<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Latin America: News &amp; Videos about Latin America - CNN.com</title><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Latin_America</link><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Latin America from CNN.com.</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Cable News Network LP, LLLP.</copyright><pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 09:21:26 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><image><title>Latin America: News &amp; Videos about Latin America - CNN.com</title><url>http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/120427052627-ghitis-obama-columbia-wall-4-tease.jpg</url><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Latin_America</link><width>144</width><height>33</height><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Latin America from CNN.com.</description></image><item><title>What Obama should do after the Secret Service scandal</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/27/opinion/ghitis-latin-america/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/27/opinion/ghitis-latin-america/index.html</guid><description>The Secret Service scandal has all the elements of a salacious story: Sex, alcohol, national security, politics, exotic tropical settings and sex -- or did I already mention sex? But beyond the breathless coverage and oh-so-shocked commentary lie some serious repercussions.</description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 20:31:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Local, hemispheric issues on table at Americas Summit</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/13/world/americas/colombia-summit-of-the-americas/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/13/world/americas/colombia-summit-of-the-americas/index.html</guid><description>Regional summits are most often perfunctory events where presidents share their visions, sign agreements and pose for photographs.</description><pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 01:53:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Latin America tempts interns</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/22/business/argentina-interns/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/22/business/argentina-interns/index.html</guid><description>Mary Bonsor graduated from law school in London last June and is now navigating her way around the labyrinth-like offices of Marval, O'Farrell &amp;amp; Mairal, Argentina's largest law firm.</description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:46:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. should embrace Latin America</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/08/opinion/ghitis-latin-america/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/08/opinion/ghitis-latin-america/index.html</guid><description>The United States is looking for new ways to regain its strength, to shake off the recession blues and fortify its position of international leadership. But Washington is missing the obvious, neglecting its closest neighbors. Big mistake.</description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 14:46:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Mexico, Cuba, Brazil: Why Latin America matters for U.S. national security</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/20/politics/latin-america-preview/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/20/politics/latin-america-preview/index.html</guid><description>It used to be said that if the American economy sneezed, Latin America and the Caribbean would catch a cold.</description><pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 17:27:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Latin America lures Chinese tourists</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/26/travel/latin-china-tourism/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/26/travel/latin-china-tourism/index.html</guid><description>Maria Jose Martinez Waldner grew up speaking Spanish and English at her home in Buenos Aires. Several years ago she decided to learn Mandarin Chinese, a language that is rarely heard in Argentina.</description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 03:06:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>After 9/11, U.S. left Latin America at the altar</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/09/06/hadden.latin.america.9.11/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/09/06/hadden.latin.america.9.11/index.html</guid><description>I was far away from my native New York when the planes struck on September 11,10 years ago. But I had front-row seats to how those attacks derailed relations between the United States and Latin America.</description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 23:30:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Amnesty International: Latin America 'dangerous' for journalists</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/americas/05/12/americas.press.freedom/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/americas/05/12/americas.press.freedom/index.html</guid><description>As attackers target reporters and governments shut down television stations, Latin America ranks among the most dangerous regions for journalists, according to an Amnesty International report released Friday</description><pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 00:16:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>New economic alliance forms in Latin America</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/americas/04/29/peru.pacific.alliance/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/americas/04/29/peru.pacific.alliance/index.html</guid><description>Four of Latin America's most pro-business countries signed a pact forming a bloc for "deep integration" to promote growth and economic competitiveness.</description><pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 18:46:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Obama heralds new era of partnership with resurgent Latin America</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/americas/03/21/chile.obama.latin.america/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/americas/03/21/chile.obama.latin.america/index.html</guid><description>President Barack Obama called Monday for a new era of partnership between the United States and Latin America, acknowledging the region's increasing importance and stability that serve as a model for the world.</description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 21:25:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Latin America in 2011: Year of the female politician</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/12/30/latin.america.women.politics/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/12/30/latin.america.women.politics/index.html</guid><description>The New Year will be big for female politicians in Latin America.