Lessons from Macri’s win
By Dan Restrepo, Fellow, Center for American Progress With Argentina’s mid-term election in the books, U.S.-based Latin America watchers are engaging in their usual, predictable responses – a series...
View ArticleHow is Latin America beating the U.S., China and Europe in FDI?
Ingo Ploger, President, Strategic Council, CEAL Latin America’s reputation remains shaken and is under fire. In Brazil, the presidency passed a vote of confidence in Congress, confirming its...
View ArticleMine your business: Lithium in Latin America
Jerry Haar You’ve seen it on TV—a smoking suitcase in an airport check-in line. A spontaneous fire in a handbag in a supermarket shopping cart. Is the culprit: ISIS? Al-Qaeda? No, lithium. The...
View ArticleIncreasing value through reputation management
By Ingo Plöger, President, Strategic Council, CEAL Reputation is a perception of values that people have for a person, products, companies, sectors, institutions and countries. Value increase or...
View ArticleU.S. Immigration Politics: Reshaped by Internal Migration?
Migration is reshaping the U.S. political landscape—but perhaps not in the way most believe. At a time when anti-immigrant restrictionists appear on the rise in the United States, a nearly invisible...
View ArticleEurope’s rough year ahead
Latin Trade’s audio partners Altamar latest podcast: Europe’s rough year ahead. Political turmoil is not unique to the US, it appears. Across the Atlantic, Europe is in flux. By and large, the center...
View ArticleMission Impossible 2018: Rex Tillerson’s Americas Tour
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s recent tour of Latin America and the Caribbean might as well have been dubbed “Mission Impossible 2018.” Against a growing chorus of nativist and protectionist...
View ArticleTillerson’s Trip to Latin America: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
By Cynthia Arnson, Director, Latin American Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars With a handful of notable exceptions, the tone and substance of Secretary of State Rex...
View ArticleLook Out: TPP About to Bring Next Big Trade Wave
By Jason Marczak, Director, Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center Next week will open a new chapter in global commerce. On March 8, eleven countries will gather in Santiago, Chile, to...
View ArticleInnovation in Mexico: Rays of sunshine among the clouds
By Jerry Haar The Age of Anxiety is a long, six-part poem composed by W.H. Auden in 1947. The title is also an apt description for what Mexicans are experiencing today, as well as foreign companies...
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