Latin America not immune to US debt deal

While much has been written about the fact that Latin America’s rapidly growing economies are largely immune to US financial woes, President Obama’s deal with Congress to avoid a US debt default will have a negative impact throughout the region.
Granted, the consequences would have been much worse if the US government had failed to reach an agreement — even a bad one, as the one it reached — and the United States had lost its AAA credit rating.

Still, the US debt agreement, scheduled to cut the