Colombia: Barranquilla can be a sustainable meat export point

Jaime Pumarejo, mayor of Barranquilla, stated that his dream is to make Barranquilla a port for the export of beef from pasture-fed beef on sustainable farms, harmonizing projects of strategic importance such as the Caribbean Train and deep-water port. Jaime Alberto Pumarejo Heins, mayor of Barranquilla, was the first of the dignitaries to speak at the installation of the 39th National Cattlemen's Congress that is taking place at the Puerta de Oro Convention Center in Barranquilla on November 17 and 18. The meeting was attended by the President of the Republic, Gustavo Francisco Petro Urrego; the Minister of Agriculture, Cecilia López Montaño; José Félix Lafaurie Rivera, executive president of the Colombian Federation of Cattlemen (Fedegán), and Jaime Rafael Daza Almendrales, general secretary of Fedegán. (Read: "We believe that Total Peace is not possible without the economic and social recovery of the countryside": Lafaurie) The president of Barranquilla began his speech by ...