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Now that free market reforms have failed to deliver widespread prosperity, the return of political instability, dormant in Latin America for most of the last decade, creates a new and unwelcome source of risk.

Several countires in Latin American adopt the US dollar in a last-ditch effort to stop inflation and economic instability.

Last year saw a burst of activity in Latin America’s new issues market after three slow years, with activity concentrated mainly in the region’s two largest and strongest economies – […]

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 […]