Great. Thank you so much.
There's been a lot of activity lately from Canadian firms in Colombia. Probably the biggest success story of the past year has been a Canadian company by the name of Pacific Rubiales in the oil sector in Colombia. It's been Canadian capital and Venezuelan talent. A lot of the talented people who left Venezuela and left the oil companies in Venezuela have come to Colombia. That's probably been the hot growth story for last year.
I've seen incremental interest from Canadian companies in oil, gas, gold mining, and infrastructure. There's a huge need for infrastructure in Colombia, because we did not invest in infrastructure for over 30 years because of violence. Most remote areas in Colombia are barely connected by road, and these are very simple, very narrow roads. There's a lot of investment to be done in that area.
We've also seen the largest Canadian institutional investors starting to come to Colombia, funds like PSP, for instance. Alberta Investment Management is coming to Colombia next month to see some opportunities. Brookfield Asset Management has come to Colombia recently. You know a few more, but the trade commission is back here....
Also, we see a lot of interest in oil services and mine services. We buy most of the mining equipment from Canada. All those large trucks we buy from Canada. For the coal mines, Colombia is exporting now nearly 80 million tonnes a year, and most of that gear we buy from Canada.
We see huge opportunities in agriculture. Because we're a tropical country, we buy our wheat, our barley, our corn, and our soybean meal mostly from the U.S. So definitely we see an opportunity here for Canadian exporters of grain. If they come before the U.S., without tariffs, into the Colombian market, it is a reality that they will displace the U.S. producers, which are now the suppliers to Colombia.
That's just to mention a few.