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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.
Cannabis in Uruguay: facts and potential
Uruguay XXI, the country’s export and investment promotion agency (Uruguay’s DiT-equivalent, for those of you in the UK), has just published a report on investment opportunities in cannabis. As usual, it is an excellent piece of work. We’d like to share with you only...
Infrastructure: why are Latin Americans so upset?
In a recent post, we showed that Latin Americans are some of the least happy with their infrastructure in the world. The question is, are we right to be so upset? The short answer is, yes. In Americas Quarterly, Eric Parrado has summed up the situation: “For starters,...
Uruguay today: forestry, cellulose, livestock and wine
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the world still goes round and South America keeps demanding products and services from all over the world. We recently discussed some of the things that consumers and businesses are buying right now and we then focused on hygiene...
Latin America: opportunities in hygiene control post COVID-19
Last month we discussed how certain products and services are very much in demand right now across Latin American and we don’t mean the obvious like facemasks, ventilators, and medicines. Today, let’s look at hygiene control. Hygiene is one area that we see plenty of...
We still need food, lawyers and money: Latin America, COVID-19 and growth
Personally, I dislike the concept that there are “winners and losers” of the COVID-19 crisis. We’ve all seen our freedoms curtailed, friends and colleagues lose their jobs, relatives getting ill, our lives turned upside down. But there are certainly businesses that...
It’s ok.
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been speaking to people working in international trade from countries as diverse as the UK, Uruguay, Canada, Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Ireland, the US and Peru, to name a few. From those conversations I take away the smiles, the...