Juan Forero
Monday, January 16, 2012 - 00:00
Demographers say the fertility rate is declining because the country is richer and more urban, but they also point to Brazil's hugely popular soap operas and their portrayal of small, glamorous families
Monday, January 9, 2012 - 00:00
But Ecuador, Nicaragua and Cuba have small economies with little to offer Tehran as it searches for a tangible way to ease the impact of American sanctions. And Venezuela imports mainly from its neighbors while exporting oil, like Iran
Tuesday, January 3, 2012 - 00:00
The global economic downturn is starting to affect Brazil, but the country has not nearly been as hard-hit as Europe and the U.S. The emerging economy is enticing to young, highly trained and educated workers
Thursday, December 15, 2011 - 00:00
Rousseff appears to be touching a chord at the right time. Brazilians are asking why their surging country — which is set to soon become the world’s sixth-largest economy, overtaking Britain — should put up with the rot in the halls of power
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 - 00:00
Now, in a role reversal, the IMF's new director, Christine Lagarde, is seeking assistance from a new Latin America - one with fast-growing economies and big foreign reserves
Monday, December 5, 2011 - 00:00
"Instead of sending people to jail, whoever they may be, we change the name of the institution and think we have resolved the problem"
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - 00:00
The government has officially recorded 1,050 kidnappings this year, 23 times as many as took place in President Hugo Chavez's first year in office, 1999. But household surveys by the National Statistics Institute, a state entity, suggest that thousands mo
Monday, November 7, 2011 - 00:00
The death of the supreme commander of Colombia's main rebel group leaves his organization temporarily rudderless, its far-flung units ever more disunited and its commanders painfully conscious of the improved capabilities of the armed forces, analysts and
Monday, October 31, 2011 - 00:00
Political analysts note that the election of a leftist, one who is generally critical of the business community, is a blow to the FARC
Monday, October 31, 2011 - 00:00
The monthly pricing index is used by workers negotiating wage hikes, companies planning investments and the International Monetary Fund in Washington. Bevacqua believes that her work — which calculated inflation two to three times higher than the govern