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It has been a busy week for President Petro with visits to Santiago, Chile and Caracas, Venezuela.

CPI may yet go higher, obviously not to those seen on the streets of Caracas or Buenos Aires, but only Chile (13.3%) amongst the mainstream Latam economies has higher inflation.

Looking back on the week several data points were published; none of which were particularly positive.

Ironically despite the stubborn inflation, the Central Bank at this Friday's meeting will not be increasing rates.

The sun will rise again. In fact for many it is already showing signs of an appearance and even Colombia still has a story to tell.

The rambling report continues on an apparent fishing expedition and attempts to string together various histories and events in Barranquilla from between 10-20 years ago.

Earlier this week we had the equity market flows for March, a month when the index lost 3%, and we find that foreigners, whilst continuing their healthy participation at 34.8% were almost the largest net sellers. Now $30mn is not the end of the world however given the poor...

Last week United Airlines (NASDAQ: UAL) moved to remove longtime chairman and controlling shareholder Germán Efromovich from Avianca’s  (NYSE: AVH) (BVC: PFAVH), board of directors. Adding insult to injury, United installed Roberto Kriete as the board’s new chairman. All this...

Iván Duque won convincingly in a second-round run off election over leftwing candidate Gustavo Petro, a controversial former M-19 guerrilla member.

Colombians today will put either rightwing candidate Iván Duque or leftist Gustavo Petro in office for the next four years.