Colombia. With about $4 billion pesos, the Colombian government capitalized the regional channel Tele Islas, which operates on the islands of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina, according to the Ministry of ICTs.
The announcement was made by María Carolina Hoyos, Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Technologies, following the channel's first board meeting this year. The official said that the investment seeks to make the channel become a benchmark for the regional television industry in Colombia.
He added that with this capitalization, it is expected that locally produced television content will increase, through cultural and journalistic programs, as they will now be able to count on better technology for their development.
In a visit to the channel last December, the Minister of ICTs, Diego Molano Vega, had known first-hand the economic crisis that the entity was experiencing, and that practically led it to bankruptcy.
But this capitalization is also part of the shock plan that the Colombian government defined to deal with the crisis unleashed on the islands by the ruling of the International Court of Justice in The Hague in the litigation that handed over part of the territorial waters to Nicaragua.
