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		<title>The Colombian Global Market Opens – Trades International Securities on the BVC</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Dec 2010 03:44:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter Carter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[﻿The Bolsa de Valores de Colombia (BVC) is Colombia’s stock exchange, but since November it has joined forces with the Chilean and Peruvian exchanges, creating a platform for trading in all three countries of issues registered in any of the three countries. In a separate new development, 21 issues of international securities can now be traded on the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=colombialawbiz.com&amp;blog=7145362&amp;post=1704&amp;subd=colombialawbiz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Proposed &#8220;Law of First Employment&#8221; &#8211; Towards Formalization, Through Incentives, A National Database, and Regulatory Reforms</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Dec 2010 19:41:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter Carter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the great challenges facing the modernizing Colombia is the formalization of employment. Proponents of the US-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement and other free trade deals have argued they will bring about more and better employment, boosting trade and development. Informal employment has cost the health care financing system in Colombia dearly, while formal employment [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=colombialawbiz.com&amp;blog=7145362&amp;post=1699&amp;subd=colombialawbiz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ELECTION ALERT: US-Colombia Trade Agreement &#8212; Arent Fox 2010 Midterm Election Analysis</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 22:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter Carter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investment Promotion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The midterm elections of 2010 and the widely anticipated shift toward a more Republican Congress will bring significant changes to domestic and foreign policy which will have a major effect on our clients&#8217; business both here and abroad. A lot of people are asking me what the election means for the US-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=colombialawbiz.com&amp;blog=7145362&amp;post=1630&amp;subd=colombialawbiz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Colombia Law &amp; Business Forum &#8211; A Big Success</title>
		<link>http://colombialawbiz.com/2010/10/24/the-colombia-law-business-forum-a-big-success/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 00:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter Carter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On October 14, 2010, The Colombian American Association held “The Colombia Law and Business Forum,” sponsored and hosted by Arent Fox LLP in association with ProExport Colombia and The Colombia Law &#38; Business Post. Latin America and Colombia are hot emerging markets drawing significant investor attention. This event was geared towards financial and strategic investors [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=colombialawbiz.com&amp;blog=7145362&amp;post=1610&amp;subd=colombialawbiz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Colombia Law and Business Forum &#8211; October 14</title>
		<link>http://colombialawbiz.com/2010/09/25/the-colombia-law-business-forum-october-14/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Sep 2010 17:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter Carter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are a limited number of seats available for this in-depth, high-level conference reviewing major law and business issues in Colombia today. Two legal panels will join the audience in reviewing and addressing the presentations of numerous major business and investment leaders. By taking a close look at the business issues through a legal lens, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=colombialawbiz.com&amp;blog=7145362&amp;post=1562&amp;subd=colombialawbiz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Announcing Colombia Law &amp; Business Forum, October 14, 2010 in New York</title>
		<link>http://colombialawbiz.com/2010/08/31/announcing-colombia-law-business-forum-october-14-2010-in-new-york/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:52:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter Carter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On October 14, the Colombian American Association will hold a conference entitled &#8220;The Colombia Law and Business Forum.&#8220; Our keynote speaker will be David Bojanini, Chairman of Suramericana Inversiones (also known as the Grupo Empresarial Antioqueño or the Sindicato Antioqueño).  We will also hear from David Stone, Managing Director of Pan American Capital Partners, on their infrastructure fund and projects.   [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=colombialawbiz.com&amp;blog=7145362&amp;post=1547&amp;subd=colombialawbiz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Overview of Colombia&#8217;s Investment Promotion Policies</title>
		<link>http://colombialawbiz.com/2009/12/05/an-overview-of-colombias-pro-investment-policies/</link>
		<comments>http://colombialawbiz.com/2009/12/05/an-overview-of-colombias-pro-investment-policies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 17:35:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter Carter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investment Promotion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Government of Colombia, seeking to rebuild the country as decades of violence now recede into the past, has adopted a number of pro-investment strategies. This post describes the elements of the overall scheme. The most prominent feature of the pro-investment policies appear to be the attitude of the government that can be perceived in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=colombialawbiz.com&amp;blog=7145362&amp;post=1089&amp;subd=colombialawbiz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>IFC Finances Buenaventura Port in $224M Deal, For US$1.88B Total In Colombia Since 2004</title>
