Colombia has come a long way since the Anarchy of the 1990’s. It’s capital Bogota has been listed by Fortune magazine as one of the top 15 new business cities.

The presence of multinational companies, such as Citibank and McDonalds, as well as a the availability of a skilled workforce, solid infrastructure and potential customers, has led to Bogota’s new ranking.

According to a review on the magazine’s website, “A World Bank study recently ranked Colombia No. 2 in Latin America for entrepreneurs (it takes just days to incorporate a company) but large multinationals like Bogota too: Citibank and McDonald’s have set up there, and call centers serving the world are proliferating in the city. Why? Colombians speak clear, unaccented Spanish.”

As some who has Colombian relatives and Spaniard relatives, I can confirm. Colombians speak the best Spanish in Latin America. In fact some of the regions in Colombia sound identical to Spain Spanish.

Congrats to Colombia, they are a rising nation and will be a regional power house in the future. We should cultivate this relationship.