Reuters
Monday, April 16, 2012 - 00:00
Brazil's economic rise is forcing it to deal with a problem it long regarded as the sole concern of rich countries like the United States: the need to secure its borders and slow down a flood of drugs, illegal immigrants and other contraband.
Monday, April 16, 2012 - 00:00
The latest voter survey by polling firm BGC for Mexican newspaper Excelsior showed support for Pena Nieto, a member of the opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), running at 50 percent.
Thursday, April 12, 2012 - 00:00
Under Santos, Colombia may assume a regional mediator role usually reserved for South American giant Brazil.
Thursday, April 12, 2012 - 00:00
Obama will sidestep calls from regional leaders for him to lift Washington's embargo on Cuba and rethink the war on drugs.
Thursday, April 12, 2012 - 00:00
Calderon told reporters that Cuba-Mexico relations were in a "renewed stage" and he hoped to "take to its best level."
Thursday, April 12, 2012 - 00:00
A new TV spot by the National Action Party, or PAN, describing Pena Nieto as a "liar" began to circulate just as a poll showed support for PAN contender Josefina Vazquez Mota falling to its lowest level.
Wednesday, April 11, 2012 - 00:00
"He almost certainly won't sleep in Cartagena. It would be nice for us if he could stay a night. Most certainly it is complicated given the treatment he is receiving."
Wednesday, April 11, 2012 - 00:00
Obama can ill-afford to entertain changes to policy on Cuba or the drug war because they might alienate him from middle-of-the-road voters who will be key for his re-election bid.
Wednesday, April 11, 2012 - 00:00
The cancellation raised suspicions in Brazil that it was done so that Obama, who faces reelection in November, would not be seen moving jobs abroad.
Wednesday, April 11, 2012 - 00:00
BNDES, Brazil's state development bank, was due to fund about 80 percent of the troubled project, which has been at the center of Bolivian politics for nearly a year.