From agritech to earthquake engineering and knowledge sharing, there's plenty to explore as far as that bilateral collaboration goes.

The tragedy that just struck us some days ago, I found... a really good connection with Christchurch.

Since they were recovering after 2011 and 2010 from the earthquakes, they did a really good job in the reconstruction and we are working on some cooperation, technical cooperation together.

We are starting some conversations about that.

That's the good part of being present in the country.

You find things that you never thought you were able to explore and to talk to and to work together to improve the lives of the people in the two countries.

Let's say Colombia is looking to improve their productivity in agriculture, and who better than New Zealand to help us with that? New Zealand is known in the world, such a small country, being so productive, always talking about green agriculture, to talk about food security from the perspective of not quantity but quality.

It tells the story of a struggling poet in Medellín who's out of work but finds a diamond in the rough.