The stock market has been volatile, to say the least, for much of this year, as investors follow each bit of news about the finances of countries in the euro zone. Some investors, looking for an alternative, have started to consider Latin America, Paul Sullivan writes in his Wealth Matters column this week — quite a turn of events since the 1990s and early 2000s, when countries there were in dire financial straits.

The question now, he writes, is whether Latin America’s economies are now on solid footing or whether they’re in the midst of a boom and bust cycle, typical of the past.

Have you looked at Latin American investments lately? The investment strategists he spoke to agreed that investors there had to keep their eyes open. What do you think?

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