</description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2010 19:09:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Britain to expand its ties to Latin America</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/11/09/uk.latin.america/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/11/09/uk.latin.america/index.html</guid><description>The United Kingdom is turning its sights to Latin America, a region that it has neglected, Foreign Minister William Hague said.</description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 01:49:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Prison massacre witness wants memories to live on</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/08/03/vbs.carandiru.massacre/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/08/03/vbs.carandiru.massacre/index.html</guid><description>Throughout the 1990s, São Paulo's House of Detention contained about 8,000 of Latin America's most violent criminals. Better known as Carandiru, it was once the largest prison on the continent. On October 2, 1992, a massive fight broke out in the Brazilian complex among the prisoners. It ultimately resulted in 111 inmate deaths.</description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 12:20:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>MLB expanding operations in Latin America</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/baseball/mlb/04/02/latin.america.operations/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/baseball/mlb/04/02/latin.america.operations/index.html</guid><description>Major League Baseball is making a sweeping change to its operations in Latin America. In an email sent to front office officials on Friday, baseball's Dominican Republic point man Sandy Alderson announced that the Major League Baseball Scouting Bureau will expand its operations to include Latin America.</description><pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 06:45:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Latin America sees its first same-sex marriage</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/12/28/argentina.gay.marriage/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/12/28/argentina.gay.marriage/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Less than one month after a Buenos Aires court derailed the marriage of Alex Freyre and Jose Maria di Bello, the couple wed Monday at the southern tip of Argentina, making it the first same-sex marriage in Latin America.</description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 14:39:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Fidel Castro: U.S. is on offensive</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/12/14/cuba.us/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/12/14/cuba.us/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Latin America's leftist leaders ended a two-day summit in Havana with some tough words for the United States.</description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:44:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Latin America's first gay marriage halted</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/11/30/argentina.gay.marriage/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/11/30/argentina.gay.marriage/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Latin America's first same-sex marriage, set to be held in Argentina on Tuesday, appeared derailed after a judge filed an injunction to stop the union until the issue can be reviewed further.</description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:07:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Emigrants' remittances to Latin America declining, report says</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/08/12/remittances.down/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/08/12/remittances.down/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The remittances that emigrants send back to Latin America and the Caribbean, an important component of the gross domestic product for many countries in the region, will decline more than 10 percent this year, a new report says.</description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:10:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Communists, capitalists still buy into iconic Che photo, author says</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/books/05/05/argentina.che.photo/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/books/05/05/argentina.che.photo/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>It is the most popular photograph in history: Argentine revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara stares pensively at the horizon, his steely eyes shielded behind a thick beard and his trademark beret. The shot -- taken by Cuban photographer Alberto Korda in Havana on March 5, 1960 -- turned the charismatic and controversial leader into a cultural icon.</description><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 18:25:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>El Salvador's ex-guerilla group loses capital, strong elsewhere</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/01/19/el.salvador.election/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/01/19/el.salvador.election/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Tallies from Sunday's nationwide voting showed El Salvador's main leftist party losing its hold on the capital but opening a lead Monday in the Legislative Assembly.</description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 04:09:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Sunday vote in El Salvador may hint at coming presidential pick</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/01/16/el.salvador.election/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/01/16/el.salvador.election/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>El Salvador will elect more than 340 local and congressional officials Sunday, two months before the nation's presidential election. But Sunday's results could go a long way toward determining who that next president will be.</description><pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 01:50:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>In Latin America, Pointing a Finger at the US 
</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1847976,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1847976,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Analysis: Venezuela's Chavez may crow about the demise of the U.S. economy, but it will tighten his own belt. Latin America's big winner may instead be Brazil, the country that has best managed capitalism
