On Monday, November 6, Brazil’s president Michel Temer decided that the proposal for the privatization of Eletrobras will be sent to Congress by way of a bill.

Institutional weakness, high tax rates, barriers to free competition, gaps in the labor market and an inadequate innovational sector are all factors that contribute to Colombia’s lack of development over the last two decades.

Exports of goods manufactured in Costa Rica reached a growth of 9%, the highest level recently noted.

After five years of falls in exportation prices and a weak increase in exported volume, Latin America and the Caribbean will experience a growth in the value of their goods sent abroad.

Campana is the industrial capital of the humid pampas region of Argentina. The town, 70 kilometers from the capital on the Paraná River, was envisioned at the beginning of the 20th century as the ideal place to settle the petrochemical industry.

Hygienic and cosmetic products consumption, an industry mainly dominated by women, is helping to assist the growth of the Peruvian economy.

The pilots’ union in Colombia, the ACDAC, is demanding that their salaries be equal to those of pilots in other Latin American nations.

The Colombian government hopes to promote the fight against smuggling and end the importation of products at low prices.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is known for the era of digitalization, which has produced intelligent factories, the “internet of things,” and endless inventions that are produced to facilitate tasks for humans, and even replacing their labor.

The international “gourmet coffee boom” has given new life to one of the oldest industries in the small Central American country of Nicaragua.