Colombia And China Strike Oil Deals
May 10th, 2012
Courtesy of The Wall Street Journal, a report on recent meetings between Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos Calderon and Chinese President Hu Jintao who signed deals to direct the Latin American nation’s exports to Asia. As the article notes: Colombian and Chinese officials struck agreements that may help direct much of the Latin American nation’s […]
Read more »Peru And Colombia: Breaking Free Of The Commodity Super Cycle
May 8th, 2012
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a look at the economic development of Peru and Colombia: How would South America’s economies fare if commodities suddenly collapsed? Probably not very well. Indeed, that is why many investors still view the region as a cyclical play on world, and especially Asian, growth. Yet over the past two decade […]
Read more »Colombia: Canada’s New Best Friend?
April 30th, 2012
Courtesy of The Globe and Mail, a report on the improving relationship between Canada and Colombia: It was just after daybreak on a hazy January morning in Bogota and the 300 bankers were bleary. Summoned at dawn to the auditorium at the foot of their 50-storey office tower, most of them had guessed that their […]
Read more »The Colombian ‘Miracle’
April 17th, 2012
Courtesy of The Washington Post, a report on Colombia’s economic success: The stereotype of Colombia — violent, chaotic, backward — seemed to be born out in recent days as the army and guerrillas grappled in the countryside and shadowy hit men gunned down a prominent land activist. But that Colombia seems ever more distant these […]
Read more »Colombia-Venezuela: Teaming up In Oil
March 31st, 2012
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a report on recent initiatives between Colombia and Venezuela to team up in the oil sector: “Zero,” said Hugo Chávez firmly, when asked almost three years ago what the chances were of Colombia’s state oil company Ecopetrol having a hand in developing Venezuela’s oil-rich Orinoco Belt. That was back when […]
Read more »Colombia’s Oil Boom
March 18th, 2012
Via The Economist, a look at Colombia’s oil boom: IT HAS attracted much less attention than the big deep-sea oil finds in Brazil, but Colombia is also enjoying an oil boom. Its output of crude has nearly doubled in the past six years, from 525,000 b/d in 2005 to a daily average of 914,000 last […]
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