The Economist
Friday, August 16, 2013 - 00:00
His release seems to have caught President Enrique Pena Nieto's administration by surprise, too, but is awkward nonetheless.
Wednesday, August 14, 2013 - 00:00
With inflation stuck around 25%, a ban on foreign-currency exchange and news reports implicating Kirchner in a multi-million dollar money-laundering ring, the president's approval ratings have plunged.
Friday, August 9, 2013 - 00:00
At the meeting on August 6th, she unabashedly pressed Argentina's claim over the Falklands.
Friday, August 9, 2013 - 00:00
Evidence of huge rip-offs at the heart of the "Bolivarian revolution" has unleashed political infighting.
Friday, August 9, 2013 - 00:00
The polls have a silver living for Ms Rousseff and her Workers' Party (PT). Despite her problems, most of her opponents have failed to make much progress.
Friday, August 9, 2013 - 00:00
Latin American presidents have taken to tweeting with gusto.
Thursday, August 8, 2013 - 00:00
The opposition will also be aware that further efforts to reverse the presidential election result will fail, and that they need to look to the future and focus on the December local elections.
Tuesday, August 6, 2013 - 00:00
The country's latest demonstrations have an air of modernity about them, a faint whiff of the discontents of an aspirational lower-middle class that have recently shaken Chile and Brazil.
Friday, July 26, 2013 - 00:00
The left's weakness in Colombia owes much to the ambiguous position it has historically taken towards political violence and armed struggle. Today, much of that ambiguity has gone.
Friday, July 19, 2013 - 00:00
This was more a victory in the war on violence than in the war on drugs. But with murders still almost double their level of six years ago, a long road lies ahead.