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

Region: Infrastructure a key concern at corporate summit

The Summit of the Americas (SOA) held in Panama City on 10-11 April will go down in history as a major political landmark, symbolised by the handshake between Presidents Barack Obama of the US and Raúl Castro of Cuba. But it wasn’t all politics: ahead of the SOA, Panama also hosted the second Chief Executive Officer Summit of the Americas (known as II CEO). Some 700 top business executives, including Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, América Móvil’s Carlos Slim, Construtora Odebrecht’s Marcello Odebrecht and the CEOs of Boeing, AES Corporation, Coca-Cola and Copa Holdings, among others, were in attendance.

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