The Latin America Advisor sat down with Shelly Shetty, co-head of Americas sovereign ratings at Fitch Ratings. We asked her: How susceptible are Latin American economies to the coronavirus outbreak? With the U.S.-China trade war sorting out and USMCA now signed, is there an upside for Latin America and the Caribbean? And, what will 2020 hold for Latin American countries and their sovereign ratings?
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What are the reasons behind the workers’ strikes in Mexico, and will there be more labor strife in the period ahead? How powerful are unions in Mexico’s manufacturing sector? Will proposed changes in the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement alter the business-labor dynamics in the country?
Two months in, is military support for Maduro starting to waver, and is the opposition losing momentum?
Are the central bank and President Andrés Manuel López Obrador taking the right actions to spur the economy?