		<link>http://colombialawbiz.com/2009/10/28/ifc-deals-in-colombia-october-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:36:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter Carter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The World Bank&#8217;s private lending arm, the International Finance Corporation (&#8220;IFC&#8221;), announced earlier in October a large new transaction. The IFC has provided a combination of three different loan facilities totaling US$224M to finance the modernization and expansion of the Buenaventura Port on Colombia&#8217; Pacific coast, very close to Cali. The IFC has been very active in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=colombialawbiz.com&amp;blog=7145362&amp;post=1026&amp;subd=colombialawbiz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Legal Stability Contract &#8211; Translated For the First Time</title>
		<link>http://colombialawbiz.com/2009/10/12/legal-stability-contract-translated-for-the-first-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:53:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter Carter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investment Promotion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Legal Stability Contracts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is a &#8220;legal stability contract&#8221;?  As I have discussed in other articles here (click on the &#8220;Legal Stability Contracts&#8221; category, to the right), the concept is borrowed from government concession contracts that protect the concessionaire from adverse regulatory action that undermines the concession.  In a fairly novel application of this concept, to promote investment, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=colombialawbiz.com&amp;blog=7145362&amp;post=976&amp;subd=colombialawbiz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Foreign Investors Have Signed 16 of 46 Legal Stability Contracts</title>
		<link>http://colombialawbiz.com/2009/10/02/foreign-investors-have-signed-16-of-46-legal-stability-contracts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 23:19:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter Carter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investment Promotion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Legal Stability Contracts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Luis Guillermo Plata]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Legal Stability Contracts provide investors a way to contract with the government to prevent adverse legal and regulatory developments that hurt an investment. They have been touted as a way of attracting foreign investment on the ProExport site.  In fact, ProExport&#8217;s website lists the legal stability contracts that have been signed and with which companies. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=colombialawbiz.com&amp;blog=7145362&amp;post=956&amp;subd=colombialawbiz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>El Tiempo Reports &#8220;Wave&#8221; of Foreign Investors Includes Canadian Firms</title>
		<link>http://colombialawbiz.com/2009/09/10/el-tiempo-reports-wave-of-foreign-investors-includes-canadian-firms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:47:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter Carter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s El Tiempo  contains an interesting angle on the reported wave of foreign investment into Colombia: Canadian investors are a big portion of the new funds. Brookfield Asset Management just closed a US$400 million infrastructure fund, which raised US$320 million from other investors and is the largest private equity infrastructure fund in Colombia.  This is a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=colombialawbiz.com&amp;blog=7145362&amp;post=853&amp;subd=colombialawbiz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Look At Colombia? Part II &#8211; Getting the Facts</title>
		<link>http://colombialawbiz.com/2009/08/28/why-look-at-colombia-part-ii-getting-the-facts/</link>
		<comments>http://colombialawbiz.com/2009/08/28/why-look-at-colombia-part-ii-getting-the-facts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:53:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter Carter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the point of view of law and business, accurate information is important. Will foreign investors, tourists, and even social justice groups, have the facts they need to do their work? If so, what legal regimes will help &#8211; and which need to be fixed -  in order to facilitate peaceful and constructive development?  Groups like Foundation [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=colombialawbiz.com&amp;blog=7145362&amp;post=816&amp;subd=colombialawbiz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Look At Colombia? Has The Country Transformed?</title>
		<link>http://colombialawbiz.com/2009/08/27/why-look-at-colombia-has-the-country-transformed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:42:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter Carter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When people hear  &#8220;Colombia&#8221; they still think about drug-fueled violence.  That stain is deep, but fading: data prove that Colombia is radically transforming, perhaps as extensively as Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall or China after the advent of free markets.  Compelling statistics paint a story of social transformation through greatly reduced violence, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=colombialawbiz.com&amp;blog=7145362&amp;post=782&amp;subd=colombialawbiz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Legal Stability Contracts III: Why Do IFC-Backed Projects and Firms Not Use Legal Stability Contracts?</title>
		<link>http://colombialawbiz.com/2009/08/05/legal-stability-contracts-iii-why-do-ifc-backed-projects-and-firms-not-use-legal-stability-contracts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:02:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter Carter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The list of companies that the IFC has backed resembles a &#8220;who’s who” list of leading Colombian businesses.  Do firms of this caliber show interest in legal stability contracts?  In other words, what does the list of IFC-backed Colombian firms tell us about legal stability contracts? What do they have in common?  Almost nothing, as it turns [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=colombialawbiz.com&amp;blog=7145362&amp;post=762&amp;subd=colombialawbiz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fashion Week: Notes from ColombiaModa in Medellin</title>
