Generating a positive perception of the country, improving the relationship with the U.S. government and taking control of the penal centers are some of the actions highlighted by the business sector of El Salvador, regarding the first 100 days of the Bukele administration.
The time invested to meet requirements and obtain a response in a process in Salvadoran government institutions costs to the society more than $400 million a year.
According to data from the Regulatory Improvement Body (OMR), in El Salvador 90% of the costs incurred by users are the result of the time spent to meet the requirements for the procedure, and the remaining 10% corresponds to the waiting time for the response.
One of the decisions taken by Guatemalan businessmen with interests in Nicaragua is to suspend new investments until the situation in the country is normalized.
Due to the social and political situation that the country has been experiencing for more than three months, Guatemalan investors that operate companies in Nicaragua have been analyzing the situation closely, and are already taking measures to minimize the impact of the crisis on businesses. One of the decisions that some companies have taken is to reduce the cost of the operation to the lowest possible level, in order to maintain or reduce product inventories.
Six months after the vice president of El Salvador himself welcomed the company into the country, the transport authorities now say the service is illegal and intend to suspend it.
The Deputy Minister of Transportation, Nelson García, warned that they will start to fine and confiscate vehicles that are providing private transport services via the application, because it is considered illegal in the country.
"When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion–when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing–when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors–when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you–when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice–you may know that your society is doomed."
Business management is the resource which determines the success or failure of a business, and the quality of that management determines, unfailingly, the market.
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In Costa Ricaastate run bankand anagricultural cooperativehave once again been rescued from insolvency and the mismanagement of their managers, using, as it would not have been possible any other way, money belonging to taxpayers.
In El Salvador, the decision taken by the Sanchez Ceren administration not to attend the main business event in the country reveals either disinclination, inability to govern, or simple political manichaeism.
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Maybe it is a persistence of visualizing the world as it was in the last century, dividing it into two antagonistic parties, capital on the one hand and labour on the other.
The real entrepreneurs and CEOs do not need a state official, who will never be an entrepreneur, to tell them how to run a company and increase revenues.
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In Costa Rica, the government continues to believe that state officials can show employers how to do their job and how to generate wealth.
Having failed in its task of promoting favorable conditions in infrastructure, training and availability of human resources, access to credit and facilitating paperwork for the creation and growth of private enterprises, swift and effective commercial trade justice, the pachydermic state apparatus in Costa Rica continues to create bureaucratic organizations to "develop production" and obliterates others that yesterday were touted as the miracle food for the country's development. The new invention, this time from the Solis administration, is the Productive Development Agency, for Innovation and Added Value which of course already has a corresponding and always imaginative short name: FOMPRODUCE.
In the view of the business sector the implementation of a State of Emergency does not guarantee that the problem of insecurity and the escalation of violence affecting the country will be resolved.
From a statement issued by the National Association of Private Enterprise:
Given the alarming increase in killings and spread of crime throughout the country, the ANEP is joining the call for security of the population and wishes to state:
The best way to help maintain the best business climate is active militancy in defence of democratic institutions.
All citizens are part of the constitutional structure of government, and employers as such should be the first line of defence for democratic institutions.
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In Panama the news about "painful situations" occurring in the top echelons of state run power companies, a situation which unfortunately occurs frequently in the countries in our region, is undermining the institutions whose essence is to ensure democratic coexistence that provides security on the road to social and economic development.
From 16 to 18 of November businessmen and government representatives from Latin America will be gathering together at the IX Forum of the Americas on Competitiveness.
From a statement issued by om the Chamber of Industry of Guatemala:
Guatemala, September 22, 2015.- The public and private sectors of the Latin American region will be meeting in Guatemala from 16 to 18 November at the IX Forum of the Americas on Competitiveness, the most important business exchange space which will have more than 1000 attendees.
If Central America does not strengthen the institutions that ensure a stable legal framework and full respect for contracts, foreign investment will not come and national investment will go to other countries, no matter how many incentives and tax exemptions are offered.
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The frequent displays of discontent for the Salvadoran Executive Branch in respect to rulings issued by the Constitutional Court and the inaction of the Panamanian government over blockades by a group of people are holding not only over the hydroelectric project Barro Blanco, but also the main access roads, are appalling signals sent from the region to the world, casting doubt on those companies who consider the region to be a potential investment destination.
Trade unionists who promote it, the officials who estimate it, the rulers who decree it, are not part of the legion of unemployed who surely would work for less than the official minimum wage.
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The unemployed have no voice, in principle because they do not pay a sindical fee, and if they did have one, they would not raise it, because it feels devoid of the dignity necessary to do so, because they are used to adopting a very humble position in job interviews. Nothing further impoverishes the human spirit that lack of gainful income of one form or another.
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