A Criminal Court in Santiago ordered Chilean vineyard Vinedo Errazuriz Ovalle to remove its wines from the country's supermarkets after competitor Vinas Errazuriz filed a complaint stating the company was trying to confuse consumers and did not have rights to use the Errazuriz brand.
Beverages - Brief Article
A prosecutor from the Civil District of Sao Lourenco in Brazil has filed a lawsuit against Nestle claiming the Swiss food company illegally extracted mineral water from the city.
Beverages - Brief Article
Aeromexico is planning to launch six flights from Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport to Mexico City beginning on July 7th.
Florida to Mexico - Brief Article
AirGov.
Out Of The Box - Temporary Argentine head-of-state Eduardo Duhalde creates state-run airline - Brief Article
Alcoa.
Regional - Latin American PET unit sold to Amcor - Brief Article
Alianza Summa.
Colombia - Brief Article
Alstom Power.
Venezuela - Brief Article
Anglogold.
Brazil - Brief Article
Argentina dodged a class-action suit presented in New York by foreign bondholders after a U.S. Federal Court denied their request to recover US$60 million in deposits lost when the South American country defaulted.
Banking - Brief Article
Argentina will receive US$125 million in rapid financing from the Inter-American Development Bank, as part of a program to provide greater stability in the insurance sector.
Argentina - Brief Article
Argentina will restart a public spending plan of US$2.8 billion in 2003.
Argentina - Brief Article
Atlanta, Georgia: the gateway to the Americas'.
Focus On: Special Advertising Feature - City chosen as home of Free Trade Area of the Americas Secretariat - Advertisement
Baja California dreaming: with natural gas running short, U.S. energy companies turn to Baja California to power up supply.
Trade Lanes
Banco Do Brasil.
Brazil - Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Economico e Social - Brief Article
Banco Itau.
Brazil - Bond issuance - Brief Article
Banco Santander Central Hispano.
Regional - Coutts Group Latin American units acquired - Brief Article
Banco Sudameris Argentina.
Argentina - Merger with Banco Patagonia - Brief Article
Bench warmers: their heart is in the game, but even Mexico's top baseball squad suffers for its sport.
Sports - Mexico's most successful baseball team, the Diablos Rojos
Bottoms up.
The Giant 24 - Interview
Building a lean machine.
Editor's Note - Brief Article
Caves, condos and a carrot? Mais oui ... French designer Philippe Starck and his backers have big plans for Latin America.
Executive Travel - French hotel designer Philippe Starck works on El Porteno in Buenos Aires
Chat line.
Trade Talk - Brief Article
Chile and the United States signed a free-trade agreement between the two countries in Miami.
Chile - Brief Article
CLAB 2003 to showcase the latest banking technology.
Special Advertising Feature
Come together.
Letters
Custom agents gone wild.
Out Of The Box - United States Bureau of Customs and Border Protection - Brief Article
Enersis Endesa Chile, Chilean units of Spanish energy giant Endesa, refinanced debt of US$1.6 billion and $743 million, respectively.
Chile - Brief Article
Every day higher sales: Wal-Mart wunderkind Walmex shows them how it's done in a down economy.
The Giant 24
Free trade now.
Letters - Letter to the Editor
Gas Natural Baja California.
Mexico - Brief Article
Green gold.
Colombia, search for emeralds - Brief Article
Grupo TMM, Latin America's largest multimodal transportation company, lost court protection against its creditors after a Mexican Civil Court judge overuled a previous injunction granting the transportation company a one-year grace period to meet its debt obligations.
Transportation - Brief Article
Hope meets reason: we see what's failing for the left in Latin America. How about what's working?
Trade Talk
Iberia is offering two additional flights to Mexico City and three to Buenos Aires from Madrid as part of its ongoing campaign to increase routes to Latin America.
Airlines - Brief Article
ING.
Mexico - ING Bank - Brief Article
Just one look ...
Letters - Letter to the Editor
Key indicators.
Latin America, trade index; exports, imports, statistics
Las Vegas Premium Outlets, the first upscale outlet mall in Las Vegas, will open in August.
2003 - Brief Article
Let them eat bolivars: as a referendum looms, Venezuelan importers wonder if they'll ever see another dollar.
Policy
Lockheed Martin.
Chile - Brief Article
Mexican President Vicente Fox announced a program to modernize the country's highway infrastructure with a US$455 million highway fund to support the initiative.
Mexico - Brief Article
Mexicana de Aviacion will offer a 5% discount.
Airline - Brief Article
Midterm review.
Panorama - Hugo Chavez - Brief Article
Minera Corona.
Peru - Brief Article
Monsanto.
Brazil - Brief Article
Not licked yet.
Trade Talk - Brief Article
Other titles of interest.
'Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America', 'La Jefa' - Book Review
Paper pact.
Panorama - Aracruz Celulose - Klabin - Stora Enso - Brief Article
Pay your taxes, kids.
Trade Talk - Brief Article
Peru impossible.
Trade Talk - Brief Article
Privatizations.
Latin America, transactions
Refinery expansion.
Panorama - Brief Article
Ruben Berta Foundation.
Brazil - Brief Article
Savia.
Mexico - Brief Article
Sempra Energy.
Mexico - Brief Article
Sky high fees.
Out Of The Box - Brief Article
Slow motion: as U.S. carriers expand alliances, Colombia's Alianza Summa says it can wait.
Executive Travel
Social engineering, again.
Book Review
Starwood, which operates Sheraton hotels, has opened or begun work on new hotels in Brazil and opened one in Panama.
Travel Hot Tips - Brief Article
The giant 24 foreign companies in Latin America.
The Ministry of Justice in Brazil is investigating allegations that U.S. power companies AES and Enron conspired to rig the auction of Brazil's electricity distributor Eletropaulo in 1998.
Energy - Brief Article
The starvation diet: Latin America's oil producers get no windfall from war and high prices. Their problems begin at home.
Oil & Gas
The world according to Nestor ...
Trade Talk - Brief Article
The World Bank.
Ecuador - Brief Article
Top docks.
Out Of The Box - Brief Article
Trade Calendar.
Trends - Calendar
Transalta.
Mexico - Brief Article
Trinidad and Tobago: a strategic location for investing in the Americas: regional hub bidding to host FTAA secretariat.
Special Advertising Feature - Free Trade Area of the Americas - Advertisement
Union Fenosa.
Mexico - Brief Article
Uruguay received approval from its bondholders to exchange approximately US$5 billion of its debt for bonds maturing at a later date and with a lower interest rate.
Uruguay - Brief Article
Welcome to our hard drive: looking for savings and new business, banks and retailers bring customers onto their networks.
Special Report - InFocus - Fleet Bank
Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome.
Executive Travel - Chile's travel industry picks up after recent, pending free trade agreements - Brief Article
Yamana Resources.
Brazil - Acquisition of copper-gold project from Mineracao Santa Elina - Brief Article
You wouldn't understand.
Trade Talk - Brief Article
2002 sales in US$ millions.
The Giant 24
