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  • Netanyahu to pioneer new diplomatic grounds in Latin America

    ISRAEL, 2017/09/13 Defying doomsayers concerned about Israel losing diplomatic clout, Benjamin Netanyahu is headed to Bogota, Argentina, and Mexico -- part other Latin American nations. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to depart for Latin America and the US on Sunday evening, marking the fifth time in some 15 months he will embark on ground-breaking trips to nations at no time before visited by a sitting Israeli prime minister.
  • Netanyahu’s Historic Latin American Tour to Highlight Israeli Tech Sector

    ISRAEL, 2017/09/10 Latin America is “hungry for Israeli technology,” a senior Foreign Ministry official said Tuesday ahead of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s historic visit to the region next week. Deputy Director General at the Foreign Ministry’s Latin America and Caribbean Division, Modi Ephraim, said the visit will have historic significance, as it will be the initial by a sitting Israeli prime minister.
  • PM Netanyahu leaves on historic visit to Latin America

    ISRAEL, 2017/09/10 Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will leave on Sunday evening for a working visit to Latin America. During his trip, Netanyahu will visit Argentina, Colombia and Mexico. This will be the initial visit by a sitting Israeli Prime Minister to Latin America. Paraguayan President Horacio Cartes will travel to Buenos Aires to meet Netanyahu. Netanyahu leaves for trip to Argentina, Mexico, and Columbia, then meets world leaders at UN General Assembly in New York. Accompanying Netanyahu is a delegation of Israeli businesspeople from the fields of agriculture, water, communications and energy. Members of the delegation will hold commercial meetings with their local counterparts. Eonomic events will as well be held in Argentina and Mexico, led by Netanyahu and the Argentine and Mexican heads of national.
  • China looks to deepen ties with Latin America

    ARGENTINA, 2016/12/03 China's president, Xi Jinping, has embarked on a week-long visit to Latin America that will include national visits to Ecuador, Peru and Chile. Mr Xi's trip comes instantly on the heels of a US presidential election that has called the next of US-Latin America relations into question, and highlights China's emergence as a key trade and investment partner for the region.
  • Peru-Colombia-Mexico-Chile Pacific Alliance boosts regional ties

    CHILE, 2015/12/26 Four years have passed since the Pacific Alliance united Peru with Colombia, Mexico and Chile and the benefits on the agreement are presently clear to see Peru has enjoyed sustained economic expansion during the completed decade, but with commodity prices falling in additional recent times the country’s government has been exploring new avenues for increase. Numerous sectors of the Andean country’s economy have by presently enjoyed rapid increase inclunding markets such as insurance and financial services, and the result has been an enlarged and affluent middle class. With this have come better amounts of disposable gain, much of it derived from the successes of the country’s extensive export-led industries.
  • Colombian-based glass business group ranks among Florida's leading glass companies

    COLOMBIA, 2015/06/02 In the context of an uncertain world economy, Colombia’s leading glass manufacturing business group made up of Energía Solar-ES Windows, Tecnoglass and Alutions is one of the few and fortunate enterprises that have not felt the pressures of current economic uncertainties. “On the contrary, we are observing a growing Colombian economy, dynamic, with strong national and foreign investments. And despite the revaluation, we are increasing our exports and national sales,” says José Manuel Daes, President of Energía Solar-ES Windows.
  • Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with South Korea in Seoul.

    SOUTH KOREA, 2013/02/22 Colombia's trade minister Sergio Diaz-Granados said that the government aimed to implement the agreement formerly the end of the year. The FTA, which still has to be approved by the Colombian congress and the South Korean congress, will eliminate tariffs on 96.1% of Colombian products exported to South Korea,
  • European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso

    EUROPEAN UNION, 2013/01/27 The European Union, Colombia and Peru are working to implement their free trade agreement on a provisional basis by the end of March, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said.