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Latin American Economy & Business - February 2018 (ISSN 1741-7430)
Leader
Formally at least, China’s ambitious One Belt, One Road (OBOR) initiative is all about building up trade, transport and investment links across Eurasia – and it doesn’t reach as far as Latin America.... Read More
Regional Economy Review
On 8 January the US government served 18 months’ notice of its intention to terminate the temporary protected status (TPS) visa programme that benefits approximately 200,000 citizens of El Salvador, raising the prospect that many of them will have to return home.... Read More
President Mauricio Macri did well in the October 2017 legislative elections, which he interpreted as a green light indicating electoral support for a structural transformation of the Argentine economy.... Read More
After a difficult 2017, with the economy estimated to have grown by around 1.5%, the outlook for the Colombian economy in this election year is modestly positive.... Read More
On 27 January President Juan Orlando Hernández was sworn in for a second four-year term in office, promising to deliver further economic improvements.... Read More
Perspectives on Brazil’s long battle to emerge from recession and to reform its lopsided economy are changing.... Read More
The sixth round of Canada-Mexico-US talks on the future of the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) were held in Montreal on 23-29 January, amid conflicting signals over the ultimate outcome.... Read More
Despite significant uncertainty about the future of Nafta, data released from Mexico’s statistical institute, Inegi, revealed that the economy performed strongly in the fourth quarter of 2017.... Read More
The government tapped capital markets on 9 January, raising US$3bn, in the fourth bond issuance in under a year.... Read More
After holding the official exchange rate known as ‘Dipro’ steady at BsF10:$ for nearly two years, President Nicolás Maduro announced the elimination of this official rate on 31 January.... Read More
Special Focus
Nicaragua remains an outlier in Central America.... Read More
Regional Business Review
Mexico has a unique wrestling culture, known as Lucha Libre, involving acrobatic masked fighters; it can trace its history back to the 1930s and earlier.... Read More
Mexican government officials have confirmed that in the second half of this year a pilot national carbon emissions trading system will be put in place, involving around 500 companies transacting certificates representing some 400m tonnes of CO2.... Read More
The results of the latest auction of oil and gas blocks (known as Phase 4, Round 2) were announced on 31 January and quickly hailed by officials as one of the most successful to date.... Read More
With unexpected speed, a series of protest meetings and ‘tractorcades’ have swept across different parts of the country, as Uruguayan farmers vent their anger against the centre-left government of President Tabaré Vázquez.... Read More
Protests and clashes spread out across parts of central Peru in early February, as farmers reacted to a fall in potato prices.... Read More
SQM settles in Chile: SQM, Chile’s leading lithium and fertiliser producer, said at the end of January that it had reached an out-of-court settlement with state prosecutors investigating its involvement in making alleged illicit campaign contributions in 2008-2015.... Read More
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- Time to take the China road?
- El Salvador: Assessing the economic impact of TPS termination
- Argentina: Macri working out the structural reform jigsaw puzzle
- Colombia: Modestly positive outlook for 2018
- Honduras: The economy under Hernández (again)
- Brazil: Relax about now, worry about then
- Mexico: Nafta guessing game continues
- Mexico: Mexican economy bounces back firmly in Q4
- Ecuador: Ecuador returns to international capital markets
- Venezuela: Venezuela announces maxi-devaluation
- Nicaragua: An oasis of stability in a turbulent region
- Mexico Mexican wrestling gets ready to compete
- Mexico: Getting ready for carbon trading
- Mexico: Successful deepwater auction
- Uruguay: Unhappy farmers take action
- Peru: Potato troubles
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