Tag: Central America

(Opinion) The Panama Canal, an engineering marvel and linchpin of global commerce has been under severe duress recently. Reduced rainfall in Central America, accentuated by the El-Niño event, has led to critical drops in water levels at the Canal. It's a...

By Leonardo Coutinho (Opinion) Chile ran smoothly. It was a country full of good examples for the continent. But some Chileans were not happy. They fell for the Bolivarian tale, which said that the well-resolved country of the region was going...

The appointment of new magistrates of the Supreme Court of Justice of Honduras has generated significant fissures within the Government of Honduras, headed by leftist Xiomara Castro. This has been evidenced in the criticism that the vice-president of the Central...

Central America is a region highly dependent on trade with the United States, but economic relations with China have accelerated and expanded rapidly in recent years. The eight countries that make up the Central American Integration System (SICA) are polarized...

In October, Honduras and Nicaragua continued with double-digit year-on-year inflation figures. In Guatemala, the consumer price index (CPI) accumulated variation was the highest in the last 14 years. Costa Rica, on the other hand, achieved its second consecutive month without...

Fuel prices have fluctuated substantially throughout 2022. The barrel price in New York opened the year at US$75.21 and closed yesterday at US$88.87 -an accumulated increase of 18.8%- and reached US$130 and US$123 in March and June, respectively. To avoid...

Family remittances in Central America's Northern Triangle (El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras) are on track to close their second-best year in the last ten years, a significant step considering that 2021 broke records. Family remittances to the three countries totaled...

Business leaders in Mexico and Central America say there are low expectations of a recession in their countries and are confident in the growth of their companies. However, according to the VIII KPMG CEO Outlook Survey, they recognize that there...

Every year, the Pacific Ocean gets a little smaller, and the Atlantic Ocean gets a little bigger. Even if it is only a difference of a few centimeters, the fact is that the American continent is moving away from Europe...