If you’ve been second-guessing the massive impact social media is having on multinational companies’ operations in Latin America, consider this:WorldCity’s June 28 Global Connections, titled Social Media Latin Style, attracted more than 120 international businesspeople, the most ever, for a wide ranging discussion looking at everything from how boutique agencies specialized in social media serve…

Just as Latin America’s “bottom of the pyramid” – the millions of poor – represents an opportunity for multinationals, so do the wealthy, whose appetite for luxury goods, unique experiences and over-the-top service grew despite the worldwide economic downturn and continues today. A panel of executives from companies that focus on this lucrative, hard-to-reach market…

Most of the multinationals doing business in Miami are looking south, toward Latin America and the Caribbean. With Latin America’s expanding economies creating new middle-class wealth, companies based throughout Central and South America are growing in stride. As they do so, they look to expand internationally, which could mean into neighboring countries, but also across…

Latin America has come a long way in recent decades. “There’s no question that the hemisphere is much better off than it was 50 years ago,” said former Ambassador to Venezuela Otto Reich. “Military dictatorship, violent revolution, discrepancy in standards of living – all have shrunk.”  Yet there is also much to be done across…

How the world eats is quickly changing. Dr Pepper / Snapple’s Cezary Wlodarczyk represents the world’s third-largest beverage company internationally. (Photos: Carlos Miller) “We produce most of the world’s apple juice [and recently] in the worldwide market, concentrate cost went up 150 percent,” said Cezary Wlodarczyk, director of international sales for the Dr Pepper Snapple…

Terremark founder Manny Medina sold the company to Verizon for $2 billion, is now focused on making Miami a hub for Latin America and technology. (PHOTOS: Carlos Miller.) With the $2 billion sale of Miami-based IT provider Terremark to Verizon in his rear view mirror, former CEO Manny Medina already has a keen focus on…

How does one define security in era of global business and instant communications? The risks are vast, the danger are numerous, yet there are also a handful of simple solutions that can increase your odds against kidnapping, data or intellectual property theft, argued a panel of experts during WorldCity’s Global Connection on Sept. 28. “Privacy…

The future of corporate social responsibility lies in tying those efforts to companies’ bottom lines, and showing that they can be used to improve business, rather than just a company’s image. That’s the message a panel of CSR experts with the U.S. State Department, FedEx and Medtronic Latin America said during a WorldCity Global Connection…

“Could it be for the first time the U.S. needs Latin America more than Latin America needs the U.S.?” Weitzman covered Chile, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela for the Financial Times in the mid 2000s. That’s the question Hal Weitzman, the Financial Times ’ Chicago and Midwest bureau chief, asked of a Global Connections audience on…