The Economist
Friday, February 18, 2011 - 00:00
Not only has the United States Congress failed to ratify a free-trade agreement signed in 2006, but this month it failed to renew trade preferences dating from the 1990s.
Friday, February 18, 2011 - 00:00
Ms Rousseff badly needs to get a grip on government spending.
Friday, February 18, 2011 - 00:00
Ms Rousseff is a very different person from Lula. Lacking his star quality, she has shunned the limelight. But what she has so far said and done has been clear and welcome.
Thursday, February 17, 2011 - 00:00
Carlos Fuentes, a celebrated Mexican novelist, told a radio station that Mr Sarkozy was acting like a dictador bananero (the dictator of a banana republic) by trying to influence Mexico's criminal justice system.
Wednesday, February 2, 2011 - 00:00
The idea of hundreds of billions of dollars of what politicians will see as "free" money, available to spend on such necessities as vote-buying, turns my stomach.
Monday, January 31, 2011 - 00:00
The alliance of the PAN, a conservative party strongly influenced by the Catholic church, with the PRD, which includes many former communists, is ideologically awkward to say the least,
Friday, January 28, 2011 - 00:00
Opinion polls vary widely, but all show the PRI with a lead (of up to 20 points) over the conservative National Action Party (PAN).
Friday, January 28, 2011 - 00:00
With the price of gold close to record levels, and with government action having reduced the guerrillas' income from kidnapping and drugs, some FARC fronts are now financing themselves through illegal mining.
Friday, January 21, 2011 - 00:00
The United States now ranks second to Canada as a source of visitors, even though direct flights have been allowed only from Miami, New York and Los Angeles.
Friday, January 21, 2011 - 00:00
One conspiracy theory holds that his arrival was arranged by Mr Preval as a coded threat to outsiders that rather than contemplate the defeat of his chosen successor he might arrange the return of a more popular exiled former president, Jean-Bertrand Aris