Some of the best-selling cars in Latin America do not meet the recommended safety standards and manufacturers market their least safe versions in the region, according to the New Car Assessment Program for America and the Caribbean (Latin NCAP).  

The Caribbean coast is enjoying a wave of investment in the port sector.  In Colombia, Cartagena is emerging as one of the most important industrial regions of the country. What’s going on in this city?

With the oil boom diluted at a loss of US $7.000 billion and a slowdown in non-oil exports,

The deputy minister of Telecommunications has been presented with an infrastructure plan to provide for the development of new regulations and other modifications, but some issues that need to be addressed are still pending.

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) warned that Latin America will grow until 2020 at an average annual rate of just 1.7%, less than half the 4% growth that the region saw from 2003 to 2013.  The IDB is urging investment in infrastructure and proposing deep fiscal reforms.

A group of experts talked about how to break the barriers of film distribution in the Latin American market.

Mexico’s public finances will be strengthened with Banxico’s transfer of 239 billion pesos destined for the Treasury, which will allow for much needed support to be given to Petróleos Mexicanos.

The president of the National Society of Mining, Petroleum and Energy (SNMPE), Carlos Gálvez, analyzed the prospects for that sector in the coming years, in the context of the recent presidential election which seemed to indicate a strong criticism of the current economic development system.

In 1995, the Guatemalan company Saúl E. Méndez arrived in the country with the idea of conquering the Costa Rican men’s clothing and fashion market. Although it did not fail in this task, the company has now decided to venture into the restaurant business.

Congressional approval of the agreement with the vulture funds and increased utility rates are set parts of the new economic policy. Both decisions keep internal coherence as part of the restoration plan of a neoliberal model.