</description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Global stocks in Monday mess</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2008/10/06/news/international/world_markets/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2008/10/06/news/international/world_markets/index.htm</guid><description>Major markets in Europe, Asia and Latin America sank Monday as traders looked past America's bank bailout bill and focused on Europe's growing financial crisis.</description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:32:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: Immigrants melting into the pot as usual</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/27/navarette.may.27/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/27/navarette.may.27/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>On the question of whether recent immigrants assimilate as quickly as previous waves, many Americans exhibit short fuses -- and even shorter memories.</description><pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 00:36:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>How Will Chavez Handle Defeat?</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1691102,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1691102,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>On election night, Venezuela's President went from anger to resignation as he realized voters were turning against him. But the defeat could help focus his socialist agenda</description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 15:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Jonah Freedman: Arsenal, Man Utd. stumble, Inter charges up to No. 1</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/jonah_freedman/11/29/rankings/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/jonah_freedman/11/29/rankings/index.html</guid><description>Anyone for Italian? The two English powerhouses both had slight stumbles this past week, so a new No. 1 comes slipping up through the cracks. Inter Milan is doing it on both ends of the field against all opponents and is back on top again -- legitimately this time, too.</description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:52:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>CNN Heroes: Duvall shines spotlight on cause</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/10/04/duvall.heroes/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/10/04/duvall.heroes/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Robert Duvall's heroes are Carmen Velasco and Lynne Patterson -- two women who are changing the lives of other women throughout Latin America one loan at a time.</description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:50:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Behind the King's Rebuke to Ch&amp;amp;#193;vez</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1682967,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1682967,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Analysis: It was the "shut up" heard round the world. But what may have upset Venezuela's fiery leader was not the King of Spain, but a fellow leftist Prime Minister</description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:55:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>It's time to live up to family values</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2007/10/01/100434040/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2007/10/01/100434040/index.htm</guid><description>As technology companies search from India to Eastern Europe for talent, and employers of day laborers decry attempts to cut off the supply from Latin America, CEOs seem to have overlooked one way of at least partly remedying the worker-shortage problem: Make their companies more family-friendly.</description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:39:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Adios, Bangalore</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2007/09/28/magazines/fortune/mehta_pluggedinlatam.fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2007/09/28/magazines/fortune/mehta_pluggedinlatam.fortune/index.htm</guid><description>Most Americans realize that when they call a bank, electronics maker or insurance provider, there's a good chance their queries will be routed to a call center outside the U.S., perhaps in India, the Philippines or other markets filled with English speakers happy to provide customer service or tech support for relatively low wages.</description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2007 03:14:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Immigrant Population Reaches High</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1661072,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1661072,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Nearly one in five people living in the United States speaks a language at home other than English, according to new Census data</description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Abortion Under Siege in Latin America 
 


</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1651307,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1651307,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Though leftist parties hold power in countries like Bolivia, pro-choice activists are finding themselves on the defensive</description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 16:05:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Gregory Sica: Boca proved why it's Latin America's primary power</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/gregory_sica/06/21/boca.champs/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/gregory_sica/06/21/boca.champs/index.html</guid><description>If there was any question who the dominant power in the Western Hemisphere is, Boca Juniors provided an empathic answer on Wednesday. Boca's stunning 5-0 aggregate victory over Gr&amp;#65533;mio in the final of the Copa Libertadores was the most one-sided score line in the history of Latin America's ultimate club competition.</description><pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2007 01:58:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bush trip may have started healing Latin America rift</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/03/15/bush.latam.trip/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/03/15/bush.latam.trip/index.html</guid><description>You can take the president out of the Beltway, but you can't keep the Beltway away from the president, as the president himself learned on his recent trip to Latin America.</description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:46:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>U.N.: Fewer children in factories, fields</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/05/04/child.labor/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/05/04/child.labor/index.html</guid><description>Child labor is on the decline  -- especially in Latin America -- and its most egregious forms could be eliminated within the next decade, a U.N. agency said Thursday in a report it called "cautiously optimistic."</description><pubDate>Thu, 04 May 2006 19:39:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>March show: climbing property ladders</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/TRAVEL/02/27/bt.upcoming/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/TRAVEL/02/27/bt.upcoming/index.html</guid><description>We normally travel for business, but on this month's show we travel for pleasure and for profit, searching for that perfect second home.