Category: The Americas Economy

Waiting for whiplash – Joe Biden will shift gears in Latin America | The Americas
Jan 14th 2021MEXICO CITY AND SÃO PAULOIN 2013, after WikiLeaks revea [...]

Driven away – Why Ford is leaving Brazil | The Americas
IN 1928 HENRY FORD built a factory in the Amazon rainforest. He plan [...]

Year in review: Latin America – Where the pandemic clobbered economies hardest | The Americas
The coronavirus exposes social, economic and political faultlinesJan [...]

Green wave, blue breakwater – Argentina’s legalisation of abortion will provoke a backlash | The Americas
WITHIN DAYS Argentina’s president, Alberto Fernández, is expected to [...]

Banning bus crawls – Small slips in Barbados cause a big spike in covid-19 | The Americas
Jan 9th 2021LITTLE GOOD HARBOURBARRACUDA, BLUE MARLIN and red snappe [...]

Home truths – The pandemic further weakens Latin America’s underperforming schools | The Americas
Sep 10th 2020MEXICO CITY AND SÃO PAULOEditor’s note: Some of our cov [...]

Welcome to Queueba – With shop shelves bare, Cuba mulls economic reforms | The Americas
Oct 8th 2020LONG QUEUES and empty shelves are old news in Cuba. Rece [...]

Alberto of the Antarctic – Argentina doubles in size, or so it claims | The Americas
ARGENTINA’S PRESIDENT, Alberto Fernández, has plenty to worry about: [...]

Bello – Latin America’s new poor | The Americas
Oct 8th 2020WHEN THE pandemic struck Piura, a city in northern Peru, [...]

VAT half-empty – Colombia tries to fix a messy and unfair tax | The Americas
THE POLITICS of value-added tax (VAT) are complicated in many countr [...]