Ctg Bound has written 10 posts

Colombia's Credit Rating Raised to Ba1 by Moody's

June 19 (Bloomberg) -- Colombia's foreign credit rating was raised to within one level of investment grade by Moody's Investors Service as the fastest economic expansion in three decades lures capital and narrows the budget deficit. Moody's raised the rating to Ba1 from Ba2, putting Colombia on the verge of regaining the investment-grade rating it lost in 1999. Moody's said its outlook on Colombia's rating is stable. Colombia's economy expanded 7.5 percent last year, the most since 1978, ...

By Ctg Bound on 2008-06-20 05:39:45. 6 comments.

Rental Apartments in Cartagena de Indies

We offer apartments for rent in Cartagena de Indias. Our apartments are located in the neighbourhoods of Laguito, Bocagrande and in the Old Historic City: http://www.colombiarental.net/

By Ctg Bound on 2008-06-12 03:54:58. 4 comments.

Colombia March Trade Surplus Rises To $299M Vs $215M

UPDATE: Colombia March Trade Surplus Rises To $299M Vs $215M (Adds details) BOGOTA (Dow Jones)--Colombia posted a surplus of $299 million in March compared with a surplus of $215 million in the same month in 2007, the national statistics department said Wednesday. In the first quarter of this year, the country posted a surplus of $342 million compared with a $812 million deficit in the first quarter 2007. The country's exports rose 25% in March to $2.99 billion from $2.39 billion ...

By Ctg Bound on 2008-06-05 04:43:54. 1 comments.

Apartments in Cartagena de Indies

We offer apartments for rent in Cartagena de Indias. Our apartments are located in the neighbourhoods of Laguito, Bocagrande and in the Old Historic City: http://www.colombiarental.net/

By Ctg Bound on 2008-05-30 10:57:24. 0 comments.

Murió en combate 'Iván Ríos', miembro del Secretariado de las Farc

Murió en combate 'Iván Ríos', miembro del Secretariado de las Farc Los combates fiueron hace dos días en una zona entre Sonsón (Antioquia) y Aguadas (Caldas). Aunque las autoridades no tienen el cuerpo, la información fue entregada por un desertor de la guerrilla. Es el segundo golpe a este grupo guerrillero en menos de una semana, luego de que el sábado al amanecer fuera dado de baja 'Raúl Reyes' en territorio venezolano. http://www.eltiempo.com/justicia/2008-03-07/ARTICULO- ...

By Ctg Bound on 2008-03-07 09:49:30. 49 comments.

Charles Lindbergh in Bocagrande

Short nteresting article.... At January 27 of 1928 Charles A. Lindbergh who one year before was the first pilot to cross the Atlantic on non-stop flight landed on the Bocagrande peninsular. His plane was "The Spirit of St. Luis", the same one he used to cross the Atlantic. Lindbergh was on a good will tour of Latin America, arriving from Panama after a four hours flight. A "Special Correspondent of The New York Times" reported from Cartagena that the governor leaded the excited crowd who brok ...

By Ctg Bound on 2008-02-24 17:58:47. 7 comments.

Cartagena Apartments for Rent

We offer apartments for rent in Cartagena de Indias. Our apartments are located in the neighbourhoods of Laguito, Bocagrande and in the Old Historic City: http://www.colombiarental.net/

By Ctg Bound on 2007-09-28 07:53:14. 5 comments.

Colombia Peso Rally Will Turn Into Rout

Colombia Peso Rally Will Turn Into Rout, Merrill, Citigroup Say

By Bo Nielsen and Andrea Jaramillo

June 11 (Bloomberg) -- Wall Street's biggest banks are certain the Colombian peso, the world's hottest currency, will tumble for the rest of 2007 and may even erase this year's 16 percent gain.

Merrill Lynch & Co., based in New York, says the peso will be the worst performer in the foreign-exchange markets, losing all of its advance against the dollar. ...

By Ctg Bound on 2007-06-11 05:10:01. 10 comments.

Air Madrid Grounded

Rescue under way as no-frills airline grounded
By Mark Mulligan in Madrid

Published: December 19 2006 02:00 | Last updated: December 19 2006 02:00

The Spanish government yesterday chartered two aircraft to fly hundreds of Latin Americans home for Christmas after the grounding at the weekend of Air Madrid, a low-cost long-haul -airline.

The flights, to Ecuador and Argentina, were part of an emergency plan the government announced after cancelli ...

By Ctg Bound on 2006-12-19 12:25:45. 2 comments.

Elmo

I was in the Colombian Consulate in Panama today, they had a map on the wall of the old Indian tribes in Colombia, each tribe had some drawings of the local peoples dress and something relevent to the tribe etc.

It made me laugh to see only one tribe with a donkey as one if the symbols for the tribe, the Wayu, they even had a little Elmo sat astride him. ...

By Ctg Bound on 2006-11-16 08:51:46. 11 comments.