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Following the visit of US Vice President Kamala Harris to Guatemala, the business sector assures that in order to reduce illegal migration from Central America to the US, it is necessary to create a favorable and comfortable environment for local and foreign investment in the countries of the region.
As part of Harris' visit to Guatemala, Agexport prepared a document with proposals that reflect the experience it has accumulated over many years, incorporating Guatemalans and small rural businesses into export chains, generating income that allows them to remain in their territories.
Due to the dismissal of high ranking officials of the justice sector and the fact that President Bukele has strained his relationship with Washington, Salvadoran businessmen foresee an uncertain future for US investments that may come to the country.
After the dismissal of the magistrates of the Constitutional Chamber and the Attorney General in El Salvador, the business sector affirmed that this situation was "facts that consolidate an attack against democracy and threaten the liberties of Salvadorans."
With the opening of its first store, which will be located in the La California neighborhood of the country's capital, a chain of stores named "Oli!" will begin to compete in the local market in June 2021.
The new store chain will be operated by the local business group IMLC Group and will compete in a market segment that is dominated by AM PM, Corporacion Automercado, among other chains.
The Starbucks chain opened to the public a store located in Multiplaza Escazú, the new establishment has the capacity to receive 99 customers and required an investment of approximately $750 thousand.
Company executives informed that this new location is inspired by Hacienda Alsacia, the only Starbucks farm in the world, located in the Costa Rican province of Alajuela.
CABEI signed a memorandum of understanding with other Central American organizations to strengthen the development of the regional public debt market.
The agreement was signed by the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI), the Executive Secretariat of the Council of Finance Ministers of Central America, Panama and the Dominican Republic (SECOSEFIN), the Executive Secretariat of the Central American Monetary Council (SECMA) and the Association of Central American Stock Exchanges (BOLCEN).
The German Development and Investment Bank will grant a $19 million loan to Cooperativa de Productores de Leche Dos Pinos R.L., part of which will be invested in modernizing and expanding two production plants.
Other projects to be financed with the proceeds will include the renovation of the cold chain infrastructure and improving efficiency in the use of resources during the production process.
The Inter-American Development Bank approved two lines of credit totaling $500 million, resources that will be used by the Government to finance the public budget and policy reforms to ensure fiscal sustainability and maintain macroeconomic stability.
One of the approved lines incorporates contingency measures to increase spending related to the health emergency and targeted support to households and businesses affected by the crisis, informed the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).
Between March and April, Walmart opened five new stores of the Palí format, located in Heredia, San José, Alajuela, Cartago and Guanacaste.
The supermarket chain informed that the company invested close to $6.7 million to open these five new stores. With these recent openings, there are now 181 points of sale of the Palí format.
Empresa de Transmision Electrica de Panama warns that Bill 342, which was approved in the first debate in the Assembly, threatens the stability of the local electric sector by delaying and making it impossible for electric projects to enter into operation due to the lack of transmission lines.
In note No. ETE-DAL-029-2021, sent to the Committee of Commerce and Economic Affairs of the National Assembly of Deputies, ETESA's manager, Carlos Mosquera Castillo, warned the parliamentarians about the inconveniences of Bill 342 - recently approved in first debate - which repeals an article of the sole text of Law 6 of 1997, regarding the procedure for the use and acquisition of easements, explains an official statement.
In El Salvador during 2021, AES announced that it plans to invest between $60 and $75 million in the development of new solar energy projects and works in the distribution network.
President Laurentino Cortizo sanctioned the law that creates the National Authority for the Attraction of Investments and Promotion of Exports of Panama, an institution whose objective is to attract foreign investment to the country.
The law establishes the legal framework for the Investment Attraction and Export Promotion Agency (ProPanama) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to be elevated to an Authority, to give it greater sustainability and to execute, in a strategic and channeled manner, the different public-private efforts to attract investments and support the promotion of exports, informed the Presidency.
The rating agency decided to maintain at "B" the long-term and short-term local and foreign currency sovereign credit rating, with a negative outlook indicating the risk of a downgrade in case the Assembly does not approve an Extended Fund Facility or other policy measures.
In the current scenario, covering the government's large financing needs may require resorting to the central bank or other non-conventional financing, highlights the rating agency's analysis.
Due to the deterioration of fiscal indicators resulting from the severe economic impact of the pandemic, Moody's downgraded the Panama Canal Authority's senior unsecured debt rating from A1 to A2.
Given that the A2 rating is three notches above Panama's Baa2 sovereign rating, a rating upgrade is unlikely in the near term. An upgrade would require the ACP to continue to strengthen independently and Panama's sovereign rating to be upgraded, the rating agency said.
In order to increase its production capacity in El Salvador by 58%, Holcim will invest $20 million in the reactivation of the Maya Plant and in improvements to the El Ronco Plant.
The company currently has a production capacity of 1.2 million tons of cement per year, but with the reactivation of the plant located in Metapan and the improvements of the other industrial complex, they intend to increase its capacity to 1.9 million tons.