The opening took place on Monday Virtual macro-wheel of Procolombia, which is carried out with the aim of promoting non-mining imports and exports, in the midst of the country’s economic recovery.
Canada was the special guest country in the discussion Procolombia, so that the country’s ambassador to Colombia, Marcel Lebleu, was one of the first to speak to highlight the FTA between the two countries and trade relations between the two nations.
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During his speech, the Canadian had connection problems, so his signal was lost at one point while speaking. However, the signal returned and continued with video call.
A few minutes later, while Lebleu was speaking, he asked to put up a video, which did not appear, and thought he had another technical problem, despite the fact that his image continued to appear in virtual conversation.
At that time, Canadian Ambassador he stared at the computer, made a disappointed face, and later took some papers to cover the room for a few seconds.
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After that, he covered his face, got up from his chair, threw away the documents he had taken, picked up his phone and walked away from the room, while the other participants in the video call watched him, including the president. Ivan Duque.
After seeing him, the director of Procolombia, Flavia Santoro, appeared to indicate to the diplomat that they were still watching and listening to him, so he finished his speech again and said that he thought the connection was lost again.
“I thought I was out of line,” Ambassador Lebleu replied sadly after the scene.
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Macrowheel reactivation will take place from April 12 to 23, where some 1,000 companies from 62 countries will meet with almost 2,000 national companies from 26 departments of the country.
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If it is estimated that it will generate approximately 13,000 virtual meetings, the companies will mainly participate from United States, Peru, Canada, Guatemala, Ecuador, Dominican Republic, Bolivia and Spain.
Ivan Duque on the macro wheel.
While the departments with the most participating companies will be Cundinamarca, Antioquia, Valle del Cauca, Atlántico, Santander, Risaralda, Caldas and Norte de Santander.
Of the nearly 1,000 companies purchasing, 580 will participate for the first time in a Macro ProColombia roundtable, which shows that new interests are generated by international companies who want to know the national supply of goods and services.
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For his part, President Iván Duque justified the tax reform to opening investors.
“That in this Sustainable Social Transformation, social programs can be extended to the most vulnerable population, that these unconditional transfers take place with a greater projection over time, VAT reimbursement to more households, employment support program , which subsidizes the salary until the end of this year and the consolidation of free public university education for young people who are part of the most vulnerable class and the Colombian middle class, layers 1, 2 and 3 “, he said.
He added that Colombia is a nation that is opening up to position itself as Silicon Valley in Latin America, and that it increasingly wants to take advantage of the adversities that the pandemic has brought to be a leading country in Fintech, Govtech, Edtech and all uses of technology applied to a multitude of sectors. “And all this makes Colombia one of the most attractive places to invest in Latin America and the Caribbean,” he said.
And all this makes Colombia one of the most attractive places to invest in Latin America and the Caribbean.
“Colombia sees this opportunity as a scenario in which we tell investors: this is the time to invest in Colombia. A country with institutional stability, with a consolidated democracy, with a policy of protection of private investments and of unrestricted respect for entrepreneurship “, he declared.
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