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How Populism, China, and other drivers will affect business in Latin America.
The deals and projects of the past decade and the years to come.
The 50 companies that played an outstanding role in the formation of their respective sectors in recent years.
The featured stories of 2006 on Mining, Electric Power, Oil & Gas, Finance, Infrastructure, IT, and Telecom.
Big Ideas and Big Business in Latin America
The top TEN trends The TEN year revolution The Hall of Fame The Drivers 2006 Highlights
 
 
The TEN year revolution
The deals of the decade
The mining and metals sector is definitely the flavor of the decade when it comes to mergers and acquisitions. Taking a glance at the lists of deals which marked the decade, the largest transactions were concentrated in the last two years, most notably the acquisition of Canada-based Inco by CVRD at the end of 2006.
 
The Hall of Fame
The Drivers - China

JinGhe Chen doesn’t speak Spanish, but in May 2006 he made his second trip to Peru in only five months. Chen isn’t a tourist who has fallen in love with the country and its famous pisco sour. He is the CEO of ZiJin Mining Group Ltd reserves...
Highlighs - IT

JinGhe Chen doesn’t speak Spanish, but in May 2006 he made his second trip to Peru in only five months. Chen isn’t a tourist who has fallen in love with the country and its famous pisco sour. He is the CEO of ZiJin Mining Group Ltdreserves...
 
The Drivers - Populism
The morning of January 9, 2007 was a turbulent one for traders settling Latin American ADR’s on the New York Stock Exchange. The previous day, Venezuelan Presi-dent Hugo Chavez announced his intention to nationalize (among other...
US$14bn. That is what the BBVA Financial Group has invested since 1995 in acquiring banks, insurance companies and pension fund administrators...
The Hall of Fame
How do you maintain an annual rate of growth of 18% for 12 years? The company that has the answer is neither a dotcom nor a biotechnological...
The Hall of Fame

If there is one story of explosive growth in Latin
America in the last ten years, it is that of Mexico’s América Móvil. The wireless subsidiary...

The TEN year revolution
The top TEN projects of the past decade

 On July 7, 1998, the 20 turbines of the joint Argentine-Paraguayan Yacyretá hydroelectric complex, located on the Paraná River, began to turn for the first time. The project was thus finally completed, after the start of construction in 1983 and the gradual build up of operations since 1994.
 
The top TEN trends
1- Business Aimed At the Bottom of the Pyramid

Despite Latin America´s economic growth, the vast majority of the region´s population continues to live in poverty. According to data from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), 38.5% of Latin America´s population -- 205 million people – are considered poor.
 
The TEN year revolution
The top TEN projects of the next ten years

It is not the biggest Latin American mining project, but the transformation of the open cast Chuquicamata mine, in the north of Chile, into an underground operation poses enormous technical...
 
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