by Gabriela | Apr 3, 2018 | General
UK trade with Latin America made it to The Times! Not the crisis in Venezuela, not the drug problems in Mexico, not the footballing stories, but an article focusing on doing business between the UK and Latin America. You must excuse my excitement (and my sarcasm)....
by Gabriela | Mar 8, 2018 | General
I was delighted to be invited by the North East Chamber of Commerce and the Department for International Trade North East to present to regional companies about opportunities in Latin America. I was very impressed by the turnout and by the potential for companies from...
by Gabriela | Aug 29, 2017 | General
I’ve visited Ecuador twice now. It’s a very interesting country, with a lot of potential. After a controversial election earlier this year, Lenin Moreno is now president. The previous president, Rafael Correa, was a very controversial figure, particularly in his...
by Gabriela | Jun 22, 2017 | Doing business, General, Uruguay
Earlier this year, I wrote about PPPs in Uruguay and asked the question: are they totally doomed? Then I said to watch this space – and here’s why. Martin Finnigan, a PPP expert from Scotland and Director at Caledonian Economics in Edinburgh (where I had the pleasure...
by Gabriela | Nov 1, 2016 | General
Let’s read what the World Bank has to tell us about Latin America in 2017: “Latin America and the Caribbean is expected to face another year of weak economic performance [in 2016] due to domestic challenges among the region’s largest economies, depressed commodity...
by Gabriela | Nov 1, 2016 | Doing business, General
“Free-trade zone, also called foreign-trade zone, formerly free port, an area within which goods may be landed, handled, manufactured or reconfigured, and reexported without the intervention of the customs authorities. Only when the goods are moved to consumers within...
