Issue Oct 22-28 2025: According to the Bank of Ecuador, exports from the South American country topped US $24.406 million during the first eight months of 2025, its foreign sales climbing 7.7% with respect to 2024. Behind these figures lies an historically important shift: shrimp have displaced oil to become Ecuador’s main export.

Issue Oct 22-28 2025: According to a new study released by Costa Rica’s National Statistics and Census Institute (INEC) entitled the National Survey of Homes (Enaho), the rate of those living in poverty in the Central American country is estimated to be 15.2%, while the rates of those living in extreme poverty stands at roughly

Issue Oct 22-28 2025: The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) improved its regional growth forecast for this year by two-tenths of a percentage point compared to its last projection in August, raising its estimate to 2.4% after detecting “a less adverse international environment.”

Issue Oct 15-21 2025: Latin America’s economic problems are structural and enduring, and neither the market-oriented reforms of the 1980s nor the left-wing governments of recent decades have delivered sustained growth.

Issue Oct 15-21 2025: Health and well-being tourism represented over US $90 million in service exports for Guatemala in 2024 and forecasts suggest that it will close this year with a growth rate of 10%, totaling roughly US $100 million.

Issue Oct 15-21 2025: Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) is facing an increasingly dire situation: its production, logistical, and financial capacities are insufficient to meet the market demand for liquid hydrocarbons.

Issue Oct 15-21 2025: Just as concerns in Argentina are mounting over the news that the U.S. bailout of the South American country has not had the calming effect on markets that was anticipated, a new factor is exacerbating tensions: the banks that the U.S. Department of Treasury turned to in its plan to rescue

Issue Oct 08-14 2025: This year’s Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and Peter Howitt for their research on innovation-driven growth.

Issue Oct 08-14 2025: At 79%, Panama has one of the highest rates of professional burnout syndrome in Latin America, topped only by Argentina and Chile, with rates of 92% and 89% respectively.

Issue Oct 08-14 2025: The Allianz Global Wealth Report 2025 indicated that Chile was ranked as the country with the highest net financial wealth per capita in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2024, reaching 18,730 euros (U.S. $21,229).