Financial Times (UK)
Thursday, November 13, 2008 - 00:00
Mexico’s Congress was expected on Wednesday to vote through a budget that could increase government spending by 16 per cent, as part of a strategy to spend its way out of the fall-out from the US downturn
Tuesday, November 11, 2008 - 00:00
Mexico is taking steps to protect itself from the oil price remaining below $70 a barrel in the clearest sign yet of the concerns of producer countries at the impact of the global economic slowdown on their revenues
Tuesday, November 11, 2008 - 00:00
When police raided a clandestine bullet factory hidden deep inside one of Caracas’ lawless and sprawling hillside slums recently, they were stunned at the extent of the operation
Monday, November 10, 2008 - 00:00
Fears are growing that the tourism industry in many Caribbean states could suffer if Barack Obama, US president-elect, decides to weaken or lift a long-standing US embargo on Cuba.
Monday, November 10, 2008 - 00:00
Finance ministers and central bank presidents from the G20 group of developed and developing nations are meeting in São Paulo this weekend to try to agree proposals for the summit in Washington next Saturday.
Friday, November 7, 2008 - 00:00
Finance ministers from the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum warned against rising protectionist sentiment, saying they would resist the erection of barriers to free trade in response to the economic crisis.
Friday, November 7, 2008 - 00:00
Brazil’s banks are preparing for a wave of consolidation following this week’s merger of Itau and Unibanco to create the biggest bank in South America.
Wednesday, November 5, 2008 - 00:00
The cause of the tragedy was still unclear, but there was some concern that it may have been the work of one of the country’s powerful drugs cartels
Monday, November 3, 2008 - 00:00
The move is the latest in a tit-for-tat decline in relations that has seen Bolivia expel the US ambassador and the US suspend critical trade preferences that could cost the Andean nation tens of thousands of jobs.
Monday, November 3, 2008 - 00:00
Colombia’s security forces are engaged in “widespread and systematic” killings of civilians that could constitute a crime against humanity, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights said at the weekend.