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Mexico's national oil company loses money hand over fist and is leveraged to the hilt. It needs major reform urgently.

LatinFinance has compiled its second annual ranking of the 50 most powerful and influential people in Latin America and the Caribbean, spanning business, politics, government, academia and even pop culture.

Brazilian lawmakers overrode President Luiz Inacio...

Mexico's financial markets are growing, and experts say not even the run-up to next year's presidential election will disrupt confidence.

The past two years have seen two presidents run out of office in Bolivia. Will next year bring the overthrow of another?

A decade after the Tequila Crisis, Mexico's banks are lending again and the capital markets are blossoming. Future development will depend on next year's elections.

Wall Street's bulge-bracket firms stampeded out of Brazil three years ago. Now they are fighting to get back into the game again.

Brazil exchanged its benchmark Brady C-bond with a new, improved bond called the A-bond, thanks to some clever liability management.

Colombia's Santo Domingo Group became a player in the global beer market by trading Bavaria for a stake in SABMiller. Bavaria's minority holders got a sweet deal too.

José Sérgio Gabrielli, the new president of Petrobras, the Brazilian national oil company, says what will remain the same and what will change under his command.

Mexican companies talk a good game, but in most sectors only two or three companies still dominate their business. But Mexico is revitalizing its anti-trust efforts.

Brazil's economy expanded an unexpectedly robust...