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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>Announcing Private Equity Study of Colombia, Brazil, Mexico</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:37:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter Carter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am pleased to announce the publication this week in the Latin America Law and Business Report of the New York City Bar&#8217;s Report &#8220;Private Equity Developments In Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico.&#8221; As LALBR describes our work:  Private Equity Regulation in Brazil, Colombia and Mexico A report by the New York City Bar Association Committee on Inter-American Affairs [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=colombialawbiz.com&amp;blog=7145362&amp;post=1539&amp;subd=colombialawbiz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chiquita Brands Part III-C: Of Bananas, Money, Guns, and Drugs: What Did Chiquita Really Do?</title>
		<link>http://colombialawbiz.com/2010/07/23/chiquita-brands-part-iii-c-of-bananas-money-guns-and-drugs-what-did-chiquita-really-do/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 02:52:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter Carter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-Corruption]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Readers of my other posts about the Chiquita story will have seized on one of the central issues in determining Chiquita’s liability to the wrongful death claimants under the Anti-Terrorism Act and the Alien Tort Claims Act &#8212; how close is the relationship is between Chiquita’s payments to the FARC guerillas and the paramilitaries of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=colombialawbiz.com&amp;blog=7145362&amp;post=1519&amp;subd=colombialawbiz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chiquita Brands Part III-B, Deterrence: How Private Litigation Can Supplement Anti-Terrorist Enforcement Actions</title>
		<link>http://colombialawbiz.com/2010/07/15/chiquita-brands-part-three-supplement-deterrence-how-private-litigation-can-supplement-anti-terrorist-enforcement-actions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:08:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter Carter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-Corruption]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Increasingly, the crux of the Chiquita Brands case may be more than just admitted payments totaling US$1.7M to the paramilitary AUC from 1997-2004, but additional forms of support, including weapons shipments. In testimony before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs, Lee Wolosky, a former National Security Council official and now lead counsel [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=colombialawbiz.com&amp;blog=7145362&amp;post=1496&amp;subd=colombialawbiz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chiquita Brands, Part III-A &#8212; What (Allegedly) Did Chiquita Do In Colombia and What Are the Legal Consequences?</title>
		<link>http://colombialawbiz.com/2010/07/13/chiquita-brands-part-iii-what-allegedly-did-chiquita-do-in-colombia-and-what-are-the-legal-consequences/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:29:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter Carter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-Corruption]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An outcry has erupted in recent days over former Colombian hostage (and former presidential candidate) Ingrid Betancourt. Almost eight years ago, Betancourt defiantly drove through dangerous territory in Southern Colombia, apparently against the advice of security forces, to meet with FARC rebel forces and try to break an impasse in peace negotiations. Instead, she was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=colombialawbiz.com&amp;blog=7145362&amp;post=1487&amp;subd=colombialawbiz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Canada&#8217;s New Trade Agreement With Colombia Turns Up the Heat on the U.S.</title>
		<link>http://colombialawbiz.com/2010/06/15/canada-approves-colombia-free-trade-agreement-increasing-pressure-on-the-united-states/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 19:48:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter Carter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On June 14, Canada&#8217;s House of Commons approved a free trade agreement with Colombia. Questions should now be flying around Washington, coming from US exporters, why is the US Congress still sitting on its hands? This article is a passionate argument that times have changed in Colombia, policies must keep up, that human rights activists [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=colombialawbiz.com&amp;blog=7145362&amp;post=1432&amp;subd=colombialawbiz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chiquita Brands’ Troubles With The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) In Colombia &#8212; Part Two – Colombian FCPA Cases</title>
		<link>http://colombialawbiz.com/2010/05/24/chiquita-brands%e2%80%99-troubles-with-the-foreign-corrupt-practices-act-fcpa-in-colombia-part-two-%e2%80%93-colombian-fcpa-cases/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 20:14:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter Carter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-Corruption]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What does the Chiquita case mean for investors with present or prospective activities in Colombia? Are reports of perceptions of corruption an indication of the Justice Department aggressively challenging companies doing business in Colombia?  Is the FCPA a trap for investors in Colombia? Only the unwary. As I wrote in Part One, best practices of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=colombialawbiz.com&amp;blog=7145362&amp;post=1402&amp;subd=colombialawbiz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chiquita Brands’ Troubles With The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) In Colombia – Part One – The FCPA Explained</title>
