American buys slices of South America
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The American multimillionaire who founded the North Face and Esprit clothing lines says he is trying to save the planet by buying bits of it. First Douglas Tompkins purchased a huge swath of southern Chile, and now he's hoping to save the northeast wetlands of neighboring Argentina.
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LA PAZ, Bolivia Angela Tapia shouldered her way through a swarm of shoppers, bumping toward the vending stalls that offered an exhaustively eclectic selection of sale items.
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Demand lots of value at low prices.
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If you are giving or receiving roses this Valentineâs Day, chances are that they came from the same countries that produced your coffee.
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Inhabitants of the New World had chili peppers and the makings of taco chips 6,100 years ago, according to new research that examined the bowl-scrapings of people sprinkled throughout Central America and the Amazon basin.
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Opportunity beckons as never before, as immigrants expand the tastes of mainstream America.
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In a retail market keen on the word ânatural,â exports of Brazilâs beauty products have been rising quickly.
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New Yorkâs chic shopping districts seem to be teeming these days with foreign tourists taking advantage of the weak dollar. Foreign retailers are now joining them.
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Never mind the caffeine. Brazil wants to convince health-conscious Americans in its biggest market that coffee can be good for you.
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RIBEIRAO CLARO, Brazil  - Coffee farmers in the hills of northern Parana are buying hand-held harvesting machines to cut crippling labour costs and remain competitive.
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PREMIER FOODS emerged victorious in the bidding for another slice of UK larder shelf history. The owner of Ambrosia creamed rice has bought Birdâs custard and Angel Delight brands from Kraft for Â£70 million
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Internationally owned grocery store chains are claiming more and more of the Latin American market, analysts say. In the 1990s supermarkets went from controlling 10 percent to 20 percent of various Latin American
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There's upside to buying in a choppy market.
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Salvadoran immigrant Aresenio Ayala walked past the Western Union outlet on Mount Pleasant Road last week and stopped instead at Mi Pueblo, where he sent money to a relative in San Salvador. He said he decided to give the company a try after he saw a flier in the neighborhood.
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PUNTA DEL ESTE, Uruguay  - The glitter is back at the Uruguayan peninsula long known as South America's summer playground for the rich and famous -- a Latin version of Monaco or the Hamptons of New York.
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SAN PEDRO MASAHUAT, El Salvador -- Marta Sonia Ayala hunched over a metal table in a room that resembles a large restaurant kitchen, scooping heaps of a light brown powder into plastic bags. Later, she placed the bags of frijolito -- beans ground into flour -- in a heat-sealing machine, placed colored labels on them and shipped them to 22 stores throughout the country where they would sell for $1.35 a pound.
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LONDON, Jan 18 (IPS) - Peru gave the world the potato, and the potato now  offers indigenous people around the world a new recipe for  securing their rights.