“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. 

The Uruguay-Germany commerce and industry chamber (AHK), expressed concern over the current tension in relations between Uruguay and Argentina. 

Despite South America‘s huge exports by volume (tons of oil, coal, iron ore, soybeans, wood and copper), several countries (Brazil,Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Argentina, Ecuador) can barely pay for their imports. 

Latin America is betting on healthy, organic, and traditional foods to conquer the U.S. market. 

In an effort to please the productive sector, President Dilma Rousseff planned to meet again with entrepreneurs and to announce the extension of programs that appeal to industry, though many investors think Mexico is a better prospect for investment than Brazil. 

The governor of Miranda, Henrique Capriles, wondered if Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro knows who is to blame for the country’s inflation.  The Central Bank had its own ideas. 

The G77 and China summit held the weekend of June 14 in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, was deemed the “ideal setting” for a pronouncement by Revolución Ciudadana, the political project led by the President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa.