Expert Q&A: Taking Stock of Paraguay’s Logistics Landscape
An interview with Raúl Valdez, president of the Paraguayan Chamber of Oilseed and Grain Processors (CAPPRO) and vice president of the Paraguayan Center of River and Maritime Ship Operators (CAFyM)
Paraguay’s Move from the Periphery
Paraguay has an opportunity to channel its momentum into greater productivity and lasting development. This starts with enabling infrastructure, institutional reforms, and external partnerships capable of sustaining successive waves of investment.
How Middle-Income LAC Countries Can Contribute to a New Democratic Prosperity Corridor
Strong democracies, civic engagement, and infrastructure investment are the keys for middle-income LAC countries to facilitate sustainable development.
Colombia Is (Finally) Getting on the Trains Train
Colombia must leverage both international markets and geopolitics to complete its ambitious railway plan.
With eye toward countering Chinese Belt and Road, Biden administration lays groundwork for infrastructure program in Latin America
More than seven years after President of China Xi Jinping first announced the Belt and Road—the People’s Republic’s signature twenty-first century foreign policy agenda—the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden announced this week that the White House would send a delegation of officials to Latin America to scout opportunities for possible infrastructure development projects to counter those of China.
Has anything changed since French Guiana’s 2017 social upheaval?
Four years since social unrest gripped French Guiana, the territory has seen marginal improvements; nevertheless, many of the structural problems of the French département persist.
5G geopolitics: cybersecurity and Brazil’s trade-off
Brazil faces pressure from both the U.S. and China as it decides whether to accept the alluring, but potentially risky, opportunity to build out its national 5G technology with Huawei, a major industry provider of the service.
Guyana and the next economic wave
Guyana’s economy is projected to grow by 26 percent in 2020, but the country will need more than just money alone to affect much needed changes in governance frameworks, inhuman capital, and transparency.
Guyana: “Oil don’t spoil,” but …
Guyana’s recent oil windfall has been well-documented, but successfully harnessing the opportunity it brings will require a combination of transparency, institutional management, and infrastructure changes.
Post COVID-19: A call for the right to the Latin American city
Latin America has the unique opportunity to use the COVID-19 pandemic to reshape its cities into more equitable communities. How they do this will be imperative for the future of the region.