Oil fall shuts Colombia’s ‘door to paradise’.

ft.com. 7 August, 2015 – 6:16 pm – Financial Times

Andres Schipani in Puerto Gaitán, Colombia.
“We have some tough years ahead of us,” says Roberto Steiner, economist at Fedesarrollo, a Bogotá-based think-tank. More pressing, the collapse in the price of oil has opened a gaping current account deficit equivalent to 7 per cent of GDP.