China-Latin America Trade: Balancing out
Trade with China is reaching more normal rates of yearly growth; Colombia and Costa Rica are this year’s success stories.
IMF report predicts modest growth, and urges the region’s economies to lay the groundwork for long-term, sustainable development.
Remittances were largely flat year-over-year in 2012 due to a sluggish Spanish economy.
Haiti, Venezuela, and Honduras top our index for the second year as the most dangerous countries in the Americas.
Albeit the cooling-off of Latin America's GDP growth in 2012, the region gained dynamism as destination for products sourced from the beleaguered euro-zone. According to Eurostat figures,
Students with limited access to education in Latin America sometimes fail to develop cognitive skills needed for success. Latin Education Index shows how Guatemala and Haiti lag in this area.
Isabel Noboa, head of Consorcio Nobis, highlights the group's domestic and international expansion plans. Nobis is one of Ecuador's most important business conglomerates.
More than $31.6 billion in 20 major infrastructure bids which are open in 7 countries, are listed in the new Latin Business Chronicle Infrastructure Guide. Descriptions, deadlines and contacts for each bid.
Panama is expected to be the Latin American GDP growth leader the next five years.
Regulatory risks and reforms that will impact business in Ecuador and Bolivia.
Ecuador’s economic costs are rising as a result of no EU trade agreement.
De-dollarization has becomes inevitable. And Correa’s track record shows it will likely be quite messy.
The Quito airport project is back on track, but may be too little, too late, some experts warn.
Default and oil expropriations have cost Ecuador billions of dollars in lost foreign direct investments the past few years.
What countries in Latin America will benefit from the oil price surge? What countries will lose most?
The $9 billion verdict against Chevron in Ecuador represents a travesty of justice.
Private foreign investment in Ecuador's oil sector is likely to fall as a result of new laws for the sector, experts say.
Peru and Ecuador lead growth in Canada trade, but Mexico remains the top partner.
Presents video footage showing Ecuadorian court-appointed investigator in collusion with plaintiffs.
Foreign oil firms in Ecuador have to accept renewed contract terms or face expropriation. Chevron presents evidence of fraud.
Letter to Ecuador's Prosecutor General Washington Pesantez from Chevron attorney Thomas F. Cullen, Jr.
A government party official asks for a $3 million bribe to him, Correa and a judge to hand out environmental remediation contracts.
"The Ecuador Reader" provides a useful but limited collection of essays that showcase the diversity and anomalies of one of the most fascinating nations in the hemisphere.
Where the rule of law is respected, cases like those against Dole Foods and Chevron don't stand a chance.
Dollarization has provided Ecuador with the longest period of a stable currency in a century, but is now likely on its way out.
A country-by-country overview of the inflation outlook this year in Latin America.
An Ecuadorian investigator has presented no new evidence to justify the $27 billion claim, Chevron says.
Ecuador is heading towards debt default, an end to dollarization, soaring inflation and economic decline.
Chevron denounces fabricated evidence and political interference in Ecuador.
Economic freedom and individual liberty are under attack in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador.
Ecuador's amazing ATPDEA hypocracy and how Newsweek got its facts wrong.
Thanks to an angry and authoritarian president, Ecuador will see less private investment and more poverty.
An in-depth analysis of first quarter revenue, profit and subscriber data from Telefonica and America Movil.
Ronn Pineo’s book misinterprets the history of Ecuadorian-American relations.
It is not Chevron which should be sued for environmental damages in Ecuador, but the country's own state oil company.
Three experts on the results of Ecuador's withdrawal of bilateral investment treaties.
President Rafael Correa's economic policies are nothing but a recipe for disaster in Ecuador.
The lack of investment is making Ecuador one of the slowest growing countries in Latin America.
President Correa's oil policies will result in more disputes with foreign companies and reduced oil production, experts predict.
Ecuador's constituent assembly will be copying a page from Hugo Chavez' playbook.
Chevron denounces faulty "evidence" and "expert" bias in the $6 billion contamination case in Ecuador.
Another election looms for a country that has been in a constant state of transition for more than a decade.
A US court has dismissed an Ecuadorean lawsuit against Chevron, but the firm is concerned about an even bigger case in Ecuador.
The erosion of Ecuador's political and macroeconomic conditions is putting it on a trajectory to debt default - or the end of Correa's presidency.
Winners: Panama, Peru and the Dominican Republic. Losers: Haiti and Ecuador.
Joan Kuyek at MiningWatch Canada responds to open letters from Ruben Naichap of the Shuar Federation of Zamora Chinchipe and Jose Aviles of the Ecuador Amazon Indigenous Nationalities Confederation.
Open letter from Jose Aviles from the Ecuador Amazon Indigenous Nationalities Confederation to Joan Kuyek of MiningWatch Canada.
Open letter to Joan Kuyek, national Coordinator of MiningWatch Canada, from the Shuar Federation of Zamora Chinchipe in Ecuador.
The constant barrage of Bolivarian rhetoric, political intrigue and corruptions scandals are preventing Ecuador from realizing its full potential.
Ecuador, already hostile to foreign companies, advocates a novel oil policy. Meanwhile, Chevron sets the record straight.
What does the vote mean for Ecuador's outlook? Is the business and investment climate improving as a result of the process, or is it a setback?
Colombia is among the main beneficiaries of the growing "resource nationalism" in neighboring countries. A closer look at Latin America's top oil producers.
Most investors disregard the new authoritarianism tendencies, but they could have dire implications for the future.
To counter Chavez, the United States should approve existing free trade agreements and negotiate new ones as well as extend trade preferences to Bolivia and Ecuador.
The reckless abandon of the Ecuadorian and the Venezuelan governments reflect the lack of regional leadership in Latin America.
Is dollarization threatened by Ecuador's radical new president, Rafael Correa — or is Correa threatened by dollarization?
There is no rational reason for Ecuador to default. Trying to repeat the Argentine experience would be tantamount to suicide.
Correa promises protectionist policies, but may gain some support for a debt renegotiation instead of a default.
Political instability and economic volatility are expected to be the main results of the presidential victory of Rafael Correa, a populist-leftist ally of Hugo Chavez.
If Rafael Correa wins the November runoff, his actions in office could provoke capital flight, argues Stephen Johnson.
Local and foreign investors are breathing a sigh of relief after the Sunday elections in Ecuador failed to produce a victory for radical Rafael Correa. However, there are mixed feelings about his main rival in the second round, business mogul Alvaro Noboa.
Will Chavez ally win presidential elections in Ecuador next month?
Panama will see the strongest economic growth next year, followed by Argentina. Ecuador will see the lowest expansion.
Ecuador has many world-class companies, but few world-class politicians. And that is a problem for foreign investors.
Ecuador's expropriation of Oxy properties and its new hydrocarbons law will boost oil revenues in the short term, but be more a curse than a blessing in the long run, Global Insight predicts.
The EU still has to wait for the big prize - a free trade agreement with Mercosur, but in the interim Central America and parts of the Andean Community are ready.
Latin American countries that dollarize can double their trade with other dollar economies and expand GDP, experts say. But some economists warn that dollarization won't work for all countries in the region.
