More than 350 women, mostly single mothers who have up to five children, have started their own businesses in Honduras as “microentrepreneurs.” 

Mexican manufacturing reported annual declines in the first quarter of 2014 in 9 of its 21 subsectors, according to the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (NEGI).  

Used by Colombian rural people for centuries to clear land, machetes are becoming a significant business for Colombia, which has become the world’s largest exporter. 

Havana is turning more state businesses into cooperatives as part of its political balancing act in allowing the slow but controlled rise of capitalism. 

Chile needs to get used to more volatile copper prices, says Codelco’s CEO Thomas Keller. 

Half a century after the 1964 coup that plunged Brazil into a dictatorship, ghosts of the military regime’s economic policy still walk the earth, in the manipulation of prices to control inflation, and in an industrial strategy of choosing “national champions” through strong government support. 

President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner reported that the French government concurs as a amicus curiae (friend of the court) in support of Argentina’s request for review in the U.S. Court in its dispute with the “vulture funds.” 

Peru’s government has reached an agreement with informal miners that have been protesting throughout the Andean country over efforts to regulate their activities. 

So noted Juan José Lagorio BNAmericas of Santiago.  Colombia has approved 26.2 trillion pesos (US$13.4 billion) in funding for nine highway projects, part of a master plan to revamp and expand Latin America’s fourth largest road network. 

In El Financiero of Mexico City Rocóo Hernández Monreal wrote that Héctor López Santillana, Minister of Economic Development for the State of Guanajuato, said that conditions are good there for the creation of at least “eight clusters” in the agro-food, chemical, fashion, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, tourism, new technologies, and housing sectors that can repeat the success