Born in Colombia to a first generation Palestinian-Chilean father and first generation Lebanese-Colombian mother, both of them Christian, Álvaro Saieh Bendeck is today a prominent, self-made and high-profile billionaire in…
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Chile had the leading economy in terms of real GDP growth in Latin America for two consecutive decades comprising the 1980s and 1990s. Moreover, just after reaching the new millennium,…
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The Safra Group, known formally as Grupo Safra S.A., is a splendid banking and privately-held institution based in Brazil while reaching other countries such as the US, the Caribbean and…
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Grupo Televisa S.A.B. is the biggest media enterprise throughout the Spanish-speaking world including Hispanic Latin America as well as Spain. In fact, trading in Mexico and here in the US,…
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Grupo Globo S.A. is a shining Brazilian media titan whose tentacles reach viewers, listeners and readers from all walks of life in Brazil. Beginning in 1925 after its foundation by…
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Residential real estate development in Latin America is heavily or at least fairly fragmented in most countries and home ownership in particular is emerging across all countries in the region.…
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The following is a study of one sector of the economy nowadays in Latin America that has been thriving lately with the proliferation of indoor malls and expansion of big…
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JBS S.A. is the biggest meatpacker the world has after an aggressive expansion in Brazil in the early 1980s and subsequent investment abroad after several strategic acquisitions upon entering the…
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Embraer S.A. is the only aircraft maker Latin America has and likewise a star of the Brazilian manufacturing industry. In fact, after its foundation by the Brazilian government in 1969…
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Jaime Gilinski Bacal is a prominent Jewish Colombian billionaire who got his start in business after obtaining his MBA from Harvard University and then entering the M&A department at Morgan…
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