</description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2006 11:07:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>February's show: A focus on Brazil</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/TRAVEL/01/26/bt.upcoming/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/TRAVEL/01/26/bt.upcoming/index.html</guid><description>Richard Quest takes the show to Brazil for a country focus, traveling to Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro to take a look at the country's potential for economic stardom, and talk to ministers, business leaders and cultural figures.</description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2006 14:50:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>A 'Third Way' for Latin America?</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/01/24/morton.latinamerica/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/01/24/morton.latinamerica/index.html</guid><description>In Bolivia a few days ago, they were celebrating the inauguration of Evo Morales, the country's first Indian president.</description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2006 19:28:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Don't cry for Argentina, Brazil or Chile</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2005/11/30/news/international/latam/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2005/11/30/news/international/latam/index.htm</guid><description>NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - Who says it's been a challenging year for American stocks?</description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2005 16:51:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Why Latin America Is The New India</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2005/08/01/8269669/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2005/08/01/8269669/index.htm</guid><description>With its beaches, golf courses, cuba libres, and rock-solid social-security system, it's no wonder that Costa Rica is luring American executives who want an alternative to Indian outsourcing. After...</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2005 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Let's go Latin (stocks)</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2004/12/22/news/international/latam/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2004/12/22/news/international/latam/index.htm</guid><description>NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Pop quiz time: What is the best performing mutual fund category this year?</description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2004 15:40:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Lost in Translation Time and again, product names in foreign lands have come back to haunt even the most brilliant of marketers.</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2004/08/01/377394/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2004/08/01/377394/index.htm</guid><description>A vacation in France for Americans who have a zippy Toyota MR2 roadster back home provides a rare opportunity to feel smug around the French. After all, French drivers are still poking along in the...</description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2004 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Stocks pop at open</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2004/03/25/markets/markets_nyopen/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2004/03/25/markets/markets_nyopen/index.htm</guid><description>Technology gains paced a stock market bounce early Thursday, with the sector continuing to lead the recovery for a second session following a more than two-week period of consolidation.</description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2004 14:21:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Americas summit opens on optimistic note</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/01/12/americas.summit/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/01/12/americas.summit/index.html</guid><description>Leaders at the inauguration of a 34-nation Summit of the Americas Monday expressed optimism that seemingly intractable issues of poverty, trade and corruption in Latin America and the Caribbean could be overcome.</description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2004 14:24:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>New Money</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2003/07/07/345529/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2003/07/07/345529/index.htm</guid><description>The rich are getting richer--but not in the U.S. According to a new report by Cap Gemini Ernst &amp;amp; Young and Merrill Lynch, the number of millionaires* increased during 2002 in every region of the wo...</description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2003 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Winners of the World</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/11/27/292407/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/11/27/292407/index.htm</guid><description>It isn't easy becoming a great place to do business, but once a city cracks the list, chances are it will stay there. Of this year's 15 best international cities, nine also ranked last year; the re...</description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Nov 2000 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Going Global With StarMedia Chief Fernando Espuelas</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/04/03/277174/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/04/03/277174/index.htm</guid><description>Most multinational corporations start small, building market share at home first, then steadily branching out abroad. But most multinationals are not run by entrepreneurs like Fernando Espuelas, th...</description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Apr 2000 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Going Global</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fsb/fsb_archive/2000/04/01/277554/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fsb/fsb_archive/2000/04/01/277554/index.htm</guid><description>Most multinational corporations start small, building market share at home first, then steadily branching out abroad. But most multinationals are not run by entrepreneurs like Fernando Espuelas, th...</description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Apr 2000 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Dialing In On Latin America Once a sleepy, government-owned phone company, Spain's Telefonica is now investing billions south of</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/10/25/267817/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/10/25/267817/index.htm</guid><description>No company could be more Spanish than Telefonica, the country's national phone giant. Walk down a street in Madrid, and sooner or later you'll stumble across Telefonica engineers wiring the guts of...