Jerry Haar is a professor of international business at Florida International University, a faculty fellow at Georgetown University’s Baratta Center on Global Business, and a senior fellow of the Council on Competitiveness. Ricardo Ernst is the Baratta Chair in Global Business and Professor of Operations and Global Supply Chains, Director of the Baratta Center for Global Business, Managing Director of the Latin American Leadership Program, and former Deputy Dean, all at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University, USA. Santiago Gutierrez is the Latin Trade Group´s Executive Editor and CEO of Editora Latin Trade, a 28 year-old news and information service.