GLOSSARY GLOSSARY


ACP – Autoridad del Canal de Panamá Panamanian governmental agency charged with maintaining and expanding the Panama Canal


ANCAP – Administración Nacional de Combustibles, Alcoholes y Portland


Uruguay’s national oil company


ANEEL – Agência Nacional de Energia Elétrica Brazil’s Electricity Regulatory Agency


ANH Agencia Nacional de Hidrocarburos Colombia


Banorte – Banco Mercantil del Norte The principal subsidiary of Grupo Financiero Banorte, the largest domestically held bank in Mexico


BNDES – Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social


Brazilian Development Bank, National Bank for Economic and Social Development


CEF – Caixa Econômica Federal Brazil’s Federal Savings Bank


CEMAR – Companhia Energética do Maranhão Power distribution company providing service to Brazil’s state of Maranhão


COALIANZA – Comisión para la Promoción de la Alianza Público- Privada


Commission for the Promotion of Public-Private Partnership


Codelco – Corporacion Nacional del Cobre de Chile The biggest global copper producer by volume, owned by the Chilean government


ICE – Instituto Costarricence de Electricidad Costa Rican Energy Institute


ICSID International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes


IDB Inter-American Development Bank


LNG Liquefied Natural Gas


PAC – Programa de Acelerecão do Crescimento Brazil’s Growth Acceleration Program


Petrobras – Petroleo Brasileiro Semi-private Brazilian oil producer and one of the world’s largest companies


PDVSA – Petróleos de Venezuela Oil and natural gas company owned by the Venezuelan government


Pemex – Petróleos Mexicanos Mexico’s national petroleum company


PPA Power Purchase Agreement


PPP Public Private Partnership


SPV Special Purpose Vehicle STF – Supremo Tribunal Federal Brazil’s Supreme Court


Stream Funding The selling of resources, particularly in mining, before extraction


YPFB Refinación Bolivia’s nationalized oil refining firm


YPF – Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Argentine State-owned oil company


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