{"id":4237,"date":"2012-02-02T14:43:30","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T19:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/?p=4237"},"modified":"2012-02-02T15:21:20","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T20:21:20","slug":"colombian-investment-boom-in-central-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/colombian-investment-boom-in-central-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombian Investment Boom in Central America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/davivienda.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4238\" title=\"davivienda\" src=\"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/davivienda-300x119.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"119\" srcset=\"https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/davivienda-300x119.jpg 300w, https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/davivienda.jpg 822w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our neighbor is doing quite well and has been in the news in many fronts including foreign investment here in Central America.\u00a0 Direct <a title=\"Investment\" href=\"http:\/\/www.centralamericadata.com\/en\/search?q1=content_en_le:%22Investment%22\">investment<\/a> by Colombian companies came to about $1 billion in 2010, a giant leap forward compared to the $27 million in 2004.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Central America\" href=\"http:\/\/www.centralamericadata.com\/en\/search?q1=content_en_le:%22Central+America%22\">Central America<\/a> has become a kind of &#8220;Promised Land&#8221; for large companies in <a title=\"Colombia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.centralamericadata.com\/en\/search?q1=content_en_le:%22Colombia%22\">Colombia<\/a>, writes ElTiempo.com.<\/p>\n<p>The latest example of large-scale landing in the economies of the  isthmus is the recent $801 million purchase of the assets of the HSBC  bank in Costa Rica, El Salvador and Honduras by Banco <a title=\"Davivienda\" href=\"http:\/\/www.centralamericadata.com\/en\/search?q1=content_en_le:%22Davivienda%22\">Davivienda<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Also noteworthy was the purchase of the Agricultural Bank of El Salvador by Bancolombia and <a title=\"BAC Credomatic\" href=\"http:\/\/www.centralamericadata.com\/en\/search?q1=content_en_le:%22BAC+Credomatic%22\">BAC Credomatic<\/a>,  which was sold to the Banco de Bogota. Similarly, the alliance between  Avianca and the Salvadoran Taca,&#8221; according to the website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our neighbor is doing quite well and has been in the news in many fronts including foreign investment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-articles-panama-perpsective"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v27.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Colombian Investment Boom in Central America - Blog and Newsletter<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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