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This is a country where banks still charge you for the privilege of looking after your money. Dickensian some would say.

Will Banco de la República upgrade its November meeting to a "decision" meeting in order to cut rates from 13.25% and start the easing cycle?

Banco de la República left interest rates at 13.25%, a terminal rate that needs to come down ASAP. The cut doesn't need to be radical but at least signal that the easing cycle has begun.

According to J.P. Morgan, this was a rejection of Petro presidency. That is clear for all to see. Where they are a little off is suggesting that this will impact the reform process.

Perhaps, instead of wasting time and money on lawyers, beverage companies should have spent their cash on R&D for new healthier products.

Colombia's Finance Ministry and the National Business Association of Colombia (ANDI) have spent weeks and months asking for rate cuts. Will they get what they want?

While we're seeing many headlines about the Colombian peso being the global top performer in 2023, this is mostly due to the sell off in the fourth quarter last year.

ANDI) and the Ministerio de Hacienda moved together on this plea — in what is hopefully the start of a more harmonious relationship.

Colombia has the fourth highest percentage of people living in conditions of extreme poverty among Latin American countries studied by ECLAC.

In an unwieldy city without the resources to set itself on the right path, the candidates for Bogotá mayor are all destined to fail — just as others have been before.