Over the past ten years, one of the defining features of the Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center at the Atlantic Council has been its commitment to consultation and consensus-building. This approach engages stakeholders, both regional and international, and forces them to break through the noise and find common ground on...

The mission of the Adrienne Arsht Latin American Center at the Atlantic Council centers on the task of elevating Latin America’s importance on a global scale and in promoting greater socioeconomic prosperity in the region. Its secret to success, however, lies not only on this distinctive goal, but in on...

It’s been over a year since Mexican mining giant Grupo México has been the strongest Latin American company, financially speaking, as it completed its sixth quarter on top of Latin Trade’s Financial Strength Index, for the second quarter of 2023. The index uses the companies’ leverage, liquidity, turnover and quarterly...

During the Battle of Britain in the summer of 1940, the aerial conflict between the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the German Luftwaffe, reached its apex and resulted in a defensive victory for England. Praising the RAF, Prime Minister Winston Churchill proclaimed: “Never in the field of human conflict was so...

The Latin Trade Profitability Drivers Index 2Q 2023 Over 180 listed companies in Latin America with more than $300 million in revenues made it to the Latin Trade’s Profitability Drivers Index for the second quarter of 2023. Brazilian Oil & Gas Comgás takes the first spot as the most profitable...

Chilean Latam Airlines continues to be the most profitable logistics company in Latin America by revenues, with an impressive threefold increase in profits from the same quarter the previous year, and a 44% increase in its revenues over the same period, according to the latest Latin Trade Top 20 Latin...

The reality of international relations has changed profoundly, meaning that in the imagination of world leaders the geopolitical framework has changed once and for all, making other decisions necessary, for the main purpose of containing risk, and then in the search for better alternatives. The international scenario is moving quickly...

Guyana’s burgeoning oil production is on an unstoppable trajectory to transform the nation economically and socially. As the nation expects four quarterly royalty payments totaling $225.2 million in 2023, one should note that this is only a small part of the revenues. In actuality, the vast majority will be profit...

A decade ago, when the Adrienne Arsht Latin American Center at the Atlantic Council opened its doors, only a handful of Latin Americans had heard of the Atlantic Council. “Now, we’ve become a well known entity in many countries across the region,” said the Director of the Center, Jason Marczak...

Over the last two decades, levels of gross domestic product (GDP) per capita have converged across OECD economies, driven in large part by higher growth in lower income economies. At the same time, however, disparities in average incomes across regions has grown in over half of 27 OECD countries with...