Latin America Business 2014: Best Quotes
The best quotes of
the year in Latin America business.
BY LATINVEX STAFF
The editorial staff of Latinvex selects the best quotes of the year relating to
Latin America business.
Choosing Joaquim
Levy as finance minister in a PT government is like naming the CIA chief
to head the KGB
Aecio Neves, who almost defeated Brazil’s
president Rousseff in October’s elections, on the naming of Levy as Brazil’s
finance minister.
If only one [airline] is left, then there
will be only one.
Venezuelan President
Nicolas Maduro on international carriers cutting Venezuela flights as a result
of being owed billions of dollars by his government.
I
know the winner. May God have mercy on us.
Panama's outgoing president Ricardo
Martinelli on president-elect Juan Carlos Varela, as quoted by Reuters, May 5,
2014
This is sheer nonsense. It makes us wonder if he is lying...or doesn't know what he is doing.
Paul Hoffmeister, a senior analyst for investment research firm Bretton Woods Research, on Argentina's economy minister Axel Kicillof's comments that pesos were not dependent upon the official rate, as quoted by Forbes, January 29, 2014.
Poor Dilma Rousseff. Brazil's president projects the tedious aura of the efficiency of Angela Merkel, except with the delivery of the Marx brothers.
Financial Times editorial on Rousseff's failures on the preparations for the World Cup and 2016 Olympics and links to a Petrobras corruption scandal and growing energy problems, May 4, 2014
They're acting like a wounded animal in a corner.
Jorge Mariscal, chief investment officer for
emerging markets at UBS Wealth Management,
on Argentina's erratic behavior, as quoted by Bloomberg, June 19, 2014.
If Maduro wants to
find who’s guilty, he should look in the mirror.
Venezuelan economist Ricardo Hausmann, on Facebook,
December 14, 2014, rejecting Maduro blaming him and Moises Naim for ruining the
country’s economy.
This may change
the country forever.
President Dilma Rousseff on the corruption probe of
Petrobras.
The referees screw us over two-thirds of the time with terrible bias.
Argentine President Cristina Fernandez, commenting on the US Supreme Court rejection of Argentina's appeal, as quoted by Reuters, June 24, 2014.
No country ever
became prosperous by hounding foreign corporations in kangaroo courts.
Wall Street Journal columnist Brett Stevens on the
Chevron-Ecuador case, October 28, 2014
It
sort of underscores that she lives in a world of her own more and more.
Felipe Noguera, a political analyst, on the
announcement by Argentine President Fernandez that she didn't watch the World Cup final
between Argentina and Germany, as quoted by Reuters, July 15, 2014.
There seems to be an ill mood toward Brazil today. I don't know why.
Brazil President Dilma Rousseff, explaining why the
economy is slowing down,
as quoted by Reuters, June 4, 2014.
I
can't imagine a better job.
Claudio Porcel, head of asset management firm Balanz
Capital Sociedad de Bolsa, on Argentina's next president facing a rebound and investor boom, as quoted by Bloomberg.
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