Is drug use one of the “benefits” of globalization for the island? 

Brazilian police arrested Marcelo Odebrecht, the head of Latin America’s largest engineering and construction company Odebrecht SA.  To date, he is the most high-profile executive caught up in the corruption investigation at Petroleo Brasileiro, the state-run oil firm. 

Ecuadorian production cannot supply the local market demand for frozen precooked potatoes from fast food chains. 

Costa Rica has closed its borders to avocados from Mexico since May.  Mexico exports avocados to 20 countries, including Costa Rica.  

The livestock “boom” in Nicaragua seems to have ended. 

Three experiences show how communities can be protagonists in their own development. 

Conindustria President Juan Pablo Olalquiaga insists that “within a regime of free enterprise and free market, Venezuelans would have a much better chance.” 

A 17% drop in exports of during the first quarter of the year compared with the same period of 2014 was taken as a warning sign to question growth targets. 

Both Argentina and Colombia have plans to expand and promote domestic industrial production and manufacturing.  

Mexico’s LXII Congress carried out a long list of so-called reforms in energy, education, finance, and telecommunications.