The Wall Street Journal
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - 00:00
President Hugo Chavez's decision to devalue Venezuela's bolivar and impose a complicated new currency regime may paper over some growing cracks in the economy, but it is also setting the stage for bigger problems down the road
Monday, January 11, 2010 - 00:00
"There's a bank out there," Chavez said, without mentioning its name. "It's getting dangerously close" to facing government intervention
Monday, January 11, 2010 - 00:00
Critics say Chavez' strategy is clear: the extra cash will allow him to essentially buy votes from the poor ahead of September congressional elections
Monday, January 11, 2010 - 00:00
"I don't understand why people are standing in line. They are victims of terrorist media campaigns creating fear that prices will rise"
Monday, January 11, 2010 - 00:00
Argentine President Cristina Kirchner's firing of the country's central bank president last Wednesday has provoked a constitutional crisis, not unlike the one that rocked Honduras last summer.
Monday, January 11, 2010 - 00:00
As with then-Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, Mrs. Kirchner has tried to run roughshod over her nation's laws. She blithely ignored legal protections of bank independence
Friday, January 8, 2010 - 00:00
Argentina's Opposition Calls President's Decree Unconstitutional, Turning Bank Chief Into Linchpin of Gathering Political Revolt
Friday, January 8, 2010 - 00:00
Due in part to the assumption by many Venezuelans that energy in all its forms would always be cheap and plentiful, the country is suddenly starved for electrical power, and officials are warning of a possible calamity.
Thursday, January 7, 2010 - 00:00
The attorney general's office says the the military men overstepped their authority by sending Mr. Zelaya out of the country
Tuesday, January 5, 2010 - 00:00
On a number of important political and security issues, Washington and Brasilia recently have not seen eye to eye. Nor has Brazil shown much leadership in tackling the important political and security challenges