Latin America improves its financial inclusion for the 4th year

The report measures three fundamental variables: access, use and perceived quality of financial instruments and institutions. Mobile payment applications have become the main driver of ...

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Panama sees 2.1% growth in first half of 2024

The Monthly Index of Economic Activity (Imae) reports a cumulative growth until the first half of the year of 2.12%. The Monthly Economic Activity Index ...

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Argentina isolates freighter for case suspected of monkey’s smallpox

The ship comes from Santos city, southeastern Brazil. Argentine health authorities ordered the isolation on the Paraná River of a freight ship from Brazil after ...

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New luxury JW Marriott hotel on pace to break ground in San Salvador in 2025

The Poma Group signed the agreement for the development of the hotel, which will have 186 rooms. The hotel brand JW Marriott will have a ...

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Over 700 U.S. companies have employed Salvadorans on temporary visas

30 per cent of the beneficiaries received the temporary employment visa in 2024. More than 700 U.S. companies have employed just over 13,000 Salvadorans since ...

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Crime and violence cost 3.5% of GDP in Latin America, says IDB president

Both problems “increase the cost of doing business, weaken the rule of law and cost us 3.5 percent of the annual regional GDP,” Ilan Goldfajn ...

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Salvadoran cocoa exports break record for the last three decades

The BCR reports that exports of cocoa and derived products grew by 20.8 % in the first semester. Salvadoran cocoa exports reached a record number ...

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Four out of 7 capacitors in the world are made in El Salvador

So far in 2024, El Salvador has exported $77.6 million in capacitors manufactured by Kyocera AVX. The Salvadoran Association of Industrialists (ASI) said Tuesday that ...

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El Salvador’s international trade shows benefited more than 50 small entrepreneurs

The fairs benefited more than 50 micro, small and medium-sized Salvadoran entrepreneurs, according to the government. The Salvadoran entrepreneurs’ fairs held in different parts of ...

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Venezuelans in Panama marched against electoral ‘fraud’

Venezuelans met, within the framework of the global call made by the main opposition alliance. Hundreds of Venezuelans demonstrated peacefully this Saturday in the Panamanian ...

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