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Senior Analyst, Investment & Business
Isabella Conti tracks investment flows and corporate strategies within the Latin American market. She evaluates the impact of multinational presence on regional industrial growth.
isabella.conti@latamreport.orgFrom Argentine YouTuber to Mexican bank acquisition, from Colombian food group to Peruvian mining equipment innovation, the Latin American economy is showing new trends of diversification, capital deepening, and industrial upgrading.
Latin America is becoming the most dynamic region for global outbound tourism. A younger, more digital, and experience-driven traveler base is driving consumption upgrades. Caribbean destinations need to seize these opportunities, but with differentiated strategies. This article analyzes the driving forces behind Latin American outbound tourism, its impact on the global travel market, and trends for the next five years.
This article analyzes the leading position of Canadian companies in mining investments in Mexico, as well as the expansion constraints faced by U.S. companies due to policy restrictions, and explores the impact of this landscape on the North American mining supply chain and regional economy.
Governments around the world are shifting from being mining bystanders to proactive strategists in securing critical mineral supply chains. The United States is increasing investments in Latin America, India has launched a national mission, African countries are raising tax rates, and Kazakhstan is pursuing industrial upgrades. Latin America, as a core production region for lithium, copper, and rare earths, is becoming a focal point of great power competition, and its resource advantages are reshaping the regional economic landscape.
Mexican fintech company Clip launches Mi Clip digital wallet, in partnership with Ant International, Mastercard, and Televisa-Univision, aiming to drive the transformation of Mexico's cash economy towards digital payments and promote financial inclusion.
Analyzing the implications of Mozambique's mining nationalization bill for trends in Latin American resource policies, and exploring how the wave of resource control in countries such as Chile, Mexico, and Bolivia is reshaping global capital flows and commodity patterns.
After Maduro's departure, Venezuela introduced a new mining law aiming to open up to foreign investment, but its mining revival faces deep-seated challenges such as illegal mining, institutional corruption, and infrastructure collapse. This is both a microcosm of the ebbing of Latin American resource nationalism and a reflection of the region's repositioning in the critical mineral supply chain.
Brazil’s deepening cooperation with the United States around critical mineral supply chains reflects the new position of Latin American resource-rich countries in the energy transition and supply chain reconfiguration. For Brazil, the challenge is not merely to expand extraction, but to leverage financing, mergers and acquisitions, and international partnerships to turn rare earths, lithium, nickel, copper, and niobium into higher-level industrial and capital advantages.