Interruption is common in Latin America. The last decade. Only NAFTA left two million Mexican farmers without work and another million factory workers were fired from 1995 to 1998. The interruption of the Mexican economy, thanks to the NAFTA combined with the peso crisis, has much less attention from the press that the 850,000 jobs lost in the United States in the years after the start of NAFTA.
The most common interruptions attack the competitive weaknesses of important sectors. Inactive assets, whether equipment, real estate or people, are a major source of waste. Many people own cars and houses that are unoccupied for long periods of time, for example, Uber and Airbnb drivers on the supply side, respectively. The same principle of sharing economy can be applied to underutilized boats, construction equipment and private aircraft. Too much overhead (real estate and inventory) is the reason why Latam retail is vulnerable to electronic commerce. But the same weakness can be found in the universities and colleges of Latin America.