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The new Ecopetrol subsidiary will be responsible for the subscription and execution of the petroleum contracts that the company has in Mexico.

"Medellín was the city where we had to start out," says Alejandro Herrera. "Everything is here, but we’re not limiting ourselves. We want to be a multinational."

Starbucks has partnered with the Inter-American Developmental Bank on a $4 million USD loan program for 2,000 small-scale framers, most of whom will be women.