The Huffington Post
Monday, February 8, 2010 - 00:00
Costa Ricans have elected their first woman president as the ruling party candidate won in a landslide after campaigning to continue free market policies
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 - 00:00
Why do they care so much about who runs these poor countries? As any good chess player knows, pawns matter.
Monday, February 1, 2010 - 00:00
The lenses that McGovern uses to read Colombia are those of human rights. To him, the promotion of a culture and practice of human rights is essential even for achieving security, and lay the foundation for lasting peace.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 00:00
In the sprawling Cite Soleil slum, gangsters are settling into the haunts they dominated before being locked up and resuming struggles for control that never really ended
Friday, January 15, 2010 - 00:00
Obama is determined to show that the United States, even consumed with its own troubles, can get this right. And that he can too
Friday, January 8, 2010 - 00:00
Unfortunately, Obama's "change you can believe in" soon began to look like "more of the same"
Thursday, January 7, 2010 - 00:00
Mexican President Felipe Calderon said Wednesday that jobs and reducing poverty will be his top two priorities in 2010, while the fight against drug cartels that dominated the first half of his presidency placed third
Tuesday, December 15, 2009 - 00:00
Desafinado, the hit by Joao Gilberto that captured the musical mood of the period, means out of tune. Although President Barack Obama promised more harmonious inter-American relations, the sounds coming from Washington are once again, out of tune
Wednesday, December 2, 2009 - 00:00
Non-socialist countries in Latin America have generally performed better
Wednesday, December 2, 2009 - 00:00
Hagamos Democracia's report, which coincided with the TSE on who had won the election while differing substantially on voter turnout, raises questions about the electoral tribunal's announcement