Colombian President-elect Juan Manuel Santos met with president of the World Bank Robert Zoellick in Mexico City Thursday, to discuss such issues as fighting poverty, economic growth, and Colombia’s ability to compete with Asia.
After the private breakfast the two leaders shared in the Mexican capital, Zoellick said that he had discussed “some of his plans to combat poverty and seek to improve the living conditions of people in Colombia and also how to strengthen long-term growth.”
“I have had the opportunity to work with President (Santos) before, and I have great respect for what he has achieved in his earlier work,” the World Bank president said.
On Wednesday Santos met with the acclaimed Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez at his residence near Mexico City, where he wrote his masterpiece, “One Hundred Years of Solitude.”