</description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 1999 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Salsa Beat: Meet Latin America's Net Bets</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/10/11/267021/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/10/11/267021/index.htm</guid><description>Latin pop phenoms Ricky Martin and Jennifer Lopez may have ruled the airwaves during this so-called Latin summer, but for investors, the season's main act was StarMedia Networks. </description><pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 1999 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Your Best Moves Now Don't waste time trying to guess             the market's every twitch and turn. We've got the stocks and   </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1999/08/01/263961/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1999/08/01/263961/index.htm</guid><description>Here's a pop quiz: In the past 12 months, which of the following have occurred? a) a bear market b) currency crises in both Russia and Brazil c) the impeachment of the President of the United State...</description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 1999 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bottom-Fishing With Latin America's Newest Financiers A NEW PRIVATE EQUITY MARKET IS BORN</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/04/26/258736/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/04/26/258736/index.htm</guid><description>What was Mario Baeza doing in January, in the middle of looming economic collapse in Brazil, telling a Brazilian fish processor, "Buy the Chilean fishing boats!"? And by the way, to send the bill t...</description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 1999 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Sidestepping Latin Market Tumult With Corporate Debt BLUE CHIPS IN BUENOS AIRES</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1998/09/28/248722/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1998/09/28/248722/index.htm</guid><description>Latin America has always been a tricky place to invest, but it's rarely been as scary as it is today. Stock markets in the region's three largest countries--Brazil, Mexico, and Argentina--have been...</description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 1998 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brazil: Hanging by a Thread</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1998/09/28/248697/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1998/09/28/248697/index.htm</guid><description>Will Latin America be the next domino to fall in the great emerging market collapse? That's no idle question, because more than a fifth of U.S. exports, or some $70.8 billion, go to Latin America. ...</description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 1998 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Rebounding Emerging Markets Bond Funds Offer Lofty Yields--If You Can Handle The Risks</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1998/05/01/241534/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1998/05/01/241534/index.htm</guid><description>Not too long ago, only investors with an Evel Knievel-like tolerance for risk would have considered emerging markets bonds. After all, as last fall's Asian economic crisis reverberated through deve...</description><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 1998 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Case For Heading South Morgan Stanley's Andy Skov             says Latin America is one place that high-growth stocks       </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1998/04/27/241494/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1998/04/27/241494/index.htm</guid><description>We're going to have to switch to my office," says Andy Skov apologetically, ushering me out of the conference room. "I want to be near my phone and computers." Skov, 32, is Morgan Stanley's point m...</description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 1998 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>A Hot Fund Manager Says Buy Brazil, Shun China</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1998/03/01/238617/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1998/03/01/238617/index.htm</guid><description>On a trip to Thailand in January 1997, Mark Madden, manager of the $156 million Pioneer Emerging Markets Fund, visited some two dozen companies asking: How much of the foreign currency debt on your...</description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 1998 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Bond Funds</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1998/01/01/236917/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1998/01/01/236917/index.htm</guid><description>Adios, Emerging Markets. Hello, Junk Bonds. It took a market crisis that spread from Asia to Latin America to dethrone them, but emerging markets bond funds do not have a single entry on our one-ye...</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 1998 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>WHERE YOU COULD DOUBLE YOUR MONEY IN FIVE YEARS</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1997/09/01/230944/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1997/09/01/230944/index.htm</guid><description>THIS MONTH: --Zweig on the hidden dangers of index funds --A low-risk fund with global reach </description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 1997 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>EMERGING MARKETS STILL RULE.</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1997/07/01/228506/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1997/07/01/228506/index.htm</guid><description>Income investors who want equity-like returns can take a chance on sizzling emerging markets bond funds, which invest in debt issues in Latin America, Eastern Europe and the Far East. For the 16th ...</description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 1997 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>EARN 20% INVESTING ABROAD HERE'S WHY FOREIGN SHARES ARE POISED TO CLOBBER U.S. STOCKS IN '97. WE IDENTIFY THE HOT MARKETS--AND O</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1996/11/27/225070/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1996/11/27/225070/index.htm</guid><description>Bet you don't know this: while U.S. stocks have raced ahead 17.5% so far this year, more than a dozen foreign markets--including Brazil, Hong Kong, Ireland and Taiwan--have fared even better. What'...