Latin American Economy & Business - January 2015 (ISSN 1741-7430)

It almost certainly won’t all go smoothly, but for now, things are moving fast.... Read More

This year will be challenging for Venezuela, to put it mildly.... Read More

While there were a number of concerns about the performance of the Latin American economies last year, in retrospect inflation – for the vast majority of countries – was not one of them.... Read More

By most metrics, Guyana's economy has performed well in recent years.... Read More

OAS, one of Brazil’s top construction companies, failed to make US$16m in bond payments on 2 January, and was seeking to restructure its debts and asset holdings in an attempt to avoid a default.... Read More

Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg paid a flying visit to Colombia on 14 January, where he met President Juan Manuel Santos and launched a free Internet access service in an alliance with Tigo, a local mobile operator.... Read More

While the Mexican financial system is broadly perceived as being in good shape, the collapse last November of Ficrea, a credit union, has raised a number of questions over regulatory weaknesses.... Read More

It was a particularly challenging year for Argentina’s automobile assembly plants in 2014, for many years considered to lie at the heart of the country’s manufacturing sector.... Read More

Ecuador secured an impressive US$7.5bn in new lending from China in early January.... Read More

It took 21 years after the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) but Mexican truckers will soon be able to operate in the US rather than having to unload their cargo at the border to be taken on to its destination in US trucks. Under the 1994 Nafta treaty, Texas, California, New Mexico, and Arizona were meant to be opened up to Mexican trucks by December 1995 and all constraints on their free circulation lifted by 2000.... Read More

In many of the Caribbean countries most dependent on tourism, activity has been stagnating (or worse) over recent years.... Read More