Guatemala: Great Potential, Poor Packaging

Representation of Guatemala’s potential to attract foreign direct investment and become a regional hub for economic growth and logistics.

In 2011, Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi called Beijing with a simple proposal: give me four billion dollars, I will build a 756-kilometer railway, and I will repay it with the exports that railway makes possible. In 2016, five years later, the railway was inaugurated and began operations in 2018. Ethiopia—landlocked, recently emerging from civil […]