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WEF – Special Meeting on Latin America Issue

Swiss Style Issue 222

Boom challenge

It’s not enough to just print the words “Order and Progress” on your flag for them to become reality. In Brazil, given the country’s history, they could be understood either [...]

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Views from the turf

They have been in business for 160 years and in Latin America since 1935. Both in the main cities and in the region’s heartlands, the wellspring of these unique societies. [...]

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Kerosene 2.0

The alchemists of yore believed in making gold by combining the four elements in some way and, perhaps, whispering incantations over the brew. Today, companies are able to produce gold [...]

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Mobility mission

The spread of the neo-liberal gospel plus globalisation in the past 30 years has redefined the relationship between the state and the market. The waves of privatisation put just about [...]

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Flight forward

After the financial crash of 2008, investors turned their attention to commodities with all that entailed including social unrest. Nations that are rich in commodities, like those of Latin America, [...]

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Fortunes teller

What are the realities and challenges facing Brazil’s growth. Swiss Style sat down for an interview with businessman, author, diplomat, scholar and futurist Marcos Troyjo, one of Latin America’s entrepreneurial [...]

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Turning tide

Latin America and particularly South America are experiencing an economic renaissance. One person who has witnessed the region’s evolution is Marisol Argueta de Barillas. She was Foreign Minister of El [...]

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Keep on trucking

O Brasil é o país do futuro e sempre será. For many years, it was said with sardonic resignation that “Brazil is the country of the future – and always [...]

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Big wheel

Some people just have the knack. While others get photographed in public in a wrinkled suit or chewing on something bulky, these blessed individuals always manage to look as if [...]

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Beyond Ipanema

Rio de Janeiro experiences a unique moment in its history. The directions of growth were resumed and the partnership between the state, federal and local governments – taken as a [...]

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Comment – Issue 222

Exceeding expectations I got a call from a business partner as I was heading to the airport for my flight to Rio de Janeiro. It was early February and my [...]

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Welcome to Rio de Janeiro

One of the New Seven Wonders of the World, the statue of Christ the Redeemer with arms wide open facing the Guanabara Bay and the Copacabana and Ipanema beaches is [...]

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