In the first state visit by a Brazilian president to the country since 2005, President Dilma Rousseff travelled to Colombia on 9 October, four days later than planned due to the political crisis unfolding in Brasília. Trade between the two countries has grown by 165% since the last occasion a Brazilian head of state, Lula da Silva (2003-2011), visited, to reach around US$4bn a year. But it is worth noting that despite the fact Colombia is the third largest economy in the region, it is still only Brazil’s seventh-largest trading partner among Latin American countries.
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