Investors interested in Colombia can bank on a continuity of president Álvaro Uribe’s economic policies irrespective of who wins the presidential elections next month, according to his deputy.
"We now have a society that will not allow any reverses in current policies. I don’t foresee any of the presidential candidates bringing in big changes in economic policy, even the leftist candidate," says Francisco Santos Calderón, the vice-president of Colombia, speaking to investors in London in March.
A senior banker agrees. "Uribe is still very popular and so presidential candidates are taking steps to ‘Uribe-ize’ their ideas," he says.
