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Ill-fated Aerolineas Argentinas falls to earth.
The privatized flag carrier is losing more than a $1 million a day. SEPI, the Spanish government agency that took over the airline from state-owned Iberia, is looking for a buyer.

Domingo Cavallo takes over as economy minister of Argentina as the government struggles to rebuild credibility and stave off default. Cavallo’s magic seems to work and investors gradually begin to regain confidence in Argentina.

Latin America’s battered economies emerge from a
downturn, but are about to be swamped by recession
in the US.

In an active year for Latin American bank sales, it’s no surprise that Banco Santander Central Hispano’s $3.55 billion purchase of Banespa, the former São Paulo state bank, takes our […]

The development of the oilfields in the Campos Basin 80 kilometers off the coast of Rio de Janeiro State are crucial for Brazil to fulfill its longstanding ambition to become […]

Last August’s equity offering from Petrobras, Brazil’s national oil company, was a landmark event. It was the largest Latin American equity issue ever, and one of the largest anywhere in […]

The winner of the LatinFinance quasi-sovereign bond of the year is the €100 million three-year, fixed rate bond for the city of Buenos Aires, led by Chase Securities. “It was […]

Last year started out looking grim for Colombia. With an escalating internal conflict, deteriorating public finances and two downgrades from Standard&Poor’s, Colombia was “held hostage by US investors and desperate […]

Latin American companies were able to craft some innovative structured finance transactions last year despite the fact that many emerging markets deals were sidelined because of volatility in the international […]