Isabella Conti tracks investment flows and corporate strategies within the Latin American market. She evaluates the impact of multinational presence on regional industrial growth.
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.
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.
This analysis takes Canada's latest list of mega-projects as its starting point, revealing the choice between past-oriented and future-oriented infrastructure investment, and extends to the real challenges Latin American countries face in resource dependence and energy transition.
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.
This article analyzes Mexico's sustainable finance regulatory innovations and market practices from a regional perspective, exploring the driving role of green, blue, and social bonds in the transformation of Latin American capital markets.
Nordic capital is accelerating its influx into Latin America, with the EU-Mercosur agreement serving as a catalyst, as the region shifts from resource exports to a hotspot for green transition investment.
Based on the Americas Quarterly annual report, this analyzes the four major trends affecting Latin America in 2025: Trump's return to the White House, intensifying climate change, the evolution of crime and declining fertility rates, as well as the transformation path of the regional economy amid resource opportunities and external risks.
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.
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.
From Argentine YouTuber to Mexican bank acquisition, from Colombian food group to Peruvian mining equipment innovation, the Latin American economy is showing new trends of diversification, capital deepening, and industrial upgrading.
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.
This article analyzes the leading position of Canadian companies in mining investments in Mexico, as well as the expansion constraints faced by U.S. companies due to policy restrictions, and explores the impact of this landscape on the North American mining supply chain and regional economy.
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.
Mexican fintech company Clip launches Mi Clip digital wallet, in partnership with Ant International, Mastercard, and Televisa-Univision, aiming to drive the transformation of Mexico's cash economy towards digital payments and promote financial inclusion.
Analyzing the implications of Mozambique's mining nationalization bill for trends in Latin American resource policies, and exploring how the wave of resource control in countries such as Chile, Mexico, and Bolivia is reshaping global capital flows and commodity patterns.
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.
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.