'Quid Pro Quo for Venezuela'
Columnist Thomas Manning
FEATURE STORIES
The WTO could be dancing its last tango, strictly speaking

Not far from Buenos Aires, on the mouth of the River Plate lies the small Uruguayan seaside town of Punta del Este. It was here in 1986 that diplomats from around the world arrived to launch a new round of trade talks. The Uruguay Round took seven years to complete and resulted in the creation of the World Trade Organisation. It was the last trade round to be successfully concluded; these days deals tend to be cut bilaterally or between groups of like-minded nations. A quarter of a century ago the WTO was seen as the future. Today it could be dancing its last tango. That’s how much things have changed...

The Guardian
Brazil future unclear amid opposing ideologies of ministers

RIO DE JANEIRO - With his inauguration just weeks away, Brazilian President-elect Jair Bolsonaro is assembling a Cabinet of ministers with starkly different views on key issues like climate change, the economy and China. Bolsonaro has appointed a neoliberal finance minister, a foreign minister who describes globalization as "an anti-human and anti-Christian system," supporters and critics of China's role in the region and a justice minister who is arguably the world's most renowned corruption fighter...

The News & Observer
'Demented Reef Fish'
Columnist Thomas Manning
DIPLOMATIC, TRADE & CULTURAL NEWS
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His Excellency Sebastian Pinera, the President of Chile received a State Welcome at Government House Auckland on 19 November, 2018. President Pinera pictured above with the Governor General of New Zealand, HE Rt Hon Dame Patsy Reddy

President Sebastian Pinera held bilateral talks with NZ Prime Minister Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern at Government House in Auckland during his State visit to New Zealand

Cuban Ambassador HE Mario Alzugaray Rodriguez & Señora Elizabeth Vela Jaime welcome NZ Deputy Prime Minister & Foreign Minister Rt Hon Winston Peters to the Cuban National Day Reception in Wellington on 6 December 2018

​The Latin American Ambassadors in New Zealand held a farewell at the Argentine Residence for departing Mexican Ambassador HE Jose Gerardo Traslosheros Hernandez and Señora Paulina Reyes Berlanga (centre of photo)

GTSA News Blog: Buenos Aires: Palacio Álzaga Unzué: The most luxurious wedding gift in Argentina’s history

On May 8th, 1916, there was a large party in Buenos Aires. Two offspring of the aristocracy, Félix Saturnino de Álzaga Unzué, 31, and Elena Peña Unzué, 24, were married with all pomp and ceremony in the Church of St. Augustine.
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As corresponding to a wedding of that rank, the couple received innumerable gifts. But nothing was like the gift of the groom that he gave to his new wife: a superb palace a few meters from the exclusive Avenue Alvear, in the neighborhood of Retiro, which to this day still surprises many by its noble Porte.

The contrast between the red of the brick and the grey of the stone, in the English academic style; The Corinthian columns that Lord at the main entrance of Cerrito Street; The ornamentation reloaded from the Frontis, with vegetal elements, shields, and figureheads; The Apizarrado ceiling and its elegant attics. Everything on the facade of the building refers to abundance and ostentation....
New Broom in Mexico is Good News for New Zealand
 Columnist; Thomas Manning

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2018 Latin American Business Conference - Size Matters and Other Macroeconomics

When it comes to economic advancement, size matters. Professor Sebastian Edwards offers the conference’s introductory remarks with the macroeconomics of Latin America, using Chile as a benchmark for productivity and progress. 
Argentum

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The spectacular show Argentina presented in the incomprable Teatro Colon for the leaders of the G20, diplomats and business leaders
Will Trump pressure push NZ petrol prices lower?


​​A weekly New Zealand Herald  Videocast  about the NZ economy by Business Editor Liam Dann & Guests. 
 Muy Simpatico, Mr Tabuteau
 Columnist; Thomas Manning
LATIN AMERICAN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
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Growth remains lackluster in the third quarter amid conflicting dynamics

​December 5, 2018 - A preliminary estimate revealed that growth in the Latin American economy was unchanged in the third quarter, as uneven dynamics across economies kept activity moderate. FocusEconomics estimates that regional GDP growth (excluding Venezuela) came in at 1.6% year-on-year, matching the second quarter’s reading and one of the worst results seen in the past year and a half. A less favorable external backdrop and political noise likely held back growth, despite an improving labor market...
  

Mexico Airport: Default, Investor Confidence Loss

Forget the honeymoon period normally granted to new presidents. Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador hasn’t even assumed Mexico’s presidency yet and has already ruined his relationship with local and foreign investors.
This week he announced he was cancelling the new, $13 billion airport being built in Mexico City – a move made despite warnings not to do so from technical experts, the local business community, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) and even the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)...
Latin America trade trifecta in sight for New Zealand
Columnist; Thomas Manning

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CUBA IN NEW ZEALAND

  1. Embassy of Cuba supports book by Latin American women in New Zealand
  2. In 2019 Cuba celebrates 20 years of diplomatic relations with Aotearoa New Zealand. To commemorate this event, the Cuban Embassy is partnering with Havana Coffee Works to launch a Cuba Photo Contest.
  3. ​On October 22, 2018. Cuban Third Secretary Saimin Fis Abad paid a visit to the city of Blackball, birthplace of the Labor Party in New Zealand.
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Transpolar flight grows NZ trade opportunities in Latin America
Columnist; Thomas Manning

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