April is out!

Excellent April edition, thanks to some tricky deadline work from a number of hard-working correspondents. Take a look at our first attempt at the new Hot 50. We asked our correspondents to track down contacts at all 50 companies and they came through big!

Bill Hinchberger did a nice job on the Brazil outlook, complete with a Davos dateline.

A notable debut in our pages from Eduardo Coronado in Chile, on the billion-dollar doings of Chile's wild retail market.

Ken Rapoza was all over the book, but it was his travelogue/complaint piece on bossa nova that really helped define our travel section this month.

Finally, our Spanish Editor, Andrés F. Velázquez, was on the road again, this time to Panama, where he spent some quality time with newly elected President Martín Torrijos. Very nice work, indeed. Look for more presidential chit-chat from Andres in coming issues.