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 | 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 | Jul 9, 2019 | Argentina, General, Mercosur, Paraguay, Uruguay
We are devoting a series of posts on this blog to give you some down-to-earth thoughts on the recently-signed Mercosur/EU agreement. Our first post gave you some initial thoughts. But what’s Mercosur all about and why should UK companies* be paying attention? Mercosur...
by Gabriela | Jul 9, 2019 | Argentina, General, Mercosur, Paraguay, Uruguay
On 28th June, Mercosur (comprising Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay) and the EU reached a landmark agreement twenty-years in the making that creates a market of 800 million people. The amount of information, disinformation, analysis, opinions and passionate...
by Gabriela | Apr 10, 2019 | General
You can’t imagine my excitement: my friend Abby, my room-mate at Durham Uni many moons ago, is coming over to Uruguay on Saturday. Her first time in Latin America, a region I’ve shared my passion for with her for over 20 years (we are a bit like that here, you...
