October is out!

It's our big forecast issue, and this time around we focused on sectors rather than major economies for the feature well.

How do you write about the future? Well, as our able correspondents show, it's a matter of talking to the industrial sources, rather than talking heads and pundits. Daniel Joelson does this well in his take on the IT sector, as does Brazil Correspondent Margarida Pfeifer, on auto production. Departed intern Alex Ragir does the same with telecom. Cut through the PR, put people on the record, file your story. That's journalism.

Spanish Editor Andrés F. Velázquez has a very nice piece on downtown Quito's rebirth. It's sometimes hard to come up with good travel story ideas, but this one nails it: A destination, a business angle and good sourcing too.

Marisol Rueda, our Mexico Correspondent, comes up aces again with a short piece on what's happening to all that remittance money heading south from USA. She landed another nice one in her reporting on the rise of industrial parks in Mexico. Turns out it's not just low interest rates and trade, our initial assumption, but foreign governments with cash to invest. Anyone who says Asia's rise is all bad news for Latin America just doesn't understand global economics.

Finally, Brazil Editor Carlos Adese pulled together on a recent trip south what is perhaps the best story of its kind: a real, palpable trend item. Volkswagen in Brazil figured its operations there were so unique, and so functional, that the best move is to export the concept, lock, stock and barrel, to the rest of the emerging world. Excellent, behind-the-scenes stuff you just won't find anywhere else.