Chile
Chile learns how trust its military, 20 years after Pinochet
Chile has made great strides since the end of the Pinochet dictatorship in 1990. Under Pinochet there was extreme political repression, including at least 3,000 people who were “disappeared” and murdered because of their political opposition to the regime. In the last 20 years Chile has enjoyed rapid improvements in its economy and society, but [...]
Chile’s Silicon Valley
BusinessWeek
The information technology industry is constructing a new research and development hub for software: Santiago, Chile. The Latin American capital has the attributes that have made emerging markets attractive to outsourcers, such as cheap wages; dependable, state-of-the-art infrastructure; and government incentives. While Chile’s small labor force will hinder its rise, the country also boasts an [...]
China, electric cars to drive copper prices
Reuters
Asian urbanization coupled with the electrification of the auto industry should be a boon for copper prices and a huge benefit for copper mining countries such as top producer Chile, mining financier Robert Friedland said on Thursday.
Speaking at the CRU/CESCO copper conference in the Chilean capital of Santiago, Friedland said massive Chinese demand for automobiles [...]
Chile – A Latin American dynamo
Last week, I had a chance to spend a few days in Santiago Chile. I came away thinking that it will be the first country in LatAm to attain first world status. It already is well on its way there currently having highest GDP per capita in the region.
Simple things – the taxi drivers at [...]
Chilean President coming to India on March 16 to firm up ties
The Hindu : National
Michelle Bachelet, the first woman President of Chile, will arrive here on Monday on a five-day visit. She is expected to be accompanied by a high-level delegation, including the Ministers of Agriculture and Women Empowerment and a business delegation.
“India and Chile have enjoyed fruitful relations since the early days of Independence. It [...]
India, Chile should bolster economic ties: CII
In my experience in the U.S. and India, I find Chilean embassy staff to be amazingly business-friendly with a facilitative, and not a bureaucratic, mindset. That bodes well to attain the goals outlined in this study.
3 years ago in Delhi, then Chilean Ambassador to India, Amb. Jorge Heine invited me to meet him, and [...]
Milking greener pastures – Kiwi dairy Investments in LatAm
The Amuls of the world should follow.Stuff.co.nz
In barely three years, New Zealand Farming Systems Uruguay, Wrightson’s stockmarket-listed investment vehicle, has acquired 36,500 hectares of land and leases a further 3500ha. It has spent heavily on new pasture grasses, irrigation, roads, fencing, reticulated water supply to each paddock, milk sheds, staff accommodation, training and the other [...]
LatAm to reach 388 mln mobile lines by end-2008
Telecompaper
Latin America will reach over 388 million mobile lines in service at the end of this year, accounting for 9.6 percent of the overall mobile lines in service worldwide, according to the Information Society index (ISI) established by consulting firm Everis. Brazil is expected to end the year with 143.2 million phones, Mexico with 76.9 [...]
Boutique Wineries, Elite Wine Travels the World
Event Planner Spain
Small plots of land and a careful grape selection are the first steps that should be taken to produce “boutique wines”, a market in which Latin-American producers have surged ahead of the field in the past years. Even though is not an original idea from the New World, but French, since it emerged [...]
Latin Competitiveness Improves
Latin Business Chronicle
Latin America’s overall competitiveness is improving, according to the 2008-09 Global Competitiveness Index from the World Economic Forum. Brazil is gaining ground, while Mexico is becoming less competitive, the index shows. Mexico’s decline, coupled with the growth of Panama, has led Panama to replace Mexico as Latin America’s second-most competitive economy.
The Global Competitiveness [...]
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