		<link>http://colombialawbiz.com/2010/05/23/chiquita-brands%e2%80%99-troubles-with-the-foreign-corrupt-practices-act-fcpa-in-colombia-part-one-%e2%80%93-the-fcpa-explained/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 01:33:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter Carter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-Corruption]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With special contributions from my colleagues Scott Peeler and Collin Seals.   Former FARC hostage Keith Stansell sued Chiquita Brands International, after being held more than 2000 days in captivity held by leftist guerillas of the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia).[i] Stansell alleges that Chiquita Brands made corrupt payments to the FARC – bribes, in his view; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=colombialawbiz.com&amp;blog=7145362&amp;post=1379&amp;subd=colombialawbiz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who Is On The “Clinton List” and Can They Get Removed?</title>
		<link>http://colombialawbiz.com/2010/04/29/who-is-on-the-%e2%80%9cclinton-list%e2%80%9d-and-can-they-get-removed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 22:40:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter Carter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-Corruption]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[U.S. persons must not engage in transactions with individuals and entities the U.S. Government has put on the famed “Clinton List,” at risk of severe civil and criminal sanctions. Can people on this list get removed? It is not impossible. There is a way to do it. And it does happen.  How often? Read this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=colombialawbiz.com&amp;blog=7145362&amp;post=1350&amp;subd=colombialawbiz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>IFC Funds Salvadoran Firm’s Cali Hotel Plans</title>
		<link>http://colombialawbiz.com/2010/04/20/ifc-funds-salvadoran-firm%e2%80%99s-cali-hotel-plans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:32:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter Carter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In addition to the seven recent Colombia transactions I have covered, there is one more that relates to Colombia and worth noting. Grupo Poma from El Salvador is arranging for additional financing that includes another hotel in Colombia. Poma is the group behind the Marriott-flagged property on the Avenida El Dorado in Bogotá. Grupo Poma is a well established [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=colombialawbiz.com&amp;blog=7145362&amp;post=1341&amp;subd=colombialawbiz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>IFC Backs 100% Family Owned Dairy Firm Alqueria</title>
		<link>http://colombialawbiz.com/2010/03/16/ifc-backs-100-family-owned-dairy-firm-alqueria/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:23:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter Carter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foods]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rounding out the seven newest projects announced by IFC in Colombia is financing for Alqueria, the third largest dairy products company in the country.  The IFC facility is a mix of debt and equity: an amortizing A-Loan of up to $15 million and preferred shares of up to $5.0 million in favor of Alqueria. The Investment [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=colombialawbiz.com&amp;blog=7145362&amp;post=1296&amp;subd=colombialawbiz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pass the Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement</title>
		<link>http://colombialawbiz.com/2010/03/16/pass-the-colombia-fta/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 03:22:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter Carter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Trade, Import, Export]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Colombia TPA is good for America (exports), good for Colombia (growth through peace and stability), and good for the region.  Passage would boost U.S. exports, stabilize Colombia’s worldwide trade relations, and would reward and encourage Colombia for more major improvements in security, human rights, and the economy. The Status of Trade Between the U.S. and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=colombialawbiz.com&amp;blog=7145362&amp;post=1285&amp;subd=colombialawbiz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>IFC Backs Ashmore I Infrastructure Private Equity Fund</title>
		<link>http://colombialawbiz.com/2010/03/11/ifc-backs-ashmore-i-infrastructure-oriented-private-equity-fund/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:20:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter Carter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[IFC will invest up to $20 million equivalent, not exceeding 20% of total commitments, through a $500 million private equity fund focused on Colombian infrastructure. Infrastructure projects abound in Colombia these days, thanks to a pro-investment climate and dramatic improvements in public safety and access to the country.  So, when news broke last year that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=colombialawbiz.com&amp;blog=7145362&amp;post=1261&amp;subd=colombialawbiz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>IFC Boosts Women’s World Bank Micro-lenders</title>
		<link>http://colombialawbiz.com/2010/03/09/ifc-boosts-women%e2%80%99s-world-bank-micro-lenders/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter Carter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[IFC continues to back micro-lenders with two recent deals associated with the Women’s World Bank.   The financial sector remains IFC’s largest focus in Colombia. I last wrote about its big backing of Bancolombia – the country’s largest bank – on programs offering hedging instruments to sophisticated clients and to fund Bancolombia’s investment bank unit in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=colombialawbiz.com&amp;blog=7145362&amp;post=1241&amp;subd=colombialawbiz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>IFC Investing Intensely, Backing Bancolombia Big-time</title>
		<link>http://colombialawbiz.com/2010/03/09/ifc-investing-intensely-backing-bancolombia-big-time/</link>
