Tim Padgett
Monday, August 22, 2011 - 00:00
So this summer Rousseff, who took office in January, has embarked on the kind of anti-corruption campaign that many wish her popular predecessor, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, had taken up during his eight years in office.
Friday, August 12, 2011 - 00:00
It's the U.S. that's playing the kind of dysfunctional, zero-sum politics that poisons economies and finances; it's Latin America that's moving to the political center and finding the successful compromises between capitalism and socialism.
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 - 00:00
In its ruling, the IFE tribunal insisted that it's "protecting the secularism of the state." But does a political proclamation by a religious group really threaten the secularism of a state?.
Friday, July 8, 2011 - 00:00
Illegal immigration is better tackled inside Mexico, at its source, than by building multi-billion-dollar walls along the border.
Thursday, July 7, 2011 - 00:00
If Chavez's recent absence reminded the western hemisphere of anything, it was that his socialist, anti-U.S. Bolivarian Revolution relies too much on Venezuela's comandante and not enough on its Constitution.
Friday, July 1, 2011 - 00:00
If in the end he can't run, there are few likely successors inside his United Socialist Party other than perhaps his older brother Adan, 58, a devout Marxist.
Thursday, June 30, 2011 - 00:00
The harder task is changing a culture that was centuries in the making. "Mexico's biggest problem," says Sicilia's lawyer, Julio Hernandez, "is still the problem that leads to all its other problems: impunity."
Tuesday, June 28, 2011 - 00:00
Whatever Chavez's prognosis is, his hospital hiatus in Cuba has raised questions about the condition of his socialist Bolivarian revolution.
Thursday, June 23, 2011 - 00:00
It's no coincidence that 70% of Hondurans live in poverty or that the richest tenth of its population owns almost half its wealth.
Thursday, June 16, 2011 - 00:00
I'm not a knee-jerk booster of free trade agreements, especially after watching what NAFTA did to Mexican farmers. But in this case, at this point, congressional inaction would be a shame.