The new law will be a boon for consumers and business, and open the floor to smaller operators. Last week Mexico took the final steps in passing a reform of the telecommunications sector that promises ...
Protests have brought a quarter-million people to Brazil’s streets – with implications for next year’s presidential election says Marcos Troyjo of Columbia’s BRICLab.Nearly a quarter million people have taken to the streets in Brazil’s largest ...
President says the country will move forward with $40 billion canal project, pending feasibility studies.A transoceanic canal through Nicaragua has long been a dream in that country. Many have tried, and failed, to complete a ...
The president pushed a major overhaul of the country’s ports through Congress, which will increase investment by $27 billion. Brazil’s ports are one of the major obstacles to the country’s growth. The country’s 34 ports ...
The new chief says he will ease the blockages in global trade. Viva o Brasil! The World Trade Organization (WTO) announced the selection today of Roberto Carvalho de Azevêdo as the new Director-General of the ...
IMF report predicts modest growth, and urges the region’s economies to lay the groundwork for long-term, sustainable development. Countries in Latin America and the Caribbean should see economic growth of 3.5 percent this year – ...
Analysts believe he will promote pragmatic policies and restore relations with neighbors.The candidate of Paraguay’s conservative Colorado Party coasted to victory on Sunday, marking a return to power for the party that ruled the country ...
Venezuela’s economy will close this year with an inflation greater than 30 percent and growth of only 1.8 percent. Can that forecast be altered? What comes after Chavez.“We’re capable of ensuring stability, democracy and peace ...
Minister of Finance Guido Mantega lists economic conditions, tax incentives and figures of a large underserved market to convince investors to participate in a $200 billion concession program to be announced Tuesday in New York.“In ...
Full text of the 12 February addressMr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, fellow citizens:Fifty-one years ago, John F. Kennedy declared to this Chamber that “the Constitution makes us not rivals for power but ...