Simon Romero
Tuesday, May 13, 2014 - 06:03
True to his laid-back style, Mr. Mujica, a 78-year-old former guerrilla who has farmed chrysanthemums for a living, did not wear a tie to the White House.
Tuesday, April 15, 2014 - 00:00
Reinforcing Sao Paulo’s status as Brazil’s premier global city, Asians, largely from China, Africans and Spanish-speaking Latin Americans are flowing in.
Monday, April 14, 2014 - 00:00
The World Cup projects are just a part of a bigger national problem casting a pall over Brazil's grand ambitions: an array of lavish projects conceived when economic growth was surging that now stand abandoned, stalled or wildly over budget.
Monday, March 3, 2014 - 00:00
Normally clocking 15-hour days as he tears up and rebuilds parts of Rio in the most far-reaching overhaul of the city in decades, Mr. Paes is finding that consensus over his plans is elusive
Friday, January 24, 2014 - 00:00
The sharp decline, with the peso dropping the most since Argentina’s 2002 financial crisis, raises concerns that inflation could accelerate even further
Tuesday, January 21, 2014 - 00:00
Called rolezinhos (little strolls) in the slang of São Paulo’s streets, the rowdy gatherings may be going beyond mere flash mobs to touch on issues of public space and entitlement
Friday, January 10, 2014 - 00:00
“Pinochet was tormented by an intense inferiority complex, which he tried to deal with by collecting books"
Thursday, January 9, 2014 - 00:00
Security forces tried to assert control at the end of December, prompting a brutal response by some inmates, who apparently ordered retaliatory attacks
Monday, December 16, 2013 - 00:00
If Ms. Bachelet, a 62-year-old pediatrician, is able to advance her proposals, Chile, one of the region's first countries to aggressively expose its economy to market forces in the 1970s and 1980s, may once again be seen as a laboratory for policy experim
Wednesday, December 11, 2013 - 00:00
Uruguay’s Senate approved pioneering legislation on Tuesday that will allow the country to legalize the cultivation and sale of marijuana on a nationwide scale.