Economic headlines: U.N. lauds economy; Varig forced to run flights; banks bolting from Brickell Ave.

-HSBC purchased Panama’s largest bank for $1.8 billion.

-A U.N. report says that Latin America’s economy is growing at a good pace.

-“Six Strategic Reasons to Support a U.S.-Peru Free Trade Agreement”: capitalist mumbo-jumbo or viable economic strategy?

-The cost of living in countries of the southern cone of South America has increased over recent years.

-Brazil’s government has rejected plans for Varig Airlines to stop carrying flights.

-Compare and contrast these two articles on IMF data on the Bolivian economy.

-Miami’s Brickell Avenue is slowly losing Latin American banks that made the street famous in films like Scarface.

latin america, free trade, international economy