Our readers located outside of Colombia may not have noticed but the Colombia peso has soared lately, and pundits expect it to cross the 5,000 pesos-to-the-dollar barrier any day. It may have already done so by the time you read this article. Inevitably the finger pointing has started. Colombian President Gustavo Petro blames the United States. Business groups tend to blame Petro. In the interest of truth if not beauty, we looked at the data.