Colombia-Venezuela trade grows, despite economic slowdowns

No love is lost between Álvaro Uribe and Hugo Chávez, but that won’t stop Colombians from sending an estimated US$5.4 billion in exports to neighboring Venezuela this year.

The expected figure will be only a slight uptick from the US$5.2 billion sent in 2007, but significant terms of the Colombian economy’s deceleration and the current international economic turmoil, the president of the Colombian-Venezuelan Chamber, María Luisa Chiappe, told La FM.