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​2020
15 March 2020 Edition - 'MIke Moore; A man for All Seasons'
1 March 2020 Edition - 'Could Pablo Escobar's escaped hippos help the environment in Colombia?'
15 February 2020 Edition - 'What's driving support for Peru's authoritarian President?'
1 February 2020 Edition - "Mexico may raffle its Presidential 787 Dreamliner'
15 January 2020 Edition - 'Uruguay is World's Best Investment Destination, Costa Rica Third'

​2019
15 December 2019 Edition - 'Neoliberal Denouement in Chile' - Thomas Manning, EMA BusinessPlus Magazine Latin America Columnist
1 December 2019 Edition - '2019 has been a difficult year for Latin America'
15 November 2019 Edition - Bolivian President Evo Morales resigns flys to asylum in Mexico
1 November 2019 Edition - 'Colombian Senator Claudia López elected first female mayor of Bogota'
15 October 2019 Edition - 'Flight of the Phoenix' - Cristina Kirchner rises from the ashes of Neoliberalism - EMA BusinessPlus Magazine, Thomas Manning Columnist
1 October 2019 Edition - Cuban Ambassador pays Farewell Visit to NZ Governor General
15 September Edition - 'Giant Gizmo' Stallion Sold to Panamanian Stud Farm'
1 September 2019 - 'New Zealand offers help to Brazil for Amazon rainforest fires'
15 August 2019 - 'Simón Bolívar’s legacy' - EMA BusinessPlus Magazine, Thomas Manning Columnist
1 August 2019 - Exclusive Interview with Chilean Ambassador HE Rodrigo Espinosa Marty
15 July 2019 - 'South America's Unlikely New Economic Hope: Paraguay'
1 July 2019 - 20 Years in the Making - Mercosur and European Union Free Trade Agreement
15 June 2019 - 'Black Gold Bonanza for Guyana' - EMA BusinessPlus Magazine Columnist Thomas Manning
1 June 2019 - 'Brazil to Allow Foreign Airlines to Fly Domestic Routes'
15 May 2019 - Two more seasons of Mexican 'House of Flowers' confirmed by Netflix'
1 May 2019 - Air New Zealand South American Marketing & Communications Director Honoured in Argentina....
15 April 2019 - 'Crouching Tiger' Latin America in China's sights; EMA BusinessPlus Magazine Columnist Thomas Manning
1 April 2019 - 'New Zealand and the Loss of Innocence'; Buenos Aires Times
15 March 2019 - 'Understanding the Colombian Emerald Mining Sector'
1 March 2019 - Mexico’s ‘Mayan Train’ Is Bound for Controversy
15 February 2019 - 'Brazil's Messiah' - EMA BusinessPlus Magazine Columnist Thomas Manning
1 February 2019 - NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters says 'Venezuela must decide its future through free and fair elections'
15 January 19 - Why Electric Vehicles Are Gathering Speed in Latin America

2018
15 December 2018 - "Industrial Hemp: Sustainable Economic Development for Caribbean?"
1 December 2018 - NZ & Peru Strengten Ties with Air Services Agreement
15 November 18 - Panama: How a country of chaos became a bridge across the Americas
1 November 2018 - Ultra Right Wing Jair Bolsonaro wins Brazil Presidency by Large Margin
15 October 2018 - 'Demented Reef Fish' - Foreign investment markets seek safe haven in US bonds causing massive devaluation in Argentina
1 October 2018 - Fonterra's milk payments in Chile spawn breakaway co-op plan
15 September 2018 - Argentina's currency woes deepen crisis
1 September 2018 - NZ Public Company Vista's profit climbs on Mexican Cinema Acquisition
15 August 2918 - Costa Rica's Wellness Tourism sector gets a boost
1 August 2018 - Cristina Kirchner will run for President of Argentina in 2019
15 July 2018 - Venezuela's latest desperate plan
1 July 2018 - AMLO Sweeps to Mexican Presidency in Historic Landslide
15 June 2018 - 'Muy Simpatico, Mr Tabuteau' - BusinessPlus Magazine Columnist Thomas Manning's Interview with Fletcher Tabuteau, Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs
1 June 2018 - Chile central bank won't overreact to peso weakness: governor
15 May 2018 - Venezuela Inflation 13,000 %
1 May 2018 - Cuba's new President takes Office
15 April 2018 - US relations with Latin America have soured
1 April 2018 - NZ's first resident Ambassador in Colombia H.E. Lucy Duncan presents her credentials to President Manuel Santos
15 March 2018 - ​Mexico's cinema powerhouse: 'The Three Amigos' who have swept the Oscars; the latest with 'The Shape of Water'
1 March 2018 - Galapagos Islands fights temptation of lucrative mass tourism

