Latin capital is on a historical fork: the decisions taken between 2025 and 2030 about homeownership, immigration fluxes and social impact models are going to determine if the latin wealth is going to convert into real economic power or if it stills vulnerable to exclusion cycles. The real question isn’t if it’s going to happen, but when, where and who’s going to lead this change.
Let's talk about Paraguay, for example. In 2025, the country PIB reached US$49,2 billion, a growth of 6,6% compared to 2024, according to Paraguay’s Central Bank. Lately, the country has been a target to companies that wish to invest, becoming a legal mark to external investments. This happens because of the previsible economy, stable politics, one of the lowest tax burdens on the region, one of the cheapest electric power on the continent and huge incentive to companies from other countries.
When we talk about investment, last year was emblematic, the foreign investment reached a record of US$1,18 billion, representing a growth of 7,6% over the US$1,097 billion in 2024, according to Cepal.
This investors movement put Latin America on the map. From that, the countries started to be considered to receive investments, as well it starts to be relevant by investing in other places.
Before, the wealth was closely attached to their origin country, thinking about foreign investments was a distant reality. Not only for less knowledge, but also for a lack of access and technology that could make this contact possible. As the invest mode developed, more people started to consider investing abroad and in other coins as a possibility. Now, the Latin American countries started to stand out.
The Capgemini World Wealth Report showed that the number of millionaires in the world is growing more each year, that includes LATAM countries. Besides the patrimonial security increase and the assets valuation, the money produced on the continent is rediscovering the borders.
So other Latin American countries can develop in the same way Paraguay did, it’s important to understand that the decisions taken now are going to impact directly on how the world sees the monetary power that those countries have. Investing in lasting measures can change the monetary movement.
When we talk about Paraguay, we talk about the country that created incentive laws to investors, that seems to protect and assure the capital investment on industry or other productive activities on national territory. We’re also talking about the country that exempt taxes for: funding, capital goods, specialized technical assistance, mining, hotel business, leasing, general transportation service, healthy, radio, television, press, telephony, scientific research, silos, storage and data transmission services (according to the Paraguay consulate in Brazil).
It is measures like those that have real social impact. With this, it encourages homeownership and immigration fluxes that results in Paraguayan territory as one of the most relevants between the Latin Americans in this regard.
However, these other countries' investors are redrawing the way of applying their fortunes. That's why, the trend is that the world starts to see and value latin money. The continent is showing wealth and unique investment power, that has what it takes to grow and be on the spotlight with family offices and real impact.
About Cristiano Maschio
Cristiano Maschio is the founder of DCEX Financial Services, a financial infrastructure and real asset tokenization company based in Miami (USA), with executive education from Wharton, Oxford, and MIT Sloan. A researcher of global capital flows and tokenization as an access pathway to real assets in Latin America, he is the author of the working paper trilogy "The Capital That Migrates," "The Capital That Decides," and "The Capital That Builds" (2026).
