The Washington Post
Monday, January 4, 2010 - 00:00
Since 2003, more than 32 million people in this country of 198 million have entered the middle class, and about 20 million have risen above poverty, according to the Center for Social Policies at the Getulio Vargas Foundation.
Friday, December 18, 2009 - 00:00
"They are the big thinkers. . . . At the minimum, this will cause quite a bit of dislocation in the organization, and it is possible it could cause a power struggle within the cartel,"
Thursday, December 17, 2009 - 00:00
This week, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a club of rich nations that includes the United States, Japan and several European countries, formally invited Chile to join. Becoming the first South American nation in the 30-member g
Tuesday, December 15, 2009 - 00:00
It is so important that the man who in many ways embodies the alternative to Chavismo, Colombian President Álvaro Uribe, firmly commit himself against seeking a third term
Tuesday, December 15, 2009 - 00:00
Mr. Gomez was the lead investigator on the Moakley Commission, the 1989 task force headed by Rep. Joe Moakley (D-Mass.) that identified the Salvadoran army officers who killed six Jesuit priests and their housekeepers
Monday, December 14, 2009 - 00:00
Political analysts say that if Concertacion loses, a Pinera government would tinker with -- but not overhaul -- Chile's economic model
Monday, December 14, 2009 - 00:00
Brazil's achievements are vulnerable. To keep its marvelous success on track, Brazil may have to do something that horrifies its diplomats: Confront China
Monday, December 14, 2009 - 00:00
Drug traffickers employing high-tech drills, miles of rubber hose and a fleet of stolen tanker trucks have siphoned more than $1 billion worth of oil from Mexico's pipelines over the past two years
Monday, December 14, 2009 - 00:00
The detention of an American contractor working for the U.S. government may raise tensions between the Castro brothers' communist government in Cuba and the Obama administration, which has been taking a "go-slow" approach
Wednesday, December 9, 2009 - 00:00
A judge's report confirmed Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle's suspicion that his father was killed