The three largest economies in Latin America are not feeling overly peppy. 

Latin American nations should pursue a “productive transformative agenda” if they want to keep their rates of economic growth above 5%, said the Director of Public Policy and Competitiveness at the Development Bank of Latin America-CAF, Michael Penfold. 

Gone are the young people who do not look at the label. 

The Dominican Republic’s State-bank could be signaling a closer embrace of mainland China. 

In its handling of e-waste Central America is a model for the rest of the world today, said a leading international expert. 

Peru is the second most profitable country in the region for direct foreign investment.  President Ollanta Humala said that mining companies should help Peru reduce its dependency on metal prices. 

Across the region the international day in celebration of labor was contested territory.  In several countries with center-left governments May Day festivities were used to reaffirm the government’s role in the economy, while opposition members used the day to complain about government overreach.  In countries with “neoliberal” governments opposition movements protested the lack of government

The Argentine Industrial Union, UIA, the country’s most powerful manufacturers’ lobby, released the results of a poll covering 300 corporations that decried the low level of economic activity expected this year, and predicate little in the way of jobs creation and more layoffs. 

The bad news is that the Colombian exports to the United States have fallen; the good news is that the informal economy is shrinking. 

Combined coffee exports from nine countries in Latin America (not including Brazil) fell 2.85% in the first half of harvest that began in October.