Latin America’s booming pharma industry is a local affair
Getting older and wealthier by the day, Latin Americans increasingly visit their pharmacy. Since 2008, the region is by far the fastest growing pharmaceutical market in the world. By 2017, Brazil will...
View Article2014 – Rising Investor Risk in South America
Since protests in Brazil took its leaders and the world by surprise in June 2013, many have wondered if the political frustrations of Latin America’s largest nation might soon spread elsewhere. The...
View ArticleReversal of Fortunes in Latin America
Over the last 10 years, fortune has smiled upon exporters of natural resources. In Latin America, countries in Central America, the Caribbean and México, all tied traditionally to the U.S. economy,...
View ArticleThe Chinese Debt Crisis – Domino Effect On Latin America
China today is much more than South America’s second largest customer. China is the largest source of soft loans to these governments. With growth slowing, skyrocketing municipal debt will soon lead to...
View ArticleMéxico, Stand Up and Deliver
If Mexican authorities embrace the rule of law and create a more competitive and transparent playing field for investors, then México will take a step towards the first world. By John Price The...
View Article2015 Time to kick the tires again in Latin America
Latin American investing has always rewarded the contrarian thinker – 2015 will prove no exception. The collapse of commodity prices and the corresponding dent in the region’s currencies provides an...
View ArticleCuba: Big fuss, small market
By John Price Since the Obama administration made its diplomatic overture on December 17, 2014, the pace of change in U.S.-Cuban relations has been exhilarating. The U.S. embargo of Cuba, which has...
View ArticleLatin America In search of a mission
On stage with Presidents Enrique Peña Nieto of Mexico and Dilma Rousseff of Brazil, President Barack Obama uttered a timely quip that brought the business audience to its feet, summarized as follows:...
View ArticleChinese investment in Latin America – no longer business as usual
An era of lavishly priced acquisitions of resource assets in Latin America by Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) appears to have ended. China’s engagement with the region will now chart a new...
View ArticleLatin America’s long-term growth market: Empty Nesters
Latin America is the world’s fastest aging region. According to the UN’s Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), 40 years from now the number of Latin Americans over 60 years...
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