</description><pubDate>Wed, 27 Nov 1996 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>FUND FLASH</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1996/11/11/218195/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1996/11/11/218195/index.htm</guid><description>CLOSED BUT NOT FORGOTTEN </description><pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 1996 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>WHY TO INVEST UP TO 15% IN EMERGING MARKETS</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1996/04/01/211186/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1996/04/01/211186/index.htm</guid><description>THIS MONTH: --What savvy managers are buying now --A fund that focuses on the bluest chips </description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 1996 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>HERE'S A FUND FEE SHAREHOLDERS SHOULD BE GLAD TO SEE</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1996/04/01/211187/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1996/04/01/211187/index.htm</guid><description>MONEY has been telling you for years that most mutual fund companies charge far too much in annual management fees and other expenses. We still believe that--but there's one kind of fee that's a go...</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 1996 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>ASIA WILL BE HOT, JAPAN WILL NOT HERE'S OUR '96             OUTLOOK FOR STOCKS IN FIVE MAJOR REGIONS, PLUS 12 TOP MUTUAL        </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1995/12/06/207632/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1995/12/06/207632/index.htm</guid><description>The early reviews are rolling in for the 1996 production of As the World Turns, and overseas markets are winning raves. "Cheap stocks and strong growth rates abroad mean that selected foreign marke...</description><pubDate>Wed, 06 Dec 1995 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>EXPERTS PREDICT THAT FOREIGN STOCKS WILL OUTPERFORM             U.S. EQUITIES OVER THE NEXT 12 TO 18 MONTHS. SO HERE'S...       </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1995/10/01/206630/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1995/10/01/206630/index.htm</guid><description>With U.S. stocks racking up returns of 20% to 35% so far this year, you might figure only a lunatic would bother to seek superior gains abroad. But think again. "It's a virtual slam dunk that many ...</description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Oct 1995 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>PORTFOLIO TALK A VOTE FOR SQUID, BEER, AND BANCO O'HIGGINS AN INTERVIEW WITH GRACE PINEDA Manager of MERRILL LYNCH DEVELOPING CA</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/12/12/80059/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/12/12/80059/index.htm</guid><description>Born in the Philippines and living the itinerant childhood of a diplomat's daughter, Grace Pineda became proficient not only in her native Tagalog but also in English, French, Russian, and Spanish....</description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 1994 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>ECONOMIC INTELLIGENCE WHAT CAPITAL SHORTAGE?</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/11/28/80018/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/11/28/80018/index.htm</guid><description>One of the more fashionable explanations for the current high altitude of global interest rates is the supposed global capital shortage. Developing nations are building their economies like mad, th...</description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 1994 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>THE BIG RISE Middle classes explode around the globe, bringing new markets and new prosperity.</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/05/30/79352/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/05/30/79352/index.htm</guid><description>DRIVING TOWARD Shekou, a throbbing port in southern China, is like a journey into a region hit by an earthquake. The ground seems to move under you. Mounds of red mud are piled everywhere as land i...</description><pubDate>Mon, 30 May 1994 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Overseas funds start off strong </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1994/03/01/88699/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1994/03/01/88699/index.htm</guid><description>With the economy finally gathering speed, the average domestic stock fund rose almost 3% in January before the Feb. 4 nosedive. Not bad -- even though that gain was only half as brawny as that earn...</description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 1994 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>A FIRST-CLASS PAYOFF FROM THIRD WORLD DEBT</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/02/21/79003/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/02/21/79003/index.htm</guid><description>Wall Street old-timers used to chuckle about ''Peruvian bonds'': broker slang for worthless securities. Nowadays owners of the Andean country's debt are the ones who are smiling. Loans that sold fo...</description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 1994 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>THE OUTLOOK FOR 22 INDUSTRIES From automobile manufacturers to steelmakers to telephone companies, the winners far outnumber the</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/01/10/78844/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/01/10/78844/index.htm</guid><description>MORE and more companies are starting to see a payoff from their struggle to adapt to the new economy. So while this expansion doesn't look at all like the rip-roaring ones of yore, and though Ameri...</description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 1994 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>12 Stock Funds Set to Score in '94 Investing will be             no Sunday in the park next year, but these picks can blossom an</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1993/12/15/88531/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1993/12/15/88531/index.htm</guid><description>Despite the storm gathering over U.S. markets, this is no time to abandon stocks. True, most analysts, including MONEY's Michael Sivy, regard a retreat of 10% to 15% by early next year as increasin...</description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 1993 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>WORLD WIDE OPPORTUNITIES WHERE THE GLOBAL ACTION IS             It may not be in the places you expect -- or the places you     </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1993/11/22/78646/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1993/11/22/78646/index.htm</guid><description>GLOBALIZATION. Aren't we sick of it? Haven't we heard enough already about consumers from Alabama to Zambia wearing Levi's and Nikes and sweaters from Benetton, drinking Coke and Pepsi, eating Big ...</description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 1993 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>ECONOMIC INTELLIGENCE THE LATIN WAY TO BOOST SAVINGS</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1993/11/01/78564/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1993/11/01/78564/index.htm</guid><description>Frustrated by Americans' disinclination to save? Perhaps Washington's wonks should look south, way south, for a solution. One after another, countries in Latin America are employing a radical measu...