Colombia

BMI View: Colombia registered a trade deficit of US$116mn in August, after a surplus of US$343mn in July, taking the year-to-date surplus to SU$357mn. This decrease is largely thanks... 2008-11-03

On 30 September, the government revised a reform that would strip the Supreme Court of its role of investigating congressmen implicated in the 'para-political scandal', linking senior... 2008-10-03

BMI View: As we had suspected, a disinflationary story is slowly starting to take hold across EM, and Colombia is no exception. Latest CPI data show that headline prices fell 0.19%... 2008-10-03

While President Álvaro Uribe has not ruled out running for a third term in office, we believe his proposal of four potential successors on September 4 means it looks increasingly... 2008-09-08

BMI View: Headline consumer price inflation (CPI) continued to rise in August, up 7.9% y-o-y, well above the central bank's goal of 3.5-4.5%. However, we hold to our view that BanRep... 2008-09-08

Given the recent depreciation of Latin American currencies against the dollar, we are hopeful that talk of loosening capital controls in Colombia could be the sign of things to come... 2008-09-01

A statement on July 21 by two commanders of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC), that the organisation would never surrender their arms and stop fighting, came... 2008-07-24

BMI View: Lauded by the international community for his government's success in dealing with local militia groups, Colombian President Álvaro Uribe is riding high. Certainly, a calmer... 2008-07-22

Colombian industrial production fell by 4.0% y-o-y in May 2008, a 4.3% y-o-y decline when excluding coffee processing. The decline was largely thanks to a 36% y-o-y contraction in... 2008-07-18

Following the rescue of Franco-Colombian Ingrid Betancourt, the FARC has lost its trump card in terms of political capital. Furthermore, the recent deaths of rebel leader Manuel Marulanda... 2008-07-04