LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES

5G technology advances in Latin America: there are 5 commercial networks and 30 tests were carried out last year

26/01/2020

5G commercial networks are making progress in Latin America. There are now five such networks in the region, and they are in Uruguay, where it was launched in April last year, and in Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, Suriname and Aruba (the last four were launched last December).

In Latin America 20 percent of the people have 83 percent of the wealth

21/01/2020

The non-governmental organization Oxfam International revealed today that in Latin America and the Caribbean, 20 percent of the population concentrates 83 percent of the wealth, with 104 billion people to date compared to 27 in 2000.

Political and Economic Crisis in Latin America: Causes and Main Challenges for the Region

06/01/2020

The Development Centre of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Andean Development Corporation (CAF) in their 2018 report warned that despite progress in income, 25% of Latin Americans still live in poverty. Moreover, 40% who escaped it are part...

China is getting deeper into Latin America and the dispute with the US is growing in the region

02/01/2020

The Asian giant became Argentina's main trading partner and did the same in Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Peru, and Uruguay. In addition, they lent money to the region for a value similar to the North American Marshall Plan in Europe.

Maersk includes three Chilean ports in its new service network for New Zealand-Asia

24/12/2019

Maersk announced its new service network for the New Zealand-Asia market, including three Chilean ports in one of the circuits.

Fintech regulation, a challenge for Latin America in 2020

24/12/2019

Mexico, Brazil and Colombia are the three leading nations in the region with the largest number of consolidated fintech companies.

Online betting, with three-digit increases

23/12/2019

Despite the fact that only 73.1 percent of urban areas in the country have Internet services and 40.6 percent in rural regions have connection, the growth of online platforms for casinos and gambling (also known as gambling) increases annually to triple digits in our country. Average user spending ranges from $70 pesos a day to $2,000 pesos a week,...

Latin America off the Oscar award list

22/12/2019

Gabriela Calvache, director of the Ecuadorian film La mala Noche, told EL TELÉGRAFO that she was "very sad that no film from Latin America has been selected for the next phase in the race for the 2019 Academy Oscar Awards, but that she particularly "does not feel defeated, because it was an opportunity that validates a quality".

Venezuela economy will continue to be the last in all of Latin America and the Caribbean

22/12/2019

In the short term, there is no solution to the economic, political and social crisis facing Venezuela. This is what the analysts assure and the figures support. Plunged into hyperinflation, which by November stood at 35.8%, Venezuela's economy is facing its worst crisis in recent history.

This is how the main Latin American economies will grow next year

22/12/2019

At the beginning of the year, government economic teams in most Latin American countries were devising strategies to cushion the blows that could come from international events such as the trade war between the United States and China, the delay in ratifying a trade treaty or the strengthening of the dollar. However, as the months went by, the...