by Gabriela Castro-Fontoura | May 26, 2020 | General
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...
by Gabriela Castro-Fontoura | May 24, 2020 | General
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,...
by Gabriela Castro-Fontoura | May 17, 2020 | General
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...
by Gabriela Castro-Fontoura | May 11, 2020 | Doing business, General, Manufacturing
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...
by Gabriela Castro-Fontoura | Apr 26, 2020 | 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 | 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...
