March 28, 2010

By Carlos Macías

Despite negative stereotypes, Colombians are also famous for their laboriousness and a fearless entrepreneurial spirit. To validate this premise, you only need to ask Richard Andrew Áviles Ospina aka "Richie" about what kind of business he is into. "When someone asks me, I say with a smile on my face that I am a dry cleaner, and I have my business card to prove it." Richie is a Baruch College-CUNY graduate in Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management that is transforming his family-owned business dedicated to garment care into a local powerhouse of excellence and cutting-edge technology.

February 9, 2010

By Carlos Macías

Estefanía Montoya and Federico Guzmán belong to the first crop of PorColombians who envisioned our organization as a rallying point to improve Colombia from abroad. They are also the first PorColombian couple to get married. While fabricating the building blocks of our organization they realized that they shared an overflowing passion for Colombia and also made one terrific professional team. As Valentine's Day approaches, what a better chance to learn what inspired them to help create PorColombia and how this experience nurtured their relationship up to the point of tying the knot in late 2008.