Fortune

• Is the party about to end in Brazil?, 08/06/2010 [text / image]
  Soaring exports to China fueled a boom in Brazil, but behind the euphoria, seasoned investors are starting to squirm. more...
• Wal-Mart Banks On Mexico, 02/04/2008 [image]
  TOLUCA, A SPRAWLING INDUSTRIAL TOWN near Mexico City, is an unlikely place for Wal-Mart's maiden push into banking. But there, in a strip mall, beside a bakery and a beauty parlor, Norma Pacheco is mulling a Wal-Mart account. "I'd use it to pay for my Wal-Mart purchases," says Pacheco, a 42-year-old engineer. "The brand gives me confidence." more...
• BP produces biodiesel fuel from African plant, 09/07/2007 [text]
  Can a poisonous plant become a biodiesel hero and help African economies in the process? BP thinks so. It believes jatropha - an inedible plant used for hedges that was spread around the world centuries ago by Portuguese sailors - can dent global fuel demands without using up foodstuffs such as corn, soy and sugar cane, plus boost incomes in Africa and other impoverished regions. more...
• Castro's Revenge: A Cuban oil rush is underway, 03/19/2007 [image]
  Sometime later this year, less than 70 miles from Florida, a consortium of Spanish, Indian, and Norwegian will likely start drilling for oil. It could mark the beginning of a Cuban oil rush—one that American companies won't be able to join, despite their proximity to the action. more...
• India Discovers Latin America, 07/28/2005 [text]
  Blink and you might miss Mahindra & Mahindra's operations in Uruguay. But the 16 pickup trucks arriving in pieces each month at a small assembly plant in Montevideo are the first wave in a tide of Indian exports heading for Latin America. more...
• The Wide, Wide World of WiMax, 11/29/2004 [text / image]
  Not much happens in drowsy San Miguel del Monte, 70 miles south of Buenos Aires. So a ripple of radio waves across the town's outlying fields and farms this spring—an early test of a new wireless broadband technology called WiMax—turned this Argentine enclave of 10,000 upside down. more...
• International First: Latin Outsourcing, 07/26/2004 [text / image]
  Where does an Indian outsourcing company go when it wants to outsource? These days, it's likely to be Buenos Aires. more...
• Argentina: Cheap Steaks, High Stakes, 03/08/2004 [text]
  It's summer in Buenos Aires, and revelers are spilling onto city streets. Hotels in seaside Mar del Plata bulge with businessmen, many of whom made big money on distressed-asset buys last year, taking their first summer break since a near meltdown in 2002. "Crisis? What crisis?" asks British expat Rob Elding, lured to the city by its $5 steaks and rock-bottom prices. more...
• Are Patents Really A Virtue?, 10/16/2000 [text / image]
  In this era of insane stock valuations, how can you ever tell when a company's technology is really worth the multiple that investors are paying? One obvious way, it would seem, is to look at the company's patents (if you have a Ph.D., that is). more...
• Emerging Markets That Live Up To The Name, 12/18/2000 [text / image]
  After repeatedly disappointing U.S. investors, a few countries in Latin America and Asia are finally reaping the benefits of a rising middle class. This time it really is different. more...