by Gabriela | Jan 21, 2020 | Doing business
In this blog, we have analised statistics and indexes from a range of sources for the whole of Latin America and for individual countries. Our aim is to give you figures beyond GDP, GDP per capita and other obvious indicators you probably use already for your export...
by Gabriela | Dec 1, 2019 | Doing business
You’ve probably seen the headlines from Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador and, yes, Chile. Social unrest, and social violence, and all the memories they imply for our region, are back. We are not political analysts and we will not try to explain here what are some very...
by Gabriela | Sep 19, 2019 | Argentina, Doing business, Uruguay
Over a year ago, I posted about the duty free shop on the ferry between Argentina and Uruguay. A Twitter favourite, let me share with you some more pictures and reflections of a more recent trip onboard Francisco, the ferry named after the Pope, and its rather...
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 | 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...
