Colombia harvests a peace dividend
A return to near normality in recently terrorist-ridden Colombia has seen energy companies moving into the country to explore its rich carbon reserves, writes Rainbow Nelson in Cartagena.
Source: Heavy Lift & Project Forwarding International, March/April 2010 Issue – While neighbouring Venezuela falls off an economic cliff, Colombia is basking in an unprecedented moment in the country’s development, with record foreign investment more than tripling the levels of heavy lift cargo flowing into the country.
A doubling of investment in its armed forces and policing by the Government of Alvaro Uribe since 2002 has diminished the security issues that limited foreign investment in the 1990s, creating a boom in investor confidence in the last decade.
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