“We came to stay 100 years and to consolidate our Latin American investments.” Juan Villalonga, July 1998. Former Chairman and CEO, Telefónica As José María Alvarez-Pallete, chairman and CEO of Telefónica, was receiving his ...
On February 26, the first case of Coronavirus in Latin America was confirmed in Brazil, in a 61-year-old patient who had traveled to Italy. What is next? War! “For several weeks, countries in the Americas ...
Last year, my friends at ICEX, the Spanish investment promotion agency, invited me to write a chapter in their Global LATAM series about Latin America’s international investments. It was an interesting exercise and it conrmed ...
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 ...
by Maria Tereza Fleury, Professor of International Strategy at University of São Paulo and FGV. The digital economy challenges for Latin American countries are coming strong in the agenda of both government and enterprises. How ...
Every year, Latin Trade publishes the ranking of the Top 25 Businesswomen in Latin America. But this year, we’ve created a new ranking naming the women who are well on their way to joining the ...
Interview with Fernando Honorato Barbosa, Chief Economist at Banco Bradesco After years of faltering GDP growth, Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) appear to be heading towards economic recovery. A slow one, however, as a ...
What big firms can learn from an innovative startup. Five years ago, having a courier pick up a package seven minutes after placing a request would have been close to a miracle in traffic-burdened São ...
These funds raised $3.7 billion in 2016. Interview with Lavca’s President and Director of Research. In 2016, private real estate funds targeting Latin America raised an aggregate $3.7 billion, an amount equivalent to 50 percent ...