Is Mexico in a recession? Well, yes … and no. Ever since joining NAFTA, Mexico has operated two economies. Sometimes, the two economies walk in lock-step, but most of the time they are somewhat out ...
Latin America’s two largest economies are now governed by populists. Both Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and Jair Bolsonaro are political renegades, promising to up-end the political status quo after a period of unprecedented corruption ...
Latin America may have more to gain than lose in a U.S.-China trade dispute, so long as it does not spiral into a global recession, provoking trade war. China and the U.S. are both the ...
Multinationals boast many competitive advantages from scale to talent to cheap cost of capital. So why are they so shy about leveraging their financing strength in emerging markets like Latin America? They would be smart ...
“2018 provides a bold test of voter discontent as Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Cuba, Costa Rica, Paraguay, and Venezuela are all scheduled to go to the polls.” Latin Americans are fed up with politics as usual. ...
Latin America is the world’s fastest aging region. According to the UN’s Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), 40 years from now the number of Latin Americans over 60 years old will ...
An era of lavishly priced acquisitions of resource assets in Latin America by Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) appears to have ended. China’s engagement with the region will now chart a new course, one that is ...
On stage with Presidents Enrique Peña Nieto of Mexico and Dilma Rousseff of Brazil, President Barack Obama uttered a timely quip that brought the business audience to its feet, summarized as follows: “We’ve come a ...
By John Price Since the Obama administration made its diplomatic overture on December 17, 2014, the pace of change in U.S.-Cuban relations has been exhilarating. The U.S. embargo of Cuba, which has stood as a ...
Latin American investing has always rewarded the contrarian thinker – 2015 will prove no exception. The collapse of commodity prices and the corresponding dent in the region’s currencies provides an attractive entrée for value investors. ...