Fiscal austerity will hinder the Santos agenda
The global financial crisis hit Colombia’s economy hard. Although the numbers have improved in recent months, the country’s unemployment rate remains above ten percent and is the highest among Latin…
The global financial crisis hit Colombia’s economy hard. Although the numbers have improved in recent months, the country’s unemployment rate remains above ten percent and is the highest among Latin…
Colombia’s main asset to access the Asian market is its major hindrance. The Buenaventura port on the Pacific coast with its deficient infrastructure, together with corruption and violence, is not…
Colombia’s international agenda has lately been intensely focused on security: helping other Latin American countries in the fight against drug trafficking and criminal activity, striking blow after blow against illegal…
Panama’s granting of political asylum to Maria del Pilar Hurtado, former director of Colombia’s intelligence service DAS, appears to be proof of the political insecurity in Colombia, and of the…
The stock exchange integration between Chile, Peru and Colombia may be a prelude to closer cooperation in trade issues between the three countries. President Juan Manuel Santos has already proposed…
Nicaragua has decided to star a new Latin American soap opera: “Borders in the water.” This is the third (or is it the tenth? I’ve lost count) sequel to the…
President Santos’s efforts to root out corruption seem genuine, but given the scale of the problem, they are also risky. As I have written in previous columns, I have been…
Both the United States and Colombia have expressed the desire for the two nations to develop a “true partnership.” They say the relationship will become more than just a fight…
At COP515,000 pesos per month or roughly $278, the Colombian minimum wage is the second highest in all of Latin America in terms of GDP per capita. At first glance,…