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Rogelio Velasco turns a love for dressmaking into one of New York's hottest labels. AT 13, ROGELLO VELASCO BEGAN SEWING COSTUMES FOR HIS sisters, who danced in the ballet folklorico [...]

Meet the 11 Internet executives who are taking the financial industry by storm in Latin America. THE FOLLOWING 10 MEN--AND ONE WOMAN--ARE BETTING big that Latin Americans will someday replace [...]

Continental Airlines aggressively pursues business traffic from the United States to Mexico's mid-sized industrial centers. WHEN PETE GARCIA TRAVELS TO MID-sized Mexican cities such as Puebla, San Luis Potosi and [...]

Tiny Houston InterWeb Design wants to expand into Brazil, but is it seeking business or just publicity? SOME U.S. COMPANIES ARE GOING TO great lengths to capitalize on the Latin [...]

El Paso Energy unveils a bold plan to build a US$1 billion electricity-generating complex in power-poor S[tilde{a}]o Paulo state. WEARING A PLASTER CAST THAT STRETCHED FROM HIS HEEL to his [...]

Rodizio Grill's Ivan Utrera brings Brazilian-style churrascarias to the United States. IN 1995, IVAN UTRERA WAS AN UP-AND-COMING EXECUTIVE at PepsiCo. The Sao Paulo native had just finished a three-year [...]

WHAT DO YOU GET WHEN YOU MIX GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRATS, private bankers and academics in a party town like New Orleans? Meeting, eating, drinking--and very little deal-making. That pretty much describes [...]

Orbcomm is offering a more cost-effective way to keep up with cargo in Latin America. TRACKING SHIPMENTS VIA SATELLITE IS nothing new in Latin America. For years, companies have been [...]

Latin eVentures' Cenmar Fuertes drops distributing computers for online sales. IN MAY 1999, CENMAR FUERTES WAS ON THE CORPORATE FAST track. As director of the Tokyo office of Ingram Micro, [...]

Mission Bufete Constructors was on a building tear in Texas--until its Mexican parent company ran into trouble with its creditors. EARLY LAST YEAR, MISSION BUFETE Constructors was on a roll. [...]

Link America's Andre Ruzo finds a burgeoning market in used telephone equipment. GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ MAY HAVE WRITTEN LOVE IN THE Time of Cholera, but if Andre Ruzo had penned [...]

Williams Communications Group is quietly putting together the pieces that may someday create a region-wide fiber-optic network. S. MILLER WILLIAMS' EXPERIENCE IN Latin America runs deep. As a teenager in [...]

Mexican states are opening U.S. offices to push trade and investment opportunities, not just culture. PATRICIA HERRERA'S OFFICE LOOKS more like a Red Cross relief station than a Mexican state's [...]

Doyle Brewington's gizmo promises cheap electricity for remote areas. Now all he has to do is make it work. IT'S A COMMON PROBLEM FOR MANY poor Latin American countries: How [...]

LATIN AMERICA AND THE WORLD WIDE WEB ARE AS HOT AS RICKY Martin's mug. And Thomas Lin is the latest Latin bricks-and-mortar executive to jump on the Internet bandwagon. Lin [...]

Insurance fraud is becoming more commonplace in Latin America. Here's how to avoid it. DO DESPERATE TIMES CALL FOR DESPERATE MEASURES? IN ONE BRAZILIAN MAN'S mind they did. Last October, [...]

Mexico-made Cholula aims to become the hot sauce of choice north of the border. FOR THREE GENERATIONS, A FAMILY IN Chapala, an hour's drive from Guadalajara in western Mexico, quietly [...]

THE RACE FOR MEXICO'S JULY 2000 PRESIDENTIAL ELECtions has begun in earnest. In a sign of the changing times, representatives from ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) toured Texas to drum [...]

LATIN AMERICAN OIL COMPANIES HAVE LONG BEEN criticized for environmental abuses. Now they're getting hit in the United States as well. The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), a New York-based not-for-profit [...]

A U.S.-Mexico joint venture that builds homes for maquiladora workers is reducing turnover--and improving morale. THREE YEARS AGO, 24-YEAR-OLD ROSI LOYA WAS WORKING AT a maquiladora, or in-bond assembly plant, [...]

DENVER-BASED KN ENERGY IS SELLING OUT IN MEXICO, AND A host of companies are lining up to take over. Over the last five years, KN Energy has acquired considerable natural [...]