Mercosur and the Pacific Alliance: Whither the Relationship?
Cynthia J. Arnson Director, Latin American Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars On July 30, Mercosur’s Council of Ministers—its most important governing body other than the...
View ArticleCan China Make New Friends in Latin America?
By Margaret Myers, director of the China and Latin America Program at the Washington-based Inter-American Dialogue China’s relations with Latin America are evolving somewhat as a result of the region’s...
View ArticleInbound FDI—A Bright Spot for the U.S. in Global Commerce
By Jerry Haar In both political and military battles there are casualties. During this election season, one of the most notable casualties is free trade. The bipartisan piling on –slamming NAFTA, TPP,...
View ArticleFree Trade at the Crossroads
By Jerry Haar Trade agreements are like oysters, Jägermeister and Jackson Pollock paintings—you either love them or hate them. In the current political milieu, anti-trade proponents have the upper...
View ArticleBeyond Commodities: Argentina’s Dynamic Biotech Industry
By Jerry Haar and Krystal Rodriguez The dictionary definition of crucible is “an extremely difficult experience or situation; a severe test or trial”. This is precisely where most of Latin America...
View ArticleA Critical Year for Argentina
By Cynthia J. Arnson Director, Latin American Program Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars In late January, Argentine government officials finally had some encouraging data that a long...
View ArticleWelcome to the post-New World Order
Jerry Haar and Altug Ulkumen Veni, vidi, vici. (“I came, I saw, I conquered”) Julius Caesar, 26 BC. Donald Trump, 2017. However, the new U.S. president confronts a landscape far more daunting and...
View ArticleGood corporate citizenry, no longer a choice but a necessity
When queried at a 1909 business meeting about the choice of colors available for his automobiles, Henry Ford replied that customers could have any color they wanted as long as it is black. Fast forward...
View ArticleLessons from G20: Integration, not exclusion
By Ingo Plöger, President, Strategic Council of CEAL The highlight of G20 was to make the distinction of national interest versus international commitments. While the UK has to manage Brexit, the U.S....
View ArticleInternationalization 4.0 and emerging countries
Industry 4.0, what lies behind this new “4.0 brand”? This hot topic has been the focus of many reports and debates. New ways of interaction between humans and machines, improvements in transferring...
View ArticleCorporate Sustainability—the New Mandate
Jerry Haar and Carlos Parra Is the exclusive aim of the corporation to maximize profit and shareholder value or does it have an obligation to do more? This question—and dilemma—has been vigorously...
View ArticleTowards a new industrial policy in Colombia
Scanning the business and political environments in South America, there is no country, with the exception of Chile, that matches Colombia in terms of stability and performance. On a large scale,...
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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...
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How 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...
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