Analysis
Analysis: Payment Delays Due to Pandemic Put Peru’s Telcoms under Rising Pressure
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - While Peru has been proactive against the pandemic, the economic cost has been high.
The country’s GDP declined by 40%...
Investment Insights: Brazil and Mexico Contrast in Latin America’s Pandemic Experience
By Stéphane Monier, Lombard Odier Group, Geneva
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Images of green oxygen cylinders have come to symbolize a collapsing health system...
Analysis: Ecuador to Hold General Elections in Fragmented Political Landscape
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Ecuador is heading towards general elections scheduled for Sunday, February 7th, in which 16 candidates are vying for the...
The South American Guyana-Suriname Basin Could Be The Last Big Oil Boom
By Matthew Smith for Oilprice.com
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The tiny South American countries of Guyana and Suriname are the focus of Latin America’s...
Analysis: China Enters Argentina as Good Samaritan but Could Become a Trojan Horse
By Juan Carlos
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - While there is growing discomfort among African and other developing states about Chinese loans, Argentina, one of...
Analysis: How Paraguay Became Latin America´s ‘Lab for anti-Rights Ideas’
By Diana Cariboni for openDemocracy
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - In 2017 Paraguay became the world’s first country to ban gender issues from school education...
Analysis: Cuba Needs Deeper Economic Reform, Creditors say
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - (Reuters) Cuba must devalue and deregulate further after taking initial steps this year to restructure its ailing state-run economy...
Analysis: Massive Changes Ahead in Brazil´s Oil and Gas Industry Amid Global Competition
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Brazil needs to continue making important oil industry reforms in 2021 to remain as one of the world’s top...
Analysis: 2021 – Vaccine, a Jab of Economic Hope
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Vaccine. One word, only two syllables. All economic hopes distilled and summarized in one jab. If immunization of a...
Analysis: If Covid-19 Vaccines Cause Side-effects, Who Pays? Producers or Governments?
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - As the most ambitious inoculation initiative in history begins in an effort to combat the coronavirus pandemic, compensation for...
Strife with Indigenous Groups Could Derail Ecuador’s Drive to Become Mining Power
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Conflicts with indigenous communities have stalled operations at Ecuador’s San Carlos Panantza copper mining project, which the government of...
Opinion: Guyana and Suriname Can Underpin CARICOM Sovereignty and Prosperity
by Sir Ronald Sanders
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - (Opinion) The presidents of Guyana and Suriname have announced two major joint venture projects whose implementation...
Latin American Crime Cartels Turn to Crypto to Clean up Their Cash
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - In April 2019, Mexican police arrested suspected human trafficker Ignacio Santoyo in a plush area of the Caribbean resort...
Hunger and Protest: Maduro’s Rocky Rule in Venezuela
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Having weathered punishing sanctions and thinly veiled US invasion threats, Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro hopes to take Congress back...