Politics can’t shake Colombia’s tech boom - Rest of World

VCs don’t seem to care about who’s in power in Latin America’s startup powerhouses.

John Vizcaino/AFP/Getty Images By Alex González Ormerod 16 March 2022 • Mexico City, Mexico Latin America Newsletter A political overhaul can’t shake Colombia’s tech boom By Alex González Ormerod > LatAm Newsletter This essay is from our LatAm newsletter. You can read past editions of the newsletter here. Since the tech boom looked beyond Silicon Valley and began to crop up in other parts of the globe — “rest of world,” some corporate types called it — Colombia has been a major point of interest. Not only did Latin America’s third most-populous country promise a lot as it emer

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