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LATIN AMERICAN TRADE, POLITICAL & CULTURAL COMMENTARY
Columns by THOMAS MANNING

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February 2020
December 2019
The Weight of Numbers

​Financial index and rating services company Standard & Poor (S&P), predict the Latin American GDP will grow less than 2% in 2020 because of investment uncertainty arising from volatile social and political instability.....
​Neoliberal denouement in Chile

Free trade, minimal taxation and government spending coupled with the privatisation of public assets and services have all been defining features of the Chilean economy since the mid-1970s....
Crouching Tiger

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The Great Wall of China is purportedly the largest cemetery on earth, as it entombs the many millions of forced labourers and prisoners who were pitilessly worked to death during the Wall’s construction...
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Black Gold Bonanza for Guyana


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​The discovery of enormous oil fields in Guyana’s coastal waters will make Guyana the richest nation in South America over the next decade according to the World Bank...
​Simón Bolívar’s legacy



​To do business in Latin America often means having to contend with protectionist trade policies, and why this is so has been unexpectedly answered in an unlikely quarter....
Flight of the Phoenix - Cristina Kirchner rises from the ashes of neoliberalism

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It is often said that politics is theatre. This has been especially true during the past four years in Argentina, which have been a high-stakes melodrama along Kafkaesque lines, redolent with existential anxiety, alienation and absurdity.​....

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Brazil's new Messiah


​Jair Messias Bolsonaro (whose middle name means Messiah), an ultra-conservative who openly admires Brazil’s last military dictatorship is the new President of Brazil. He  has pledged to clamp-down hard on crime, political correctness, indigenous & minority rights...
Quid Pro Quo


​Venezuela was once Latin America’s most prosperous nation thanks to the largest petroleum reserves in the world and was until 2015, New Zealand’s biggest export market in Latin America...
Demented Reef Fish


​Former NZ Prime Minister David Lange aptly likened the behaviour of investment markets to “demented reef fish”, whose skittish behaviour is driven by a combination of greed, fear and panic...​
New Broom in Mexico Good News for NZ

In Mexico, left-wing politician Andrés Manuel López Obrador (known by his initials AMLO) has won the presidency in a landslide, with the highest number of votes in Mexican history...
Muy Simpatico, Mr Tabuteau


The NZ Government has appointed Fetcher Tabuteau, as Parliamentary Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs, to strengthen NZ’s relationships with Latin American countries.

Latin American trade trifecta in sight for New Zealand

In horse racing parlance, the recently-signed CPTPP, is the first leg of a trade trifecta which will enable New Zealand to ramp-up its exports to Latin America.​..
Trump fire also risks Latin American fury
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Latin American nations have borne the brunt of US President Donald Trump’s pejorative rhetoric. In addition, his protectionist ambitions undermine the region’s prospects and economic equilibrium.....
Outlook Improving for Latin America

Effective steps are finally being taken to eradicate the scourge of entrenched corruption that has bedeviled Latin America for centuries....


Transpolar flight grows NZ trade opportunities in Latin America


​Airline services strengthen New Zealand’s ability to engage with its key trading partners, helping build people-to-people connections and understanding of foreign business practice and culture....
Fake News

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​When it comes to selling newspapers or dominating TV ratings. the media’s rule of thumb is “If it bleeds, it leads”, and reporting on Latin America is no exception to the rule...
Buying Brazilian

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The Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) is considering buying a Brazilian-made aircraft, in a departure from traditional procurement practice...
El Dorado Calling

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Arriviste United States President Donald Trump’s incorrigible nationalism and xenophobia are morphing into trade protection and anti-immigrant policies...
Latin America’s annus horribilis

A malign convergence of low commodity prices, endemic corruption and legal perversion curtailed Latin America’s economic development in 2016...​
The Trump Effect in Latin America

