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World Service,23 May 2024,17 mins

Latin America’s success stories

Business Daily

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Across the region, there are examples of economic success stories: countries, companies and people that are getting things right, transforming their local economies and bringing prosperity to the region. We go to Peru, where fruit producers are enjoying a blueberry boom. We hear from Uruguay, which generates almost all its electricity from renewable energy, and we visit a factory Mexico that’s benefiting from “nearshoring” and the country’s proximity to the United States. We talk to two female entrepreneurs – one from Chile and one from Colombia – on how the ecosystem for start-ups has evolved in their countries and the exciting possibilities the region has to offer. Produced and presented by Gideon Long (Image: Close-up on a worker loading baskets of blueberries on a truck at a plantation. Credit: Getty Images)

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