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Atlanta’s Technology Ties With Latin America Strong, Growing

Atlanta’s Technology Ties With Latin America Strong, Growing

Other cities like Miami might have the edge in recognition, but Atlanta’s ties with Latin America, especially on the technology front, are substantive and growing.  Recognizing this — and strategizing around how to build on the momentum — was the subject of a late-January “Latinnovations” panel discussion organized by Global Atlanta. The event was part Read more

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Georgia’s Ag Department Looks Overseas for New Markets to Compensate for Tariff Losses

Georgia’s Ag Department Looks Overseas for New Markets to Compensate for Tariff Losses

Newly arrived in July at the Georgia Department of Agriculture in charge of business development overseas for Georgia produce, Paul Thompson was off immediately to Indonesia. After seven and a half years at the Atlanta State Farmers Market, Mr. Thompson’s calendar now is full of possible trips to all corners of the world, most often Read more

  • Chile
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    • Technology

Invest Atlanta Is Deepening Innovation Ties With These Two Latin American Countries 

Invest Atlanta Is Deepening Innovation Ties With These Two Latin American Countries 

Invest Atlanta is seeing growing momentum for its strategy to deepen the city’s innovation ties with Latin America, particularly with two key countries in the region. The economic development organization led an exploratory mission to Chile and Colombia last fall to better understand the best ways to link Atlanta’s growing tech scene with their emerging Read more

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KSU’s Division of Global Affairs Honors International Achievement

KSU’s Division of Global Affairs Honors International Achievement

Kennesaw State University has presented its International Achievement Awards this year to a wide range of recipients including an authority on classical architecture and urban planning, three entrepreneurial sisters from Cartagena, Colombia, a member of the faculty of the  university’s business school, and a vice chancellor of a university in Ghana. Rodney Mims Cook Jr., Read more

  • Colombia
    • Education

Construction Entrepreneurs Underwrite $40K Georgia Tech Fellowship for Colombian Students

Construction Entrepreneurs Underwrite $40K Georgia Tech Fellowship for Colombian Students

Guiomar Obregon is no stranger to the challenges of arriving in the U.S. as a an international student.   Even though she’s had American citizenship since her birth in Boston, the situation hits home for the co-founder of Precision 2000, the award-winning Atlanta construction firm she started with her husband, Carlos Sanchez. They both came Read more

  • Argentina
    • Culture

Seven from the Atlanta Music Project to Perform in Mexico City With 293 Peers From Across the Americas

Seven from the Atlanta Music Project to Perform in Mexico City With 293 Peers From Across the Americas

Seven teenage members of the Atlanta Music Project, an intensive music education program, are to perform in an international orchestra of 300 young musicians from around the Americas at a festival in Mexico City Feb. 28-March 4. Stephanie Shapiro, director of development for the project, told Global Atlanta that Maestro Gustavo Dudamel, the 37-year-old music Read more

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Georgia State Offers Fast-Track to Global Business Readiness

Georgia State Offers Fast-Track to Global Business Readiness

Editor’s note: This is a sponsored post produced for Georgia State University’s Robinson College of Business. It’s only a year long, but Master’s of International Business students at Georgia State University could already see how the degree will influence their futures as they approached December graduation.

  • Colombia
    • Business
    • Education

Why They Chose the Georgia State Master’s of International Business: Monica Mendoza

Editor’s note: This Q&A is sponsored by Georgia State University’s Robinson College of Business. Name: Monica Priscila Mendoza Ramos City and country where you’re from: Bogota, Colombia Employer and title: CARE, Fellow at the Office of the President Global Atlanta: What made this program right for you? Ms. Mendoza: Since I graduated with an economics Read more

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    • Business

Chile Acquisition Could Expand Sovos’s Atlanta Office

Chile Acquisition Could Expand Sovos’s Atlanta Office

The former base of Invoiceware International in Atlanta is likely to benefit from its new owner’s continued expansion into South America. 

  • Americas
    • Business
    • Diplomacy

Will Colombia’s Journey to Peace Lead to a New Prosperity? 

Will Colombia’s Journey to Peace Lead to a New Prosperity? 

Colombia reached a major milestone in its journey toward peace with this week’s first major disarmament by its principal rebel group. But the 7,000-plus weapons laid down by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known by their Spanish acronym FARC, are personal weapons and a fraction of what remains stashed around the country.  Perhaps more importantly, political uncertainty looms Read more

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