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Isabella Conti

Senior Analyst, Investment & Business

Isabella Conti tracks investment flows and corporate strategies within the Latin American market. She evaluates the impact of multinational presence on regional industrial growth.

isabella.conti@latamreport.org

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Regional Briefing

From resource complementarity to strategic synergy: How does CORAL 2026 reshape the economic ties between Latin America and Russia?

This article analyzes the deep impact of the First Russia-Latin America Strategic Cooperation Forum (CORAL 2026) on regional trade patterns from the perspective of Latin American economics and development, explores how Latin America can enhance its strategic autonomy amid great-power competition, and identifies potential beneficiary sectors such as agriculture and energy.

Isabella Conti5 min read
Digital Latin America

Digital Dependency and Technological Autonomy: How Latin American Tech Companies Seek New Positioning in the Global Oligopoly Landscape

Latin American tech companies (Technolatinas) are growing rapidly, yet they remain deeply dependent on the infrastructure of US and Chinese tech giants. The global technology oligopoly is reshaping Latin America's digital dependency relationships, presenting the regional economy with new challenges and opportunities.

Isabella Conti4 min read
Commodities & Trade

The Critical Minerals Era Begins: Latin American Mining Transitions from Resource Export to Global Supply Chain Hub.

The global energy transition is redefining the value of mining in Latin America. This article analyzes, from a regional perspective, how critical minerals such as lithium and copper are driving changes in the economic landscape of Latin America, as well as the impact of social conflicts, infrastructure, and regulatory challenges on the future of mining.

Isabella Conti5 min read
Infrastructure LATAM

How India's Infrastructure Boom Highlights Transformation Opportunities for Latin America

India's top ten megaprojects reveal a new phase in the Global South's infrastructure race. How can Latin America draw lessons from this and build its own competitiveness? This article interprets the strategic logic behind India's projects from a regional perspective and examines the core bottlenecks and potential breakthrough paths for Latin American infrastructure.

Isabella Conti5 min read
Commodities & Trade

Expansion of Chancay Port and Santos Port: How Chinese Capital Reshapes South American Trade Logistics Landscape

Chinese investments in Peru's Chancay Port and Brazil's Santos Port are reshaping South America's trade routes to Asia, reducing shipping times, boosting grain export efficiency, and planning a transcontinental railway. This marks a new phase in Latin American infrastructure modernization and signals adjustments in the global trade landscape.

Isabella Conti6 min read
Economic Outlook

Latin America's Outbound Tourism Rise: Global Tourism Restructuring and a New Growth Engine

Latin America is becoming the most dynamic region for global outbound tourism. A younger, more digital, and experience-driven traveler base is driving consumption upgrades. Caribbean destinations need to seize these opportunities, but with differentiated strategies. This article analyzes the driving forces behind Latin American outbound tourism, its impact on the global travel market, and trends for the next five years.

Isabella Conti4 min read
Commodities & Trade

From passive participation to proactive strategy: global mining governance is accelerating its restructuring, highlighting Latin America's critical mineral status.

Governments around the world are shifting from being mining bystanders to proactive strategists in securing critical mineral supply chains. The United States is increasing investments in Latin America, India has launched a national mission, African countries are raising tax rates, and Kazakhstan is pursuing industrial upgrades. Latin America, as a core production region for lithium, copper, and rare earths, is becoming a focal point of great power competition, and its resource advantages are reshaping the regional economic landscape.

Isabella Conti4 min read
Commodities & Trade

Venezuela's Mining Restart: Reshuffling and Challenges of Latin America's Resource Landscape

After Maduro's departure, Venezuela introduced a new mining law aiming to open up to foreign investment, but its mining revival faces deep-seated challenges such as illegal mining, institutional corruption, and infrastructure collapse. This is both a microcosm of the ebbing of Latin American resource nationalism and a reflection of the region's repositioning in the critical mineral supply chain.

Isabella Conti4 min read
Commodities & Trade

Critical mineral cooperation heats up: Brazil is turning its resource advantages into new industrial bargaining power

Brazil’s deepening cooperation with the United States around critical mineral supply chains reflects the new position of Latin American resource-rich countries in the energy transition and supply chain reconfiguration. For Brazil, the challenge is not merely to expand extraction, but to leverage financing, mergers and acquisitions, and international partnerships to turn rare earths, lithium, nickel, copper, and niobium into higher-level industrial and capital advantages.

Isabella Conti8 min read