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Four entities, two private and two public, made a million-dollar bet to conserve one of the largest water sources in the country, the Chingaza páramoto which they will invest more than 5,700 million pesos in the next three years.(Also read: When will you be able to receive the 500,000 Social Prosperity Bonus?) Bavaria, the Mayor's Office of Bogotá, the Government of Cundinamarca and the Santo Domingo Foundation joined forces around that purpose, which seeks to protect more than 2,100 hectares of this ecosystem.The mobilization of these resources will be carried out within the framework of 'miPáramo', a program that has…

Publicly traded companies will obtain their financial results for the fourth quarter of 2022. Yesterday it was the turn of Argos and Mining Cement. Both reported to the Financial Superintendence an increase in their income but a drop in their profits.(You can also read: Latam offers Viva re-accommodation for its passengers: this is what it proposes) At the end of 2022, Argos Cement there was a record high in terms of consolidated revenue, with a total of 11.7 trillion pesos, which represents a growth of 19 percent compared to 2021.However, the net profit for the year was 214,814 million pesos,…

Following the boost that worker-owned savings arose for the last quarter of 2022, the results at the end of last January contributed to accentuate the growing trend that these resources brought since, only in that month, they recorded profits of 14 billion pesos. According to figures from Asofondos, total savings, which are owned by more than 18.5 million contributing workers, reached 360 billion pesos. The profits weigh close to 70 percent within the total of the worker savings.(Also read: The warnings of former President César Gaviria to the pension reform) "The data from recent months have given a positive turn…

The Minister of Transportation, Guillermo Reyes, seeks to open a negotiation table with the taxi drivers and thus avoid the scheduled blockades in the country's capital and in Colombia.The idea is to do the same as agreed 20 days ago with the applications, advance in the construction stage of the bill that seeks to regulate applications in Colombia. Reyes, summoned a meeting to the union in order to listen to them and discuss with them the points that generate nonconformity and before the reaction to maintain the protests regardless of the result of the meeting, he called for the protests…