Economy

Few countries have seen economic growth as consistently as Colombia, where I lived as a student in a university exchange programme in 1977 and 1978. Over the past 50 years, only once – in 1999 – did the growth take a negative turn. However, because of its recent history, challenged by security and drug-related conflicts, Colombia has been...

Latin America is a region on the rise. Politically stable, economically prosperous and with a strong vision, countries like Chile, Mexico, Colombia and Peru are growing at enviable rates, setting themselves apart from the regions’ previous era, which came to be called “the lost decade”. While the continent keeps testing integration formulas,...