The almighty dollar and the Colombian peso

As the USD nears ever closer to COP$5,000, Mat Di Salvo takes a look at why this is happening and what it means for the country. The Colombian...

Who’s That Girl? The Female Faces on Colombia’s Bank Notes

  [caption id="attachment_31976" align="aligncenter" width="563"] Photo by Jonathan Hernández[/caption] Which women can you confidently...

Peso falls off a cliff – and just keeps falling

The Colombian peso has been in free fall since July 2014. After largely staying within a range of COP$1,800-COP$2,000 to the US dollar since 2009,...

The peso’s plunge

[caption id="attachment_4605" align="alignright" width="300"] USD - Peso in the past year. Graph: xe.com[/caption] The Bogota Post talks to the...

Falling oil prices hit Colombian peso hard

[caption id="attachment_4358" align="aligncenter" width="580"] Colombia’s Finance Minister, Mauricio Cárdenas - World Economic Forum on Latin...

JP Morgan Raise Weighting: Boosts Peso

American financial services firm JP Morgan announced this week that they plan to add more Colombian debt to two investment indexes popular with...