Financial Times (UK)
Wednesday, January 14, 2009 - 00:00
Most fares can be paid only in cash but getting coins has become difficult in the past year
Monday, December 15, 2008 - 00:00
Ecuador’s default on foreign debt it deemed “illegitimate” did not deter the country’s leftwing president from signalling he would seek to re­negotiate
Wednesday, December 10, 2008 - 00:00
The area sown with wheat will be at a 30-year low and producers' groups say this will be compounded by a drop of up to 25 per cent in the 2008-09 harvest of corn
Wednesday, December 3, 2008 - 00:00
The local government of Tijuana in northern Mexico has fired its minister for public security, in the frankest admission yet that the country's anti-crime policy along the US border is not working
Wednesday, December 3, 2008 - 00:00
The difference between the old and new elites, say observers, is that the new eschews politics. "Evidently the government is more comfortable working with people that are not trying to overthrow it "
Tuesday, December 2, 2008 - 00:00
Brazil vowed on Monday to cut the amount of deforestation in the Amazon over the next decade to less than half the current rate
Monday, December 1, 2008 - 00:00
Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's president and long-time thorn in Washington's side, invited the warships for joint exercises as yet another poke in the eye for the country he likes to call the "empire"
Monday, November 24, 2008 - 00:00
While the government won the large majority of states, claiming 17 of 22 governorships, the opposition scored important victories by winning the states that contain the country’s three largest cities
Friday, November 14, 2008 - 00:00
The live music is by Exaltasamba and, as it pounds out of stacks of loudspeakers, the singer gets ­the several hundred people in front of the store dancing, jumping and waving their arms as if there were no ­tomorrow.
Thursday, November 13, 2008 - 00:00
Uruguay’s Congress approved a measure to overturn a 70-year old ban on abortion, but a presidential veto is expected.