While the Chilean Congress tries to provide an urgent solution to the lowest pensions in the country, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) report revealed several weaknesses in the national system, which has been strongly questioned in the massive demonstrations that have taken place.

Black Friday sales extended this year to Venezuela, a country that is plagued by historic levels of hyperinflation and now has de facto dollarization.

José Guerra, a Venezuelan economist, discussed the addition of a new currency in Venezuela and the complications arising as a result.

To understand if a de-dollarization of the economy is feasible, it is important to understand what dollarization is.

The Mexican National Petroleum company (Pemex) was subject to a cyberattack on November 10, which left it without access to much of its equipment.

Two of the most important infrastructure works currently in progress in Colombia across the Magdalena River, the main tributary of the country, will be completed next month, and ready for use in 2020, after an initial contract claiming it would be completed in May 2018.

The lack of US dollars available has obliged banks in Cuba to create waiting lists for Cuban nationals hoping to take money out of their accounts in foreign currency.

On November 6th, 2019, Costa Rica began a round of visits to international investors with the goal of negotiating the investment of $1.5 billion USD worth of Eurobonds.

Vizcarra stressed the importance of social development in parallel to economic development in his speech at the Peruvian Consortium of Economic and Social Research’s 30th Annual Research Seminar.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation (Minagri) announced that Peru is one of the main producers and exporters of bananas.