Features Latin America

Since its first known use in Polynesia more than 3,000 years ago, cane sugar has fueled and transformed the world, sparked wars and built empires—even altered human evolution, by helping our bodies better store fat. In 2017, the world produced more than 170 million metric tons of the granulated sweetener, the per-pound equivalent of 85 […]

Each day, more than 70,000 people traverse the four pedestrian footbridges connecting El Paso, Texas, and Mexico’s Ciudad Juarez. But the biggest link of all might be the one running just beneath the ground below. Namely: miles of fiber-optic cable—and all the terabits of data coursing within—designed to bring organizations on both sides closer than […]

WOM launched four years ago with a series of edgy, contemporary ads: scantily-clad women trading blows in a boxing ring; young executives flinging contracts and clothes from office windows; female drummers in haute couture rocking out; welders, assembly line workers and toll-takers literally breaking out of the confines of their professions. The goal was to […]

La Transformación Digital se ha convertido en una estrategia corporativa alrededor del mundo. Esta maniobra hace que las empresas sean más competitivas, modernizando sus procesos de producción y comercialización, pero sobre todo contribuye a mejorar la interacción con clientes, ofreciéndoles una mayor y mejor experiencia para satisfacer sus necesidades. Para Antonio Treviño, Chief Information Officer […]

Even at a relatively large company, an IT director might have 20 people in his or her charge. Fifty, tops. Keeping an eye on 100 people? Maybe if it’s Take Your Child to Work Day. Arnulfo Villalba oversees that many charges each and every day—plus another 20. To be sure, given the size and scope […]

In the uptime department of Navistar’s Mexico City offices, an employee scrolls through the truck repair database and immediately catches a red flag. One of the company’s ProStar trucks has been in a Guadalajara shop for four days—a day longer than expected. Within a few clicks, they’ve uncovered the reason for the delay: a hard-to-find […]

There’s no hyper-technological term for it, just “single view of the customer.” Or anyway that’s the label that Chief Information Officer Benjamin Ernesto Hernandez has given his next major initiative in the info-tech department of Mexico’s leading airline carrier. Now in his second go-around with Aeromexico—he’s been CIO since 2012—Hernandez remembers a time when the […]

Bruno Miyamotto doesn’t have to stretch his memory too far to remember when the role of a chief technology officer was 20 percent software-related and 80 percent the human element. So rapidly are these percentages shifting that he and his colleagues anticipate a complete reversal. Likely within the next few years, the multilingual Miyamotto tells […]

The trademark of a successful corporate lawyer? It’s not just legal and business savvy, answers Carlos Landazabal Angeli, who, since November 2012, has served as General Electric’s legal leader for South America’s Andean region, as well as Central America and the Caribbean. Anticipation is just as important, the soft-spoken general counsel tells Vanguard from his […]

For as long as the earth’s tectonic plates have been shifting—read: a very long time—humans and other creatures have been affected by earthquakes. And while the phenomena typically last mere seconds, their destruction can be catastrophic and widespread: recent earthquakes have killed hundreds of thousands of people and leveled landscapes across Nepal, Haiti, Japan, Mexico […]