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BOGOTA, COLOMBIA — The Colombian peso is on a hot streak, and that’s good for national pride, consumers of luxury imports and tourists heading to Disney World. But it’s a bouquet of trouble for Bogota ...

FACATATIVÁ, COLOMBIA — Your Valentine's Day roses were probably cut from the stem in a farm outside of Bogotá by a man like Raúl Olmos. Olmos has worked in Colombia's flower fields for two decades.

Months before the Tonys medallions were distributed to the winners, before Broadway’s brightest stars put on their finest, before, even, the nominations were announced, farmers in Colombia were ...