Report: Fiscal lessons Cuba could learn from Costa Rica
December 2, 2014
WASHINGTON — Cuba, whose halting reforms have failed to energize the island’s stagnant, centralized economy, may have a thing or two to learn from Costa Rica — which over the last 30 years has made enormous strides in slashing poverty, promoting trade and luring foreign direct investment.
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Chile honors Haitian politician who spent exile years in Puerto Rico
November 11, 2014
WASHINGTON — Several hundred people packed the Chilean ambassador’s residence Thursday night to celebrate as Haitian politician Gérard R. Latortue received Chile’s highest honor for foreign nationals, the prestigious “Órden al Mérito.”
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Urban planner offers tough talk on Cuba’s economic prospects
November 10, 2014
When Miguel Coyula discusses Cuba’s struggling economy, he sounds more like a Miami-based critic of the Castro regime than a retired Cuban official visiting the United States on a lecture tour, then going back home to Havana.
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Analysts debate Puerto Rico debt crisis at Brookings seminar
November 7, 2014
WASHINGTON — More than 100 people crammed into a conference room at one of Washington’s most prestigious think tanks Thursday to hear three experts dissect what exactly caused Puerto Rico’s worsening debt crisis and how to fix it.
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Puerto Rico debt crisis focus of Brookings panel
November 4, 2014
On Nov. 6, the Brookings Institution — one of Washington’s most prestigious think tanks — will delve into the origins of Puerto Rico’s $73 billion debt crisis and what can be done to nurse the island’s ailing economy back to health.
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Congress could nix Export-Import Bank by month’s end
September 15, 2014
WASHINGTON — What do the World War II-era Burma Road, the 30,000-mile-long Pan-American Highway linking Alaska to Argentina, a $120 million aluminum smelter in Ghana, and a $3 billion liquefied natural gas project in Papua New Guinea have in common?
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Economic lessons Puerto Rico can learn from Taiwan
August 11, 2014
TAIPEI — Both are relatively tiny islands that have complicated relationships with the giant superpowers that claim them. Both use tax incentives to lure U.S. factories to their shores — despite the absence of full-fledged embassies in Washington — and the political status of both islands is a never-ending source of debate among local voters.
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San Juan cargo volumes fall 10.8% YOY in FY13
August 7, 2014
The Port of San Juan ranked 11th among U.S. ports in containerized cargo in 2013, but the same organization that compiled that listing also shows San Juan as suffering one of the sharpest drops in traffic from the year before.
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Panel warns of Caribbean’s dependence on Petrocaribe
July 31, 2014
With the Venezuelan economy worsening and residents of Caracas unable to buy diapers or even toilet paper due to foreign-exchange shortages, how much longer will Venezuela be able to subsidize cheap oil for its political allies throughout the Caribbean and Central America.
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Anguilla plans new int’l airport to lure direct flights
July 7, 2014
NEW YORK — Anguilla, a British colony known for its high-end resorts and wealthy clientele, is sending out feelers for a new international airport aimed at attracting nonstop flights from the United States, Europe and elsewhere.
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St. Maarten PM: Tourism is key to economy
July 3, 2014
It’s been nearly four years since Oct. 10, 2010 — the day the Netherlands Antilles was officially dissolved, allowing the Dutch-speaking islands in the confederation to go their own separate ways.
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Diplomats in Wash. tout emerging ‘Pumas of the Pacific’
May 1, 2014
WASHINGTON — Move over, Asian tigers. It looks like the four so-called “Pacific Pumas” — Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru — have become the latest darlings of the investor crowd.
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Panama’s diplomatic row with Venezuela indicative of growing presence on world stage
April 28, 2014
WASHINGTON — One year after Nicolás Maduro’s election as president of Venezuela — in a voting process the opposition claims was rigged and illegal — the hand-picked successor to the late populist Hugo Chávez faces a country in chaos.
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World Bank: ‘Long way to go’ to social equality in LatAm
April 25, 2014
WASHINGTON — After Dr. Jim Yong Kim graduated from college in 1993, his first trip to Washington was to join a noisy protest against the World Bank.
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Grenada promotes ‘sustainability’ amid climate change
April 14, 2014
WASHINGTON — The leader of one of the Western Hemisphere’s tiniest nations came to the capital of its most powerful on Friday — sounding the alarm on climate change and urging U.S. investment in the Caribbean’s emerging “green economy.”
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