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Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay

Cityscape Latin America - Sao Paulo  November 4-6, 2008

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Try Search: Global CRE (commercial real estate)

Economic development agencies are encouraged to reply to our free GUIDE Network Survey to share information about their areas.

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Brazil

Reference maps for Brazil

Contacts

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Websites

See Google Maps for the greater Sao Paulo region

and for the city of Sao Paulo  and downtown areas .

Try zooming in from this satellite image for perspective.

Note the Industrial Airport at the Tancredo Neves International Airport as a special economic zone for investment

promotes business investment in Minas Gerais

www.saopaulo.sp.gov.br/ingles/saopaulo/index.htm

Contacts

GDI:Bruce

•  Organizations are generally sorted in postal code order so that locations which are geographically close to each other will usually (not always) be grouped together.  This is a selective directory, even though the state directory is more comprehensive than the very selective one we will maintain at the regional level to highlight the organizations which support our work or are found to be of frequent interest for the convenience of the executives and business advisors we serve.
•  Scope : is the area served by the organization, and postal code.  We may include thumbnail maps which expand to show information about participating areas, or link directly to good maps or GIS research tools on the organization's website.
•  Contacts : If there is a working relationship through our various GUIDE services, we also list the key organization contact, phone, and optional e-mail.
•  Website and other resources : Aside from the main website link, we may include other direct links to highlight special features of expected interest to executives, especially if they might not be readily noticed by just visiting the website.  A good example of this is when relevant content is actually maintained somewhere else, such as a regional website rather than the local one, so that one would otherwise need to know to follow the available links between the websites.

•  Survey : areas which have responded to our GUIDE Network Survey, with a link to their response for convenience if published (optional) and highlighted at the top.  This is often useful as an executive summary at the "long list" stage of location selection.
•  Profile : participates in our GUIDE Area Profile service (also highlighted at the top of the page).  This involves a closer working relationship to maintain more timely and detailed knowledge of the area throughout the year, and also involves a more detailed executive summary on the website, with many relevant links.  If there are significant incentives in the area, we may also link to a GUIDE Incentives Profile.
•  Report : this is used to highlight independent research about the area, such as directories of available sites and buildings, or consultant reports about the area such as labor market studies, cost comparisons, local market analysis, etc.

Executives are also encouraged to respond to our free Executive Survey (download Adobe PDF copy) which helps us to continuously improve.

The selections are simply intended to be helpful to executives who may be unaware of such contacts, or how to reach their websites quickly.  Please contact us directly for relevant introductions or any additional contacts, market knowledge, and research which we don't publish.

Please contact us for project assistance.  Related services support global B2B technology partnering.  Refer also to our Bookshelf suggestions. 

The following additional sources of information are included here for ease of reference in case they may be helpful.  Refer also to the list of US Government and related information sources for this or other regions.  Have you found other good sources, or local contacts for economic development and investment support?  If so, please tell us so that we may share them with others.

www.dpr.mre.gov.br/Aceso/investimentos.asp

www.brasiltradenet.gov.br

http://www.redegazeta.com.br

www.wnc.dialog.com  - for subscription requests

www.nbcuni.com

www.voa.gov   www.voanews.com

http://www.martinoticias.com/radio.asp

http://www.martinoticias.com/tv.asp

Other publications include the O Globo newspaper in Rio de Janeiro, the Diário de São Paulo newspaper, Valor Econômico business newspaper, and other radio, satellite, cable TV, and print publications.  It also operates TV Globo Internacional, which reaches many Brazilians in the USA, Europe, Japan and other countries, and is responsible for the Sky TV Brasil satellite network in Brazil.

www.globo.com   for the media group

www.oglobo.globo.com  for the newspaper O Globo (Rio de Janeiro)

There has been widespread concern - not just in the US - that Telesur will largely become another propaganda mouthpiece for Chavez, like the VTV Venezuela state television, as a sort of Latin American version of Al Jazeera, taking a populist line of bashing the United States rather than providing serious and reliable, independent regional news coverage.  The region has a long tradition of state-controlled or dominated media and unreliable or very biased private news media too, both on the left and the right.

In this context, it remains to be seen whether Telesur can even attract and maintain an audience, although there is certainly a well-established market for populist, anti-American rhetoric.  As Al Jazeera and newspaper tabloids around the world have shown, populist programming that professional journalists may deride as unethical can attract an audience and be politically influential, but viewers who are familiar with state-controlled media don't readily believe all the things they are told.  The steady repetition of clever propaganda, however, makes it much harder for people to tell the truth from the lies and distortions.

Given funding such as oil wealth which is not tied to competitive performance as a news or TV broadcaster, however, Telesur seems likely to persist and be influential regardless of market success by the standards of countries which expect to have very competitive and independent private news media free of government control of the media.  There is a difference between simply not being an overt propaganda channel for Chavez at first - to gain some credibility - and actually having the courage to report a contrary point of view fairly.

This section will be used  for convenience to highlight major corporate real estate firms with operations in the region.

See also the global CRE list, which can be used to find local offices of firms which may not be highlighted below.

We may also provide selective major property listings for the region, with links to the real estate firms and agents involved.

Oncor International

- Fernandez Mera, for Brazil

- Toribio Achaval Propiedades, for Argentina (no website listed yet)

www.oncorintl.com

www.fernandezmera.com.br

Includes Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Peru, Venezuela

This section will be used to highlight major firms within the region, as well as global firms with significant experience in the region.

See also the selective global lists of location consultants and project management services.

This section will be used to highlight major firms within the region, as well as global firms with significant experience in the region.

See also the selective global lists of tax advisors and international legal advisors.