by Gabriela Castro-Fontoura | Apr 26, 2020 | Doing business, General
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...
by Gabriela Castro-Fontoura | Apr 15, 2020 | Doing business, General
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...
by Gabriela Castro-Fontoura | Apr 10, 2020 | Doing business
I was reading a rather revealing 2018 white paper by Rachel Hesketh from the Policy Institute at King’s titled “Towards a culture of exporting: how to help UK exporters do more and do better” when I came across this: “According to the FSB survey, more than three...
by Gabriela Castro-Fontoura | Mar 17, 2020 | Doing business
Given recent developments worldwide, this is our statement on how we plan to communicate with you and what we can do to support you. It is also a guide to see what you and your team can still do for your exports once you’ve dealt with the urgent. This can all be...
by Gabriela Castro-Fontoura | Feb 23, 2020 | Doing business, Energy, mining & infrastructure
We have covered a wide range of stats about Latin America on our blog. Last month we discussed a prosperity index and we even posted about how to use stats when researching export markets on LinkedIn. This month we are also discussing infrastructure here. What stats...
by Gabriela | Jan 26, 2020 | Doing business
Corruption in Latin America When discussing barriers to trade in Latin America, corruption almost undoubtedly comes up, particularly from companies that have no experience in the region and often from those who tend to see Latin America as one big homogeneous block....
