11.  For some Colombian companies, the falling peso represents opportunities to make money.

12.  Holguin urged Colombian companies to band together and shut down the economy to force Samper out.

13.  It will raise funds through a private placement of equity, new debt contracted by the Colombian companies and other financing by the two selling companies.

14.  The Atlantico consortium included Cruz Blanca Transportes SA of Chile, Odebrecht SA of Brazil and the Santa Marta Regional Port Society as well as other Colombian companies.

15.  The employees worked with Colombian engineering company Inversismica, the second seismic company contracted by Occidental.

16.  The group, known as ANIF, said trade sanctions from the U.S. would cut foreign investment and increase the costs for Colombian companies to sell debt.

17.  The security services also analyze the risks of doing business with a given Colombian company, perusing court records for potential legal or tax problems.

18.  Those dollars are then bought by Colombian companies that use them to buy American consumer goods cheaply for sale back home.

19.  When a venerable Colombian company that makes light fixtures badly needed capital, salvation came from an unusual source.

20.  With the government soaking up domestic sources of finance, Colombian companies have increasingly turned to foreign banks.