From Panama and Elsewhere: Inspiring Latin America by Claudia Terrade

Today at the head of Quimbaya, which has 16 agencies located in 11 different countries, Claudia Terrade has found everything in Latin America: her professional path, love, but also an inexhaustible source of wonder and encounters...

2021-04-08
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Introduction

Today at the head of Quimbaya, which has 16 agencies located in 11 different countries, Claudia Terrade has found everything in Latin America: her professional path, love, but also an inexhaustible source of wonder and encounters. For COTAL, she tells about her atypical career, talks about her profession and shares her many favorites across the continent, between Aztec pyramids, extraordinary museums and natural paradises still intact.
Introduction
Career Journey

Career Journey

Claudia Terrade: I do not come from tourism or the business world. My professional life started in Parisian hospitals, where I was an intensive care nurse. While working at the hospital, I did a master's degree at the Institute of Higher Studies on Latin America – IHEAL – devoted to all aspects of Latin American societies, from pre-Columbian history to the economic system of each country. I am of Colombian origin, which binds me closely to Latin America.

Life in Panama

In Latin America, I put my suitcases in Panama, a very pleasant country where life is peaceful and simple. Panamanians are warm and welcoming, they have always lived with people from elsewhere and this is not a problem for them. Communities of different origins, cultures and traditions coexist in harmony and without conflict. Nature and modernity come together permanently: I happen to meet agoutis, iguanas, toucans, pelicans, sloths and other wild animals near my home, while walking along the Paseo del Canal!
Life in Panama