Fertilizers for the powerful Brazilian agricultural industry, semiconductor chips for Mexican automakers or lack of ships to export Colombian coffee: Latin America is also beginning to feel the effects of the global supply crisis. Although the situation is not critical, as in the United States, where the Christmas season is threatened, the supply chain in […]
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IDB President: Latin America must avoid switching from Odebrecht to Chinese companies
The president of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Mauricio Claver-Carone, warned against Chinese penetration in Latin America, estimating that the region should not go beyond “the era of Odebrecht to the era of Chinese companies ”. The problem would be “for the region to move from the Odebrecht era to the era of Chinese companies,” […]
The Economist: rejection of Venezuela is driving the extreme right in Latin America
One night in October, Francisco Sagasti, who was Peru’s interim president for eight months until July, launched his new book in Barranco, a bohemian district of Lima. Sagasti, an academic, is a centrist who led the country through divisive elections. The event was interrupted by protesters who surrounded the bookstore shouting “corrupt” and “assassin”The author […]
The best tourist destinations for 2022 according to Lonely Planet
With the world slowly opening up after the pandemic, those who have vacations and can afford it are already thinking about traveling. According to BBCOne way to choose where is to look at Lonely Planet’s list of recommended places. The travel publisher published its annual Best in Travel last week, with destinations divided into countries, […]
Retailers lose love for Asia: manufacturers are forced into exodus to the Balkans and Latin America
Large clothing and footwear companies are moving their production to countries closer to their stores in the United States and Europe, given the resurgence of cases of the Delta variant of the coronavirus in Vietnam and China, which slowed or paralyzed production for several weeks at the beginning. of this year. The decision comes amid […]
The US is considering creating a vaccine manufacturing center for Latin America
USA evaluates helping to create a vaccine manufacturing center to Latin America that allows to manufacture more doses in the continent, and wants to support a project that seeks to do the same in West Africa, indicated an official source. These projects could be part of the infrastructure plan with which the United States wants […]
US foresees supply chain problems “until the end” of the pandemic
Supply chain problems in USA will continue “until the pandemic is truly over,” although “improvements are expected in the coming months,” said the US Secretary of Transportation, Pete Buttigieg. Asked about the bottlenecks in the global supply chain, the head of US Transportation recalled that companies in this country foresee an “unprecedented record” in the […]
Latin America and the EU join forces against organized crime finance
More than 150 representatives of institutions of Latin America and the Caribbean and the European Union (EU) They meet from Monday to Friday in Panama to “strengthen” the fight against organized crime finances, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Within the framework of the EU program “EL PAcCTO”, the event “The finances of organized crime: how […]
CAF will allocate US $ 25,000 million to promote “green growth”
Updated on 11/08/2021 02:39 pm The Development Bank of Latin America (CAF) will allocate US $ 25,000 million over the next five years to encourage climate action in the region, the entity reported on Monday in a press release that clarifies that the announcement was made during the United Nations Conference on Climate Change in […]
Borrell hopes that his trip to Latin America will reverse the lost weight of the EU
The high representative of the European Union for Foreign Policy, Josep Borrell, said he hopes his trip to Latin America, the first since he took office and which has led him this week to Peru and Brazil, serve to “reverse the trend” of weight loss in the EU in the region. “China in particular is […]