</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 1993 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>ARE FOREIGN PROFITS GOOD FOR STOCKS?</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/11/16/77150/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/11/16/77150/index.htm</guid><description>Made in the U.S.A.: That, you tell your children, is what your stock portfolio looks like. Good old American companies like Coca-Cola provide plenty of good returns, you say. Watch the dollar, whim...</description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 1992 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>GO ABROAD FOR BIGGER RETURNS Foreign stock markets             offer greater growth potential than those in the U.S. To         </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/10/26/77042/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/10/26/77042/index.htm</guid><description>BUY MEXICAN STOCKS? That's certainly not something Bonnie and Timothy Sprague had thought of five years ago. For the husband-and-wife radiologists from Santa Monica, California, Mexico was a place ...</description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 1992 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>THE WORLD ECONOMY IN CHARTS</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/07/27/76696/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/07/27/76696/index.htm</guid><description>WELCOME TO FORTUNE's annual feature, the World Economy in Charts, 11 pages of graphs and tables that show how nations have performed in the past three years -- and where they are likely to head in ...</description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 1992 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>SHIFTING TRADE SHARES </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/07/27/76690/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/07/27/76690/index.htm</guid><description>The Nineties have brought a new set of trade trends. The U.S. reversed its slippage as an exporter, helped by more competitive industries, the weaker dollar, and the growth of markets in developing...</description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 1992 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>A HOT YEAR FOR WORLD MARKETS </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/01/27/75999/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/01/27/75999/index.htm</guid><description>True enough, the bulls ran wild in the U.S. last year as its stocks returned an average 26% to investors, the most of any major market. But that was mere animal feed to the markets of smaller natio...</description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jan 1992 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>HOW LATIN AMERICA IS OPENING UP Opportunities abound for U.S. business as governments cut tariffs, welcome foreign companies, an</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/04/08/74857/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/04/08/74857/index.htm</guid><description>IF YOU DOUBT that there's a new climate for foreign businesses in Latin America, consider this tale. Michael Jordan, chairman of PepsiCo's international snack and beverage businesses, called on Mex...</description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 1991 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>DIAL M FOR PROFITS</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/08/13/73907/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/08/13/73907/index.htm</guid><description>Looking for opportunities in privatization of state-owned enterprises? Don't assume that you are limited to Eastern Europe. In one of the largest such deals in Latin America ever, the Mexican gover...</description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 1990 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>TODAY'S LEADERS LOOK TO TOMORROW WORLD HERNANDO DE             SOTO LATIN AMERICA NEEDS MORE THAN FREE MARKETS</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/03/26/73237/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/03/26/73237/index.htm</guid><description>The short-run outlook for Latin America is gloomy. Most countries now have or soon will have democratic governments that understand the need for free- market policies rather than populism and Marxi...</description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 1990 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>TODAY'S LEADERS LOOK TO TOMORROW MANAGING PERCY             BARNEVIK ^ TO COMPETE GLOBALLY, LOOK AT THE WORLD MAP</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/03/26/73307/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/03/26/73307/index.htm</guid><description>There is a tendency in the Western world to talk about only one region at a time. Ten years ago, people talked about Latin America as a great opportunity. Now everyone talks about Eastern Europe. I...</description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 1990 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>A LATIN DEBT PLAN THAT MIGHT WORK The Brady proposal lays out a plausible scheme for solving the monstrous problem -- but only i</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/04/24/71889/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/04/24/71889/index.htm</guid><description>TREASURY SECRETARY Nicholas Brady has set U.S. policy toward the Third World's mountain of debt on the most promising course yet. Finally there's a chance -- slim but real -- that the rich and the ...</description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Apr 1989 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>JOHN REED'S BOLD STROKE By owning up to reality and reserving $3 billion against possible losses on Third World loans, the Citic</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/06/22/69179/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/06/22/69179/index.htm</guid><description>IN GREEK TRAGEDY it's called anagnorisis, the climactic moment when the protagonist recognizes his fate, irreversibly changing the action of the drama. In the tragedy of Third World debt, that scen...</description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 1987 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>SWAPS CAN SHRINK LATIN DEBT -- A LITTLE Though hardly a panacea, exchanging loans for ownership of local companies or property c</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/08/18/67920/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/08/18/67920/index.htm</guid><description>LATIN AMERICA'S financial medicine men are experimenting with what many claim is a wonder drug to cure the region's debt problem. U.S., European, and Japanese lenders would swap loans to troubled c...</description><pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 1986 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>