Guatemalan municipalities with higher rates of poverty are most likely to have had lower rates of public investment over the past five years. Guatemala also ranks among the ten most vulnerable countries to climate change worldwide. 

The trajectory of the Peruvian economy over the last decade has been impressive, based on imitating the Chilean experience.  And even though not all is well in the land of the Incas, it is still looking better than Chile. 

Signs of self-sustaining recovery in some advanced economies are offset by slowing growth in emerging markets. 

Brazil’s central bank kept the key interest rate (the Selic) unchanged, while Chile’s central bank cut the country’s benchmark interest rate. 

Economy minister Axel Kicillof reminded the vultures that they never actually lent Argentina a cent, while insisting that a stay from Judge Thomas Grisea is necessary to give his government time to work out a deal.  The Brazilians looked on with anxiety, the Uruguayans called out the U.S. for its less than objective role, and

Landlocked Paraguay has become the new “soybean king” with a harvest of over 9 million tons. 

“Our challenge is to position bananas in the Chinese market.”  So said Mariella Molina, Eucador’s Consul General in Guangzhou (southern China)and Head of the Commercial Office in that city.  

Breast implants that include microchips are marketed primarily in European countries, Japan and Costa Rica. 

Cuba’s communist government is seeking foreign partners to develop industries to increase exports and decrease imports of all kinds.   

As the electoral calendar moves along, President Evo Morales presented a plan to make Bolivia “the powerhouse of the region” by 2020.