		<comments>http://colombialawbiz.com/2010/03/09/ifc-investing-intensely-backing-bancolombia-big-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:27:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter Carter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Banking and Finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IFC Projects]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There have been seven transactions – more than one a month – in the less than six months since I last wrote about the IFC investing in Colombia,  including the largest IFC deal ever in Colombia, $400 million dollars.  That brings the amount IFC has invested in its 43 deals since 2004 to well north [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=colombialawbiz.com&amp;blog=7145362&amp;post=1235&amp;subd=colombialawbiz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Arbitration and Bylaws: Foreign Investors Can Be Protected By a Foreign Arbitration Clause in the Bylaws of a Colombian Corporation?</title>
		<link>http://colombialawbiz.com/2010/03/09/arbitration-and-bylaws-can-foreign-investors-be-protected-by-a-foreign-arbitration-clause-in-the-bylaws-of-a-colombian-corporation/</link>
		<comments>http://colombialawbiz.com/2010/03/09/arbitration-and-bylaws-can-foreign-investors-be-protected-by-a-foreign-arbitration-clause-in-the-bylaws-of-a-colombian-corporation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:21:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter Carter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arbitration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Litigation and Dispute Resolution]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Investors seeking confidence in how shareholder disputes will be handled may prefer arbitration, even foreign arbitration. Corporate bylaws often provide minority shareholders with important protections in terms of corporate governance rights. Can disputes arising under corporate bylaws be submitted to arbitration? Arbitration, as I have written here before, provides investors an extra sense of security when [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=colombialawbiz.com&amp;blog=7145362&amp;post=1226&amp;subd=colombialawbiz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Private Equity In Colombia: A Survey For Fund Managers, Investors</title>
		<link>http://colombialawbiz.com/2010/03/01/private-equity-in-colombia-a-survey-for-fund-managers-investors/</link>
		<comments>http://colombialawbiz.com/2010/03/01/private-equity-in-colombia-a-survey-for-fund-managers-investors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 04:36:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter Carter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Private Equity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Funds, managers, investors, sellers, and others with a perspective on private equity are invited to help with a survey on private equity in Colombia.  This survey intended for non-lawyers does not require too much time.  Please offer your views. Filed under: Private Equity<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=colombialawbiz.com&amp;blog=7145362&amp;post=1213&amp;subd=colombialawbiz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Latin Business Chronicle Says Multinationals Are Upbeat on Colombia</title>
		<link>http://colombialawbiz.com/2010/02/13/latin-business-chronicle-says-multinationals-are-upbeat-on-colombia/</link>
		<comments>http://colombialawbiz.com/2010/02/13/latin-business-chronicle-says-multinationals-are-upbeat-on-colombia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 21:03:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter Carter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Colombia: Positive Business Outlook&#8221; says Latin Business Chronicle, citing its own survey of seven foreign firms such as Intel, SABMiller, and Chevron, notwithstanding uncertainty as to whether President Uribe will be elected to a third term. Filed under: Economy<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=colombialawbiz.com&amp;blog=7145362&amp;post=1202&amp;subd=colombialawbiz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Winners Announced For the Ruta Del Sol Concessions</title>
		<link>http://colombialawbiz.com/2009/12/16/winners-announced-for-the-ruta-del-sol-concessions/</link>
		<comments>http://colombialawbiz.com/2009/12/16/winners-announced-for-the-ruta-del-sol-concessions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:42:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter Carter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Infrastructure and Projects]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transport]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[INCA, the Colombian national concessions authority, today announced the results of competitive bidding to construct, operate, and maintain two of the three sectors of the Ruta Del Sol, a limited-access highway that will connect Bogotá, the Magdalena River valley, and the Caribbean coastal cities of Barranquilla and Cartagena.  The massive project, said to be the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=colombialawbiz.com&amp;blog=7145362&amp;post=1179&amp;subd=colombialawbiz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New York City Bar Association Publishes Valuable eGuide to Online Sources of Law Relating to Latin America</title>
		<link>http://colombialawbiz.com/2009/12/10/new-york-city-bar-association-publishes-valuable-eguide-to-online-sources-of-law-relating-to-latin-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 03:13:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter Carter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Note: I am a member of the Committee that published this eGuide.) Lawyers, investors, law students, and others, should welcome the arrival of an incredible service by the New York City Bar Association.  The Bar’s Committee on Inter-American Affairs has released its eGuide to Online Sources of Law Relating to Latin America. The eGuide is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=colombialawbiz.com&amp;blog=7145362&amp;post=1101&amp;subd=colombialawbiz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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