As we have seen here in Panama, the growing middle class is is a huge new consumer base that is helping to fuel the economic growth throughout Latin America. The irony, as laid out in a recent report by the International Monetary Fund, is that history’s traditional No. 1 consumer, the United States, is still sputtering from the […]
El Visitante or The Visitor, which is a weekly newspaper here in Panama, always grabs my attention with it’s great cover stories. Jacob Ehler pens a great story with the opening of Carnival here in Panama. Carnival is coming, are you prepared? The Carnival is coming to Penonome, Panama City, La Chorrera and Las Tablas. This […]
After living in Miami for 35 years, I always was amazed at how the Port of Miami functioned. It was an incredible logistics process for moving cargo and people as it was located right off Biscayne Boulevard in Downtown Miami. It seems that it is now going to get a lot busier and will profit […]
We are seeing a rising middle class in every country in Latin America except for Venezuela and that has to do with increased trade and productivity of it’s people. This in from the Washington Post. USHUAIA, ARGENTINA – Here at the end of the Earth, just 600 miles from Antarctica, tourists hike over glaciers and […]
Back in Florida I see where Port Everglades is ramping up for increased trade with Latin America. One of the improvements includes the dredging a deeper channel to accommodate the larger ships that will be passing through the Panama Canal when it’s expansion is complete in 2014. Broward County‘s seaport is undertaking a $2 […]
STRONG DRIVER Caterpillar continues to outperform its multinational peers in Latin America. (Photo: Jo Mateix) As reported in the Latin Business Chronical Latin America continues to outperform global sales for US and European multinationals. These are heady times for multinational companies active in Latin America. Revenues from the region rose an average 17.2 percent for the […]
As reported in Bloomberg, the world’s biggest Internet-search company, is opening new offices in Latin America and boosting staffing levels by 50 percent to capitalize on its fastest-growing region. Latin America now has some of the best fiber based networks in the world and the populace is taking advantage of this. Revenue from Latin America surged […]
I have found that being transparent with the United States Internal Revenue Service has always been the best policy. If you have not and you are found out, the penalties are horrific. Just breeze through the following and see more on this. 2011 Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Initiative Frequently Asked Questions and Answers
I read recently where Panama’s Vice President and Foreign Minister, Juan Carlos Varela, and the Regional Director of Project Services of the United Nations, María Noel Vaeza, signed a memorandum for the construction of the Offices of the Regional Centre for Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations in Panama. “The construction […]
Don Winner had an interesting post that I would like to share with you on the newly completed Trump project here in Panama. By Tim Rogers (Panama City) The global real estate slump has not soured Donald Trump’s flavor for grandiosity. He’s merely going global with it. In Panama. This week two of his three […]