But just south of its ancient walls lies Getsemani, Cartagena's hippest neighbourhood and one of Latin America's newest hotspots.
Rural communities in Africa, South Asia and Latin America are where the majority of hungry people are and the inequality that exists between women and men in these communities is holding back progress.
Yet his most important goal was the building of an alliance among the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean that would fulfil the frustrated dream of his great hero, South American independence leader Simon Bolivar, two centuries before.
These illicit profits have contributed to the political and economic destabilisation of Latin America, Afghanistan, the Caribbean and South East Asia.
Experts from government and civil society from Latin America, South Africa and the United States of America presented OER initiatives with high-impact, stressing the importance of collaboration, capacity-building and appropriate policy frameworks for incentives and recognition.
In addition to many speakers from Latin America there were presentations from South Africa and the United States of America.
The Bank of the South, launched in 2007 as a development bank by and for Latin America, was also touted as an important ingredient in the toolkit of solutions to the global crisis.
Chavez was a driving force in unifying Latin America, creating new regional organizations like the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC).
Emirates has also thrived by entering markets in the rest of the Middle East, Africa, South-East Asia, India and Latin America that had hitherto been poorly connected to the global air-transport network because of over-regulation, the absence of a strong local flag carrier and the indifference of established airlines.
Look south and the stock market of Brazil is down 12.4%, the iShares Latin America down 14%.
He was a determined advocate of South-South dialogue, building close relations with ideologically like-minded presidents across Latin America.
With a little stretching Gruber can call Agco, the U.S. farm equipment maker, a Latin stock since it will do 20% of its sales volume in South America this year.
In Latin America, Lula was seen as the more charismatic, if not more practical leader of South America.
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