After an extended period of left-wing populism Latin America has recently moved to the political centre and the pro-business leaders now in charge of the region’s biggest... 
Opportunities for NZ in Cuba

Lucrative business and investment opportunities are emerging in Cuba for New Zealand exports as a result of business and banking sector reforms....​
Argentina's Bright Prospects

While business media coverage of Latin America continues to be dominated by bad news, there is definitely another side to the story....
Steady Regional Growth Despite Unrest

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Political and economic news from Latin American has recently been dominated by drastic reforms in Argentina, chaos in Brazil...
Mixed Outlook for Latam Markets in 2016

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The NZ Government's "pivot" in its international trade policy toward Latin America last year was a timely strategy...
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Competition vs Cooperation
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“Competition is always a good thing, it forces us to do our best while a monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity,” the US writer Nancy Pearcey...
Sweet Sorrow

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The confusion I feel every time business or family commitments take me away from Buenos Aires is aptly typified by Shakespeare’s love-stricken Juliet’s words “parting is...
The Interface of Art & Power

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​Argentine art collector Eduardo Costantini has announced he will exhibit his recent purchase, Diego Rivera’s biggest ever canvas 'Dance in Tehuantepec', at his MALBA gallery...
A Slice of Heaven

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On the basis of English writer Virginia Woolf’s observation that “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well”...  
Weighed in the Balance - Helen Clark Campaign for UNSG
​Weighed in the Balance

Susana Malcorra’s nomination for appointment as United Nations Secretary-General is a win/win for the Macri government...
A Tale of Two Cities

“Walkers are the practitioners of a city, for a city is made to be walked. A city is a language, a repository of possibilities...       
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Business as usual

​The announcement by the Communications Ministry unveiling new rules to open up competition in the mobile telephone market is good news...
Bats out of Hell

Buenos Aires City’s bus services, the ubiquitous colectivos, in their coverage, frequency and even after recent fare hikes, low cost are without peer in Latin America...
Remembering the Brave ANZAC Troops

“They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.” These poignant words are from For the Fallen, a poem eulogizing....
The ex-ESMA Concentration Camp
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Attending the preview of Jayson McNamara’s powerful human rights documentary ‘Messenger on a White Horse’ on Saturday last was a visceral experience....

The First Shall be Last

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​Carrefour Express has just concluded a much-publicized competition in which a Christmas Hamper was won by a lucky shopper in every Express store throughout Argentina....
The Kiwi & the Condor; Mark II

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​As a New Zealander who has done business in Argentina since 1990 and as a past Vice-President of the Latin America New Zealand Business Council, it is an auspicious week....
Kiwi is Also a K Word

I am very well served by the Buenos Aires Herald for news but I have to admit I cannot resist reading NZ newspapers on-line to keep my finger on the pulse in those remote isles...
Hell on Earth

A portal to a hitherto unknown Tenth Circle of Hell has opened up in the section of Viamonte Street between Reconquista and Avenida Leandro N. Alem in Buenos Aires City...
A Whale of a Walrus

​Two new and rival alternate Argentine National Anthems have recently emerged. The first is a short and punchy operatic aria called “Blue Sin Techo”...
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Aerolineas Soars Again

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has many detractors and it’s fair to say her second term as president has been a rocky road with her “model” beset by...
The Kiwi & the Condor

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​The majestic Andean condor and the NZ kiwi are an unlikely pairing yet the canny little Kiwi has valiantly wooed the Condor and entered in its jealously-guarded nest...
High Flying, Adored?
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​Cabinet chief Jorge Capitanich was reported in the Herald on 27 May as praising Aerolíneas’ high standards of service and guaranteeing connectivity in Argentina...
Below the Belt Down Under

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​As a New Zealander I am long accustomed to our Aussie cousins appropriating NZ's cultural icons as their own...
Kiwi Delegation Seeks to Strengthen Ties

The visit of a NZ parliamentary delegation headed by Speaker Lockwood Smith in the second half of this week has been shrewdly timed...
AJ Hackett Helibungy in Buenos Aires

August 9, 1993 AJ Hackett undertakes the first ever helibungy in Latin America over Puerto Madero in Buneos Aires...
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