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Latin CEO: Executive Strategies for the Americas
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Articles in April, 2000 issue of Latin CEO: Executive Strategies for the Americas
- Average annual growth rate of consumer prices
- The World Bank has issued one billion Mexican pesos
- PT Multimedia
- Mexico has reached a free trade agreement with Israel
- Agricultural dependence
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Banorte ascendant: five years after the collapse of the Mexican banking system, Monterrey's Banorte emerges as one of the clear winners
by Daniel J. McCosh -
Santiago slowdown: the Chilean stock market loses volume as the year progresses. Will new changes in investment regulations help pump it up?
by Mark Mulligan - Unibanco, Brazil's third-largest private bank
- Government deposit insurance agency IPAB
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A regional virtual bank
by Toby Muse -
Varig's flight plan
by Elizabeth Johnson -
Head of the class: the 2000 Mercedes-Benz S430 puts a new spin on luxury in the best tradition of Mercedes-Benz in Latin America
by Alex Krys - Banco Santander Central Hispano
- Brazilian jet manufacturer Empresa Brasileira de Aeronautica SA will supply 100 jets to US-based Continental Airlines
- In a US$555 million transaction, Dutch financial group ING Group has acquired a 39.7 percent stake in holding company Savia SA
- FTAA dissatisfaction
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Chocolate redux: Venezuela was once the world's biggest cacao producer. Now, Chocolates El Rey CEO Jorge Redmond Schlageter wants to return his country to the top ranks
by Christina Hoag -
Short-term economic outlook
by Manuel Lasaga -
Banking survival 101: in Latin American banking, the momentum is toward consolidation and outsourcing. It's either that, or losing marketshare to foreign banks
by Paul Simpson - Standard & Poor
- Moody's Investors Service
- Going online: Internet users
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Eye in the sky
by Simon Romero -
Banking on long-distance: for the CEO of long-distance provider Avantel, connecting Mexicans to the rest of the world is only one part of the strategy to battle Telmex
by Daniel J. McCosh -
Suite life in Mexico City: upgrades are nice, but when you must have the very best regardless of cost little can top these top-flight suites
by Daniel J. McCosh - Banking in Central America
- Barrick Gold Corp
- The government announced it will sell an 18.5 percent stake in Petroleo Brasileiro
- Pluspetrol-Hunt-SK, an Argentine, American and South Korean collaboration
- Wealth disparity
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Brazils fast-food king: Habib's founder Alberto Saraiva is taking his Brazilian franchise to Mexico. After that, he hopes, the world
by Larry Luxner -
Move over Mexico… here comes Brazil: does the recent rating upgrade for Mexico mean that it's time to buy Mexican equities? Think again
by Ian Laming - BCP Telecomunicacoes SA
- Anglo-Dutch consumer goods company Unilever has doubled its size in Central America with the US$314 million
- Siderurgica del Orinoco SA
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Privatizing the right way
by Daniel J. McCosh -
A mixed-use future: from hotels to affordable housing, Brascan's Jacky Delmar sees plenty of potential in the mix of Brazilian real estate. Better financing would help, too
by Larry Luxner -
www.patagon.com: news in two languages for Latin American investors
by Rochelle Broder-Singer - The Pinto principle
- Paying the minimum price of US$1 billion, Spain's Iberdola, Banco do Brasil
- Grupo Imsa has once again called off its plan to purchase Altos Hornos de Mexico
- Congress in debt
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Child's play: Nickelodeon jumps into the Brazilian market with an advertising campaign aimed directly at kids
by Jeffery Zbar -
Ripe for the picking
by Jeff Ostrowski -
Buenos Aires oasis: a taste of old England in Argentina, the Hurlingham Club harkens back to the days when the influence of the crown was at its height
by Ken Warn - Banco Itau, Brazil's second-largest private bank, more than doubled its net income in 1999 to US$1.06 billion
- US energy and engineering company Enron Corp. agreed to assume control of construction company
- Deficit accounting
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The new venture capital environment
by Rochelle Broder-Singer -
Portrait of a collector; Botero for breakfast, Wifredo Lam for lunch: the art of Jorge Perez
by J.P. Faber - Citigroup has agreed to buy back the 50-percent
- Gran Cadena de Almacenes Colombianos
- In a move to reduce its dependency on US currency, Venezuela
- Tourism booms
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Protecting the users: Network Associates' cutting-edge niche: reducing computer risk in Latin America
by Richard Westlund -
Have a seat
by Oscar Musibay - AES Corporation
- Bancolombia
- Coke bottler Panamerican Beverages Inc. and Pepsi bottler Sopresa CA
- Street life
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Deregulated in Peru: FirstCom's chief executive in Peru takes on a telecom giant, but with the power of a strong brand like AT&T behind him the battle is a little easier
by Lucien Chauvin -
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by Rochelle Broder-Singer
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