		<link>http://colombialawbiz.com/2009/07/28/fashion-week-notes-from-colombiamoda-in-medellin/</link>
		<comments>http://colombialawbiz.com/2009/07/28/fashion-week-notes-from-colombiamoda-in-medellin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:13:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter Carter</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Juan Manuel Barrientos]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lina Hinestroza]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Six months ago the hottest tickets in Medellin were to hear U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner or Bill Clinton address the InterAmerican Development Bank’s 50thAnnual Summit Meeting, but this week the long lines are to see the stunning models and hot fashions on the runway during ColombiaModa&#8217;s fashion week.  Colombia’s busy fashion industry designers and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=colombialawbiz.com&amp;blog=7145362&amp;post=751&amp;subd=colombialawbiz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Legal Stability Contracts Part II: Evaluating The Stability Contract Regime</title>
		<link>http://colombialawbiz.com/2009/07/25/legal-stability-contracts-part-ii-evaluating-the-stability-regime/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 19:47:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter Carter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The problem is clear enough: attracting foreign direct investment, particularly medium and long term capital and infrastructure investment, is more difficult in environments that do not have a long-term history of stability that diminishes real and perceived national risk, political risk, and regulatory risk, among others. Firms are justifiably concerned about sinking substantial capital into [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=colombialawbiz.com&amp;blog=7145362&amp;post=742&amp;subd=colombialawbiz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>IFC Invests Big Money in Key Companies, Sectors In Colombia</title>
		<link>http://colombialawbiz.com/2009/06/16/the-top-ifc-financed-projects-and-companies-in-colombia-2005-present/</link>
		<comments>http://colombialawbiz.com/2009/06/16/the-top-ifc-financed-projects-and-companies-in-colombia-2005-present/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:07:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter Carter</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://colombialawbiz.com/?p=684</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A big chunk of the almost $4Bn now of annual capital inflows to Colombia comes from the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Bank’s private sector lending arm.   IFC is a very sophisticated financial party, with significant market expertise in Latin America and the rest of the world, and tremendous resources for performing diligence.  For [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=colombialawbiz.com&amp;blog=7145362&amp;post=684&amp;subd=colombialawbiz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chinese Take Increasing Interest In Colombia</title>
		<link>http://colombialawbiz.com/2009/04/02/chinese-take-increasing-interest-in-colombia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 19:22:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter Carter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Huang Zhilong from the Institute of Latin America, a think-tank that is part of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, says China will cautiously buy more Latin bonds, including IDB bonds, to support economic recovery and development efforts. Huang also said that China hopes to increase use of the Yuan to settle Sino-Latin debt, following [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=colombialawbiz.com&amp;blog=7145362&amp;post=125&amp;subd=colombialawbiz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BBVA Gets Funding for SMEs and Corporate Governance</title>
		<link>http://colombialawbiz.com/2009/04/02/103/</link>
		<comments>http://colombialawbiz.com/2009/04/02/103/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:09:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter Carter</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Investment Promotion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BBVA bank group has obtained financing from IDB unit Inter-American Investment Corporation (the IIC) to fund the development of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, or SMEs, in the region. We will be interested in following the funding to identify transactions financed under this program. Please post a comment or send a message if you have information [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=colombialawbiz.com&amp;blog=7145362&amp;post=103&amp;subd=colombialawbiz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Inter-American Development Bank Meets in Medellín</title>
		<link>http://colombialawbiz.com/2009/03/29/inter-american-development-bank-meets-in-medellin/</link>
		<comments>http://colombialawbiz.com/2009/03/29/inter-american-development-bank-meets-in-medellin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 16:36:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter Carter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What would happen if you called a major economic summit meeting in a city once notorious for its violence as a worldwide economic recession rages? As it turns out, an enormously important and successful summit, and a lot of changed opinions. The 50th Annual Meeting of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) took place this weekend [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=colombialawbiz.com&amp;blog=7145362&amp;post=67&amp;subd=colombialawbiz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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