Visa’s “Everywhere Initiative” contest this year challenged Latin American startups to develop solutions to the question “How can Latin American and Caribbean startups specializing in technology improve financial services by transforming payment and commerce in the region.”

Telecommunications are vital to modern societies and can generate large sums of revenue.

In the past few years, the production of alternative fuel sources from biomass has substantially increased in Argentina, due to a desire for energy independence, growing environmental consciousness, and government stimulus.

After several attempted takeovers of experimental agricultural land around Honduras by housing developers, the government has stepped in to begin enforcing the laws protecting the land dedicated to agricultural research.

Osami Cepero and Ernestina are two producers of dairy products from Artemisa, “the clandestine dairy land of Cuba.”

A “crisis hangs over the heads” of coffee producing countries like Colombia, Brazil, and Peru due to the falling price of coffee.

Although the Central Bank of Nicaragua has not publicly acknowledged the situation and has not released statistics for any month since June, Nicaragua formally entered an economic recession on October 1, 2018, when it completed two consecutive trimesters without its GDP showing any signs of growth.

By the year 2020, it is expected that another 41 public works projects will be carried out, considering those of Fondo Capital and Fondo de Infraestructura Metropolitana Montevideo (FIMM), in addition to the usual road works with government funds.

China Railway 20 Bureau Group Corporation has won the contract to improve and operate the highway that runs through La Unión and Huallanca in the Huánuco region of Peru.

Cuba has a long history of producing sugar, yet the white sugar in Cuba’s market is no longer from the Caribbean island.