Colombia Wages War on Cash With New Central Bank Payment Network
Bogotá's largest food market is on the front line of the Colombian central bank's war on cash.
Every morning, shoppers swarm Paloquemao for everything from sizzling arepas to ripe avocados and freshly-cut roses trucked in from farms an hour away.
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