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Our blog posts are designed to bridge the gap between your business and Latin America to help you make informed and timely business decisions. We are based on the ground right here in the region so we use our daily experience of working directly with local companies to give you up-to-date and relevant news and valuable business and cultural insights.
Why does translation cost so much?
As our readers will know, we are firm believers in the benefits of professional translations. But clients often ask why translation costs so much. So this month we've invited Paul Bondsfield and Antonios Koutsounouris from Planet Languages, a full-service translation...
What you can realistically achieve in Latin America in 2021
We don’t know when a COVID-19 vaccine will be available in each of the 20+ countries in the region, or the way in which it will be phased out. We don’t know when international business travel will be back to normal to, from or within the region. We know our economies...
Going solo: your very own market visit to Latin America
Taking part of a group trade mission to a foreign market has many benefits, such as getting to know other exporters back home, learning from each other’s experiences, and usually being able to split the bill and reduce costs. We recently wrote about organising trade...
How to prepare for a virtual trade mission to Latin America
Last month, we wrote about virtual trade missions for those in charge of organising them at embassies, trade promotion bodies, associations and other kind of organisations. We promised we’d also write a post for SMEs who participate in those missions to Latin America,...
How difficult is it to do business with Latin America?
We started off this year with the intent to share with our blog and newsletter readers one stat-based article a month. We began with the Prosperity Index and Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index - and we even wrote about why and how to use stats...
Organising a virtual trade mission to Latin America?
I’m not sure about you, but I’m starting to come to terms with the idea that we will not be able to travel internationally much next year, at least for the first six months. That means that we are very likely to see the number of virtual trade missions grow and,...