by Gabriela | Jun 21, 2019 | Doing business
Warning: don’t take this post too seriously. If you do business in English/Spanish every day (particularly between Latin America and the UK), like I do, you will have no doubt come across some words that you will struggle to translate. Some, to me, reflect differences...
by Gabriela | Jun 9, 2019 | Argentina, Trade Shows
When you think that Argentina has nearly 60% inflation, a currency more used to defaults than glory and a macroeconomic profile usually only second to Venezuela’s, you wonder how this country keeps going. You couldn’t be blamed for imagining a very gloomy Buenos...
by Gabriela | Apr 10, 2019 | General
You can’t imagine my excitement: my friend Abby, my room-mate at Durham Uni many moons ago, is coming over to Uruguay on Saturday. Her first time in Latin America, a region I’ve shared my passion for with her for over 20 years (we are a bit like that here, you...
by Gabriela | Apr 10, 2019 | Doing business, Uruguay
I was at Durham Uni when I grasped the concept of the damage of plastic bags to the environment – I was studying (“reading”, as we say in Durham) Economics, and paying even a penny for a bag was a disincentive that worked wonders (these were the days when you had to...
by Gabriela | Feb 14, 2019 | Doing business
10 teenage players died in a fire at the Flamengo youth team training centre this month (BBC News). How could this possibly happen? Why does it happen so often? And why is hardly anything done about it? Beyond the actual facts of this specific case, there’s a few...
