MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Pacific Alliance again shows its trade growth muscle in 2012
The Alliance of the Pacific, Chile, Peru, Colombia and Mexico, has again given evidence of its potential in Latinamerica: total exports in 2012 reached 556 billion dollars and imports 551 billion, which means the four countries consolidated concentrate 50% of the continent’s foreign trade. Read full article
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Sep 06th, 2013 - 02:17 am - Link - Report abuse 0It is just starting.
The journalist missed out in the last paragraph the comparable per capita GDP of Argentina and Brasil - US$11.400
Sep 06th, 2013 - 05:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0No argument with the tenor of the article, however.
@1
Sep 06th, 2013 - 10:12 am - Link - Report abuse 0Of which 90% is border trade between USA and Mexico, which existed LONG before Pacific alliance.
What a way for you and Mercopress to delude yourselves.
Chile is so rich that is not able to give its own people free aducation, Perú
Sep 06th, 2013 - 10:25 am - Link - Report abuse 027 % of its population below poverty line, Colombia 45 % of its population below poverty line (drug traffickers are the rich ones), Mexico 51% of its population below poverty line (drug cartels rule the country). The mediocrity of this arcticle should be the reason to fire its author.
@Gonzo
Sep 06th, 2013 - 12:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Where in the article does it say that Chile is rich?
You should get some “aducation”.
@Toby
“Of which 90% is border trade between USA and Mexico”
Did INDEC tell you that?
No doubt who is deluded.
You know the article is true when the likes of TTT and Gonzo22 post against it.
Sep 06th, 2013 - 12:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The Dark Country: sidelined again!
@4 and the number below the poverty line in rgenweener is? Well blow me it's 32% and you have no drug cartels (apparently) gonzo shut up and stop digging your self a hole numbnuts. However there is a statement that sums it up. “The excellent performance of the group is also supported with the open markets attitude of the group: Chile has trade agreements with over sixty countries; Colombia and Mexico have 12 free trade agreements with 30 and 40 markets worldwide, while Peru 15 with over fifty countries”.
Sep 06th, 2013 - 05:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And rgenweener has Iran and China, crack on mate your doing a great job for your people. No wonder your SA mate's are deserting you like a sinking ship, welcome to the real world, wake up and do something about it, and by that I don't mean WHINGE, pay your debts and grow a bit of dignity
And posting one after the other to boot.
Sep 06th, 2013 - 05:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0But nice to see delusion is alive and well in the 'free education system' of Argentina. Free obviously doesn't mean quality.
The Pacific Alliance members have stable currencies, high growth, acceptable inflation, statistics people believe and reducing poverty levels.
Argentina would love to have a single one of them.
Let alone all of them.
@8 they'd like a sniff of them but it ain't going to happen till they change the tune
Sep 06th, 2013 - 06:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Most cocaine/meth to EU moves through Argentina now. Rosario is a battleground for the drug lords.
Sep 06th, 2013 - 07:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0From what I understand the Ks control the meth/cocaine trade.
There is a very good chance CFK will end up in a USA jail as the leader of a narco state.
That's if they don't ”retire' her first.
Is easy to see the differences between the two blocks, in one side ; steady progress, open trade, economical growth, respect for the rules, serious efforts to improve living standars of its inhabitants and in the other hand we may see corruption, mass stealing, recession, closed markets and worse of all use of the state as a paying political favors machine, but the worese of all is the lot of deluded muppets in this forum that still believe the hopes in their lost future. Sad for them.
Sep 06th, 2013 - 10:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@4 giving 'education' away for 'free' makes the State incur costs which fall on its people,, making them poorer, and the quality leaves them ignorant. Welfare maintains poverty, it does not stop it.
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