroy it") Until now, several members of the Executive and the president Gustavo Petro himself have given some details of what this bill would bring. Considering this information, César Gaviria, former president of Colombia and current director of the Liberal Party, presents a "diagnosis" of the current system.He states…

Of all the structural problems that Colombia currently has, that of labor informality, which affects 60 percent of the population, is the largest and the one that urgently requires an immediate solution, because it would allow the country to improve on issues such as savings, taxation, production and economic growthamong other fronts. It will not be an easy task, Germán Arce, president of the National Trade Union Council (CGN), told EL TIEMPO, warning that the Government, businessmen and, in general, the entire country have a great opportunity today to put an end to this problem, for which reason he called…