According to the Brazilian Association of the Industry of Pet Products (ABINPET), 2016 was a particularly hard year for the pet products’ industry in Brazil.

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) hosted a conference for regional countries at which they could examine their international financing trends, learn how to mobilize their resources, and achieve new sustainable development goals.

Marco Kremerman, an economist at Fundación Sol and writer for a column in Ciper, addressed low salaries in Chile, calling the situation is “as real as it is ridiculous: in Chile salaries are not enough to live on.”

While many analysts believed that the economic crisis in Venezuela had reached its nadir, many experts are suggesting that things will get even worse before they get better.

The government claims that increasing the national minimum wage will reinvigorate the economy.

Executives from some of Argentina’s top firms shared advice with young professionals at the Management 2020 conference in Buenos Aires.

InstaCarro and Car$Sale have started virtual auctions of used cars with the participation of thousands of buyers. A second hand car can be sold very quickly now in Brazil in this innovative way.

For two consecutive months, unemployment has stayed at 3.5% for the Economically Active Population, maintaining the lowest levels since the end of 2007.

In Buenos, Aires, Argentina, local farmers recently gave away 20,000 kilos of vegetables to protest poor labor conditions and the high rent prices they pay on the land they farm.

In recent years, many of South America’s largest economies have seen crises, from Brazil to Mexico.