Chavez Sours Latin American Investment Climate.

The investment climate in Latin America's grain sector has been soured by Venezuela's seizure of a rice mill owned by U.S. agribusiness giant Cargill, but major democracies in the region will remain attractive over the long term. [. . .]

"Some countries are not at all antagonistic to foreign investment but they're not getting it at the moment anyhow, and not just because of what's happening in Argentina and Venezuela, and to a certain extent Ecuador and Bolivia," said Sidney Weintraub, senior economist at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.

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