{"id":9730,"date":"2009-01-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"colombia-venezuela-form-200-million-fund-to-boost-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2009\/colombia-venezuela-form-200-million-fund-to-boost-trade.html","title":{"rendered":"Colombia, Venezuela form $200 million fund to boost trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jamaica Gleaner &#8211; The presidents of Colombia and Venezuela pledged Saturday to invest US$100 million each in a special fund in hopes of boosting cross-border trade as the world economic crisis slashes global demand for their exports.<\/p>\n<p>The cash will help create small businesses and should finance infrastructure projects along the border, Venezuelan President Hugo Ch\u00e1vez said after four hours of talks in the Caribbean port of Cartagena with his Colombian counterpart, Alvaro Uribe.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Nobody knows where this crisis might go,&quot; Ch\u00e1vez told a televised news conference.<\/p>\n<p>Trade between the two nations reached a record US$7.2 billion in 2008, and Ch\u00e1vez said they should aim for US$10 billion a year in 2009 and 2010.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.jamaica-gleaner.com\/gleaner\/20090127\/business\/business2.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamaica Gleaner &#8211; The presidents of Colombia and Venezuela pledged Saturday to invest US$100 million each in a special fund in hopes of boosting cross-border trade as the world economic crisis slashes global demand for their exports. The cash will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[310,6485,6487,6491,6488,1966,6484,6482,6483,6489,2243,6481,3050,6486,4316,6490,6480],"class_list":["post-9730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-100-million","tag-border-trade","tag-cartagena","tag-colombia","tag-counterpart","tag-economic-crisis","tag-global-demand","tag-hugo-chvez","tag-infrastructure-projects","tag-jamaica","tag-news-conference","tag-president-hugo-chvez","tag-presidents","tag-slashes","tag-small-businesses","tag-venezuela","tag-venezuelan-president-hugo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}