Mexico's recently inaugurated President Claudia Sheinbaum aims to chart a delicate path forward, inventing necessary new policies while preserving the political legacy of her mentor, AMLO.  Julio Portales and Roberto Salinas together bring...

Latin America's demographic shift is about to accelerate as its elderly population leads all segments with double digit annual growth.  The transformative adoption of new and often disruptive technology is rapidly changing competitive land...

Airbus is now the world's largest aeronautical manufacturer, in part thanks to its ability to penetrate aviation markets around the world, including Latin America. The region's airlines have gone through their fair share of tumult but even grea...

The election of Claudia Sheinbaum delivered several surprises.  One of the less welcome surprises from the investor's point of view was the creation of a super majority in the Chamber of Deputies and 2 seats shy of a super majority in the ...

The election of Gustavo Petro in 2022 was unsettling to many Colombians.  After naming a somewhat centrist cabinet, his lack of quick wins led Petro to surround himself with loyal sycophants and assume a more rigid stance.  The politi...

Mexico realized an historic election on June 2nd, 2024, choosing its first female President.  Far more polemic is the fact that the Morena party's landslide victory delivers a 30-day window of opportunity to outgoing President AMLO to radi...

Organized crime in Mexico today includes highly sophisticated groups who have effectively penetrated the supply chains of Mexico's burgeoning exports.  They have extorted their way into ownership of the agri-food sector and they regularly ...

Renewable energy holds much hope for investors in Latin America. The region is endowed with some of best solar and wind energy generation assets in the world.  Electricity demand is growing.  The region's private sector and voting pub...

David Price leads the 3rd generation of a family that invented the membership warehouse club, PriceClub (now known as Costco).  As Chief Transformation Officer, David helps lead the family's foray into LAC markets, under the brand PriceSma...

En 2021, en medio de COVID, Jorge Noguera se alejó de la cima de su carrera corporativa para perseguir sus aspiraciones de servir como miembro de la junta directiva y asesor corporativo. La transición ha sido exitosa pero también desafiante. Co...

Reading Alejandro McCormack's CV will make your head spin.  Since earning an Bachelor's degree at UT Austin in 2013, Alejandro has earned two graduate degrees, worked for merchant banks in Boston and London and helped lead five different f...

Diego Rodriguez leads the logistics practice at AMI. After a decade in that role, he has studied every major market and logistics segment in Latin America. Each year, he predicts the opportunities and risks ahead for the logistics industry oper...

Sam Logan has spent three decades studying OCGs (Organized Criminal Groups) in Latin America in order to understand how they are structured, how they operate, how and why they expand, and how they differentiate themselves.  His understandi...

Aurelio Oliveira leads the Latin American operations of the world’s largest private sector renewable energy producer, Enel.  After a period of much hype and cheap capital poured into renewables, today’s surviving renewable players must bal...

Adam Blanco spent nearly two decades inside Russia working for the US State Department, US AID, Visa International and Russia’s leading auto importer.  Since returning to the US, he has built a name for himself as very well-informed Russia...

Después de 15 años de una carrera muy exitosa al frente de la agencia de marketing digital más grande de Guatemala, Philip Wilson quería más. Le encantaba su trabajo pero faltaba algo. Entonces decidió abordar uno de los problemas más important...

Eduardo Coello leads a large, complex and constantly evolving business — the Latin America and Caribbean division of Visa, the world’s 11th largest company.  How did a mechanical engineer working in the factory operations of Proctor & ...

Fernando Donayre runs a $600M Latin America equities fund that is unlike any in the industry.  Not only does Inca Investments (his firm) enter and exit at times different from the rest of the herd, they also hold onto equities, on average,...

Alberto Bernal ha llevado una distinguida carrera como uno de los analistas económicos más destacados de América Latina, trabajando en Bogotá, Miami, Nueva York y Londres. Su colorido enfoque narrativo para explicar los ritmos económicos únicos...

Dr. Robert-Evan Ellis is the pre-eminent scholar on the subject of China-Latin American geo-political and commercial engagement.  Over the last 15 years, Dr. Ellis has published five books and dozens of articles on the broad, complex and e...

Matthew Griffin advises governments (US, UAE, UK) and global corporations (Samsung, Disney, UBS, Bloomberg, Assurant, Dentons, among others) on the future.  His job is to paint a picture, or series of scenarios of what his client’s jurisdi...

Roberto Salinas has been a highly visible and influential analyst and commentator of Mexican politics and economy since the onset of the NAFTA in 1994.  So who better to turn to in order to understand the sudden rise of the Morena party an...

Omnicom Media Group may be the largest company that you’ve never heard of.  With $13bn in annual revenue and over 60,000 employees worldwide, OMG is a behemoth in the world of advertising, media buying and marketing.  Few industries h...

Ambassador Guillermo Rishchynski recently capped a 37-year diplomatic career with ambassadorial posts in Brasilia, Bogotá, Mexico City and the UN (New York) before serving as Executive Director at the IDB in Washington.  Few can claim a ca...

Capital intensive projects in Latin America are inherently polemic.  To come to fruition, these economically vital investments must overcome political interference, local community angst, competing economic interests, organized crime threa...