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The investment, said to be $70 million USD of convertible credit, brings the airline into proximity with both bankrupt Colombian carrier Avianca and Mexican carrier Volaris.

Minister Karen Abudinen has resigned to the metaphorical cemetery she promised during an April television interview. Though no one has accused her so far of criminal wrongdoing, questions remain as to how her office could fall victim to a quarter billion US dollar fraud without...

84.5% of what Colombia exports to the world in non-mining, non fuel products goes to countries with which the country has a current free trade agreement. Today there are 17 bilateral and multilateral trade agreements with approximately 65 countries. Growth in exports to these...

55% of Colombians support more trade barriers to imports of foreign goods and services, while a majority of 54% of Colombians still agree that “Overall, globalization is a good thing for my country.”

On a more optimistic note, the MSCI COLCAP finally appears to be gaining a foothold in 2021, we are no longer bottom of the pile and for foreigners in particular, there are bargains to be had.

Tickets have gone on sale for five new national routes: San Andrés-Pereira, San Andrés- Barranquilla, San Andrés-Bucaramanga, San Andrés-Cartagena and Cartagena-Bucaramanga.

Viva Air CEO Felix Antelo, a native of Argentina himself, has stated publicly that the airline expects to connect North & South America “from Buenos Aires to New York” through its Medellín hub.

City council member Daniel Carvalho has said enough is enough, and that the mayor’s mismanagement is putting Colombia’s second largest enterprise and Medellín’s single largest municipal revenue source at grave risk.

Police quickly appeared and had to save Verhagen from a lynching by the indignant crowd that the prostitutes had organized.

What can observers take from events in Peru? And what takeaways are relevant for Colombia’s upcoming 2022 elections, and for economic and civil liberty more broadly in the Americas? Daniel Raisbeck has some prescient observations.