All aboard...

What is the point of this Web site? Well, my hope is that it will be an effective way to communicate to our 45+ correspondents from Buenos Aires to Beijing what works in the pages of Latin Trade and how to get your ideas turned into great stories.

To that end, the editors in the list on the first page, to the right -- News Editor Forrest Jones, Spanish Editor Andrés F. Velázquez and Brazil Editor Carlos Adese -- will on occasion hold forth, probably in their respective languages, on individual stories and writers. More soon...