The Economist (UK)
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - 00:00
We need to remember that devaluation is the modern equivalent of the medieval habit of shaving silver and gold off coins
Wednesday, January 6, 2010 - 00:00
Álvaro Uribe should stand aside and let would-be successors campaign to lead Colombia
Tuesday, December 8, 2009 - 00:00
American officials ruefully agree that they should have thought about the regional response to an agreement they now say was not necessary and was drawn up at Colombian insistence
Friday, November 13, 2009 - 00:00
Brazil is also on a roll. It did not avoid the downturn, but was among the last in and the first out
Friday, November 13, 2009 - 00:00
Dilma Rousseff, Lula's preferred successor, is a more interesting politician than she appears to be. But would she be different from her boss?
Thursday, October 29, 2009 - 00:00
The "justice and peace" process the Colombian government offered to right-wing paramilitaries is at risk of falling apart
Friday, October 23, 2009 - 00:00
A recent study from Rio de Janeiro state’s government on the economics of the local drug business suggests that, because of this competition, far from living like characters in an MTV hip-hop video, Rio’s dealers are operating at “close to break-eve
Friday, September 18, 2009 - 00:00
Hugo Chavez this week got what he seemed to be seeking all along: the attention of the United States
Wednesday, September 16, 2009 - 00:00
The foreign-policy section of Venezuela’s “First Socialist Plan—2007-2013” (dubbed the “Simon Bolivar National Project”) assigns an “integral political alliance” with Iran, Syria, Belarus and Russia the highest priority outside the Latin A
Friday, September 11, 2009 - 00:00
The border is not closed. But few of the 30,000 Colombians who used to cross each day to shop do so now, because Venezuela’s National Guard confiscates their goods when they recross the border