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Articles in Nov, 2005 issue of Latin Trade

• Gol, a Brazilian low-cost airline, increased an order to 101 from 63 with U.S. plane maker Boeing for model 737-800 New Generation airliners, an estimated US$3.77 billion expenditure if fully exercised, not considering customary discounts
• Bombardier Transportation, a unit of Canadian aircraft manufacturer Bombardier, won a US$244 million contract to build 14 streetcars for the Monterrey Mass Transport Authority in a consortium with Siemens and Grupo Garza Ponce
• Nemak
• The People's Tycoon
• Recount
  by Paulo Soares
• Useful things of beauty: 15 amazing gifts to give or get this holiday season. You could live without them, but why?
  by Greg Brown
• Rest of the world
• Big fish swimming
• Outsourced
  by Luisa Aguero
• Quilmes Industrial
• Harris Corporation, a U.S supplier of wireless telecommunications equipment, will distribute its digital radios in Colombia through Daga, a Colombian equipment reseller
• Telvent, a Spanish information technology company, will install monitoring and control systems on a Mexican natural gas pipeline operated by Energia Mayakan, a Mexican energy company
• Caterpillar
• The Andean Development Corporation approved US$333 million in loans to Ecuador to upgrade the country's electricity distribution system, highways and other urban development projects
• The innkeeper
  by Margarida O. Pfeifer
• Got no strings
  by Alexander V. Ragir
• Loyalty.test
• Petrobras
• Grupo Gigante, a Mexican grocery-store chain, borrowed US$270 million to restructure debts
• Dairy Queen
• Grape expectations: Brazilian vineyards, small in number, market themselves to global palates
  by Carlos Adese
• Power pack
  by Teodoro Kreckler
• High performance: the 11th Bravo Business Award honorees put the important things first—people
  by Greg Brown
• Mexico: a new addiction
  by Greg Brown
• Techint, an Argentine industrial group, consolidated its newly acquired Mexican steel maker Hylsamex with its domestic producer Siderar after wrapping up a US$2.25 billion tender offer
• Grupo Mexico
• Mexico
• Ericsson
• Latin Trade index
• Tough call
  by Greg Brown
• Internet ready: American Express wants credit card growth among middle-class Mexicans
  by Marisol Rueda
• Latin America and the Caribbean
• Protocol
• Cementos Bio Bio, a Chilean cement company, bought a 100% stake in Tecnomix, another Chilean cement company
• Camco, a Canadian appliance maker controlled by U.S. conglomerate General Electric , has agreed to sell for US$70.4 million all of its common shares to Controladora Mabe
• The world according to Alvaro …
  by Alvaro Uribe
• Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Economico e Social, Brazil's state-owned development bank
• Media is reality
• Mountain of money: Chile's ski resorts spend big to make more money on foreign vacationers
  by Jen Ross
• Tremors
• Kimberly-Clark, a U.S. maker of personal-paper products, and MedShare, a U.S. recycler of medical supplies, will distribute healthcare products to hospitals across Latin America
• Bancolombia, a Colombian bank, merged with its subsidiaries Conavi and Corfinsura
• Grupo Bimbo, a Mexican bakery, bought for an undisclosed sum brands and assets from Empresas Chocolates La Corona, a Mexican candy maker
• Praxair
• The International Finance Corporation, the private-sector lending arm of the World Bank, helped arrange US$105 million in financing for Trinidad Cement
• Out of options: abortion law in Latin America—woefully outdated—needs to change. Women's lives depend on it
  by Jack Epstein
• The weakest link
  by Andres Hernandez Alende
• Petrobras, Brazil's state run oil company, will rent an offshore oil rig from Saipem, a subsidiary of Italian oil and gas company ENI
• Industrias CH, a Mexican steel maker, bought for US$229 million PAV Republic, a U.S. producer of bar-quality steel
• Alpek
• The Leadership Secrets of Billy Graham
• Down under
• Hogan & Hartson LLP: finding innovative solutions for Latin American clients
• Venezuela: spreading the wealth
  by Greg Brown
• Strong northeaster: multinationals see growth in a forgotten slice of Brazil, despite lower incomes and great distances
  by Thierry Ogier
• Banco de Chile
• DESC
• Snack attack
  by C.J. Schexnayder
• Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Economico e Social, Brazil's development bank, approved US$112 million in financing to build a hydroelectric plant in Santa Catarina state
• Happy pill
• Managing the health of globally mobile employees
  by Kathy Sink
• Caemi Mineracao e Metalurgia
• Grupo Bimbo, a Mexican bakery, bought for US$126.4 million Controladora y Administradora de Pastelerias, which operates pastry-store chain El Globo, from Grupo Sanborns, a Mexican retailer controlled by billionaire Carlos Slim
• Alaska Airlines
• Electricity Deregulation
• Mitsui O.S.K. Lines
• Alternative investments can enhance portfolio returns and lessen volatility
• Privatizations
• Financing fix
• Even flow: Brazil plans to reroute a river to bring water to the parched north, but some say it's wasting money
  by Paulo Prada
• Lojas Americanas, a Brazilian retailer, bought for US$51.8 million a 99% stake in TV Sky Shop, a cable-television channel and Web site operator
• Empresas Ica
• Harvest Vinccler, a Venezuelan subsidiary of U.S. oil company Harvest Natural Resources, received a tax bill including penalties of US$94 million from the Venezuelan tax authority Seniat for the years 2001 through 2004
• Downfall
• Going flat
  by Toby Muse
• Road warrior: Santiago bottles traffic and pollution with an interconnected system of toll roads
  by Jorge Garreton
• Events
• Compania Anonima Nacional Telefonos de Venezuela