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Ecuadorian Capital's New Airport Has Latin America's Longest Runway : Ecuadorian Capital's New Airport Has Latin America's Longest Runway. QUITO – The new $630 million airport in the Ecuadorian capital has the longest runway in Latin America , officials said. The inauguration of the new Quito airport on Tuesday marked the ... Latin American Herald Tribune

Latin America: The New Frontier for High Risk, High Reward Investors : Move over, China. Latin America is the new market investors are eager to break into. In 2012, investment by private equity and venture capitalists in Latin America reached a five-year high. New data analysis released by the Latin American Private ...

Latin America spearheads the global privatisation of education - The new report Privatisation of Education in Latin America: Mapping policies, trends and trajectories reveals that in recent decades, Latin America has been the region with the steadiest growth in the privatisation of education. The region is notable not only for having the highest rate of enrolment in private primary education in the world, but also for showing the most consistent growth in private provision. This also applies at the secondary school level, for which Latin America is tied with Sub-Saharan Africa for the region with the highest private enrolment.

In Latin America , the New China Is Here to Stay - This year, Venezuela’s valentine was China. On February 14, the Asian giant pledged to invest $2.7 billion across 22 projects in the country. China’s investments and loans in exchange for Venezuelan oil account for one of the growing links with Latin America, where China has been the region’s main lender for at least five years, according to Angel Melguizo. "It’s good news, first because Latin America is a region that saves very little," the head of the Latin American and Caribbean Unit in the OECD’s Development Center tells AS/COA Online’s Elizabeth Gonzalez in this podcast episode. China’s loans have helped stabilize the region’s economic slowdown, a sign that China is here to stay, according to Melguizo.

Costa Rica is New Latin America Leader in Innovation According to the Global Innovation Index of 2013, Costa Rica has taken the 39th place on the global innovation ranking and it's the first country in Latin America to appear in the list. The study was published by INSEAD  ...

Edinburgh University opens new Latin America office in Brazil : On Monday, the body said the move was part of its "established tradition of academic interaction in Latin America in a number of fields, including energy, public health, economics and the preservation of delicate ecosystems". As part of the move ... Español | Las Américas | Português | America | Stigmabase | eGAYlity

New Unregulated Drugs On The Rise In Latin America, UN Report States : The use of traditional drugs has stabilized throughout the U.S. and Latin America , while consumption of “new psychoactive substances” has risen in the region, a new report from the United Nations stated. New psychoactive substances (NPS), which include  ...

New areas of growth in Latin America : The most recent forecasts by international organizations such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) have identified new areas of growth in Latin America . Countries such as  ...

Latin America's new political power couple takes the reins in Venezuela after ... And Nicolas Maduro and Cilia Flores, both 50, are now the most powerful political couple in Latin America after he was sworn in as acting president of Venezuela late on Friday evening - under the proud gaze of the new first lady, who also happens to be ...

The New Latin America  - [Many Latin American countries have very high savings rates. As consumers feel more confident, they reduce their saving and increase consumption.] Each of  ...

President Correa Outlines Vision for New Latin America  - Second, the bloc would target education , “the most important step toward development.” He noted that at present, Latin America had none of the ...

Cocoa Has New Latin America King as Ecuador Beats Brazil  -  Cocoa Has New Latin America King as Ecuador Beats Brazil ... tons as the country is poised to become the world's fourth-biggest producer by 2015,  ...

Further Drop In Latin America Average Regional Urban Unemployment, Says ... : In the new issue of the joint publication "The employment situation in Latin America and the Caribbean", the two institutions indicate that 3.5% economic growth expected for the region in 2013 should maintain the positive trends in labour indicators. Otros geolocalizaciones

Latin America, the new land of opportunity : Latin America has not only produced a number of expanding multi-national corporations in the last two decades—the so called multi-Latinas—but it has also become an attractive booming market due to its growth potential. Through market integration ... VOXXI

Latin America rings in new year with colorful undies -  That's just one of many colorful New Year's rituals in Latin America , where ... In many countries , revelers ring in the new year by walking around the ...

11 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have reduced maternal mortality, new UN data ...  - A new United Nations report shows that 11 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have made significant progress in reducing deaths from pregnancy-related causes since 1990. However no country in the region is on track to meet the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of reducing maternal mortality 75% by 2015.

The Odebrecht Octopus: One of Latin America's greatest scandals - A local corruption case involving a multinational construction firm from Brazil, has turned into one of the largest scandals that Latin America has ever witnessed. Recent developments shed light on the magnitude of the affair, reaching presidents, public companies, private corporations and politicians. The Odebrecht affair reappeared on the public scene in Peru, as its former President Alejandro Toledo was accused of favoring the Brazilian company in public tenders during his administration. Toledo was Peru’s President from 2001 to 2006. He initiated a new era of hopes following a decade of government led by hard-liner Alberto Fujimori.

World's richest man secures 2014-16 Olympic TV rights in Latin America Elias Ayub told the Mexican newspaper Reforma that the deal gives America Movil the possibility of re-selling the rights in Latin America and of broadcasting the games on a new television channel in Mexico if Slim's Telmex company gets the rights to it ...

The 'Shock Doctrine' Returns To Latin America - This is the new reality that Brazil has faced following the impeachment and ouster of the democratically-elected Dilma Rousseff in August of 2016 on charges of corruption and her replacement by vice-president Michel Temer, a favorite of Washington. This is also a new reality that has been met by widespread disapproval, occasional large-scale protests, and a new economic uncertainty for a country which, just a few years ago, was seen as an up-and-coming economic powerhouse, along with the rest of the BRICS, the bloc composed of emerging economies of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. This optimism has been quickly supplanted by an increasingly volatile social situation in Brazil and great pessimism for the future.

Latin America: start of three new editions of the FIFA/CIES Programme : Furthermore, their profiles are excellent and perfectly suited to the objectives of the Programme in Latin America , as elsewhere in the other regions where the FIFA/CIES International University Network is active. Thus, the Universidad Catolica ... Fifa.com