The drama continued to unfold around Argentina’s presidential race last week as the leading candidates announced their running mates for October’s election. In return for the much-needed endorsement of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Daniel Scioli agreed to share the ticket…
Multiple corruption scandals ensnaring politicians at the highest levels have recently ignited popular unrest in Guatemala, placing the country’s political and economic stability into doubt in the run-up to the September 2015 elections. Guatemala’s popular class took to the streets in…
Last weekend Barack Obama sat down with Raul Castro at the Summit of the Americas in Panama, marking the first in-person meeting between US and Cuban heads of state in over 50 years. This historic encounter, coupled with the removal…
Like many markets in Latin America, Colombia’s economy has begun to slow as global energy prices have fallen sharply. Indeed, FSG’s own forecasts for Colombia’s GDP growth in 2015 have fallen from 4.5 percent last July, when the spot price for Brent crude…
Frontier Strategy Group recently held its bi-annual Latin America Senior Executive Roundtable in São Paulo, Brazil. The day-long event hosted over 20 heads of Latin America and Brazil and focused on “Planning for an Uncertain Future in Latin America.” In…
Argentina’s thirty day grace period to pay holdout creditors in full and make a scheduled interest payment to restructured bondholders expired on Wednesday (July 30). Argentina was negotiating with holdout creditors through a court-appointed mediator, but ultimately no agreement was…
During my most recent trip to Brazil, a week before the start of the World Cup, I was eager to understand the mood of the country, and to see whether Brazil, infamous for miraculously pulling things together at the last…