Financial Times (UK)
Friday, October 10, 2008 - 00:00
Mexico’s Congress will on Friday begin studying a package of extraordinary measures announced on Wednesday to prop up the economy and offset the effects of the US slowdown
Friday, October 3, 2008 - 00:00
It is 8am at the Mercado Municipal da Lapa, a covered market built in the 1950s in a mixed residential, industrial and commercial district in the west of São Paulo. The first shoppers are filling the aisles and there is an air of prosperity to the
Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - 00:00
Rafael Correa, Ecuador’s leftwing president, pledged on Monday to move quickly to enact changes in the Andean’s nation’s 20th constitution, including the imposition of a new tax on mining companies
Monday, September 29, 2008 - 00:00
Exit polls showed voter support for the constitution at 66 per cent to 70 per cent, well in excess of the simple majority required for passage of the draft constitution
Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - 00:00
”The police are infiltrated and as long as they are infiltrated we cannot, fully, guarantee security or secure people’s confidence.”
Friday, September 19, 2008 - 00:00
Tension increased further between the US and the allies of President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela yesterday after Washington said that Bolivia had failed to co-operate adequately in fighting the drugs trade
Thursday, September 18, 2008 - 00:00
Tension increased further between the US and the allies of President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela yesterday after Washington said that Bolivia had failed to co-operate adequately in fighting the drugs trade.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 00:00
Tension increased further yesterday between the US and the allies of President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela when Washington announ-ced that Bolivia had failed to co-operate adequately in fighting the drugs trade
Monday, September 15, 2008 - 00:00
Brazil yesterday faced severe shortages of natural gas after violent protests in Bolivia caused the temporary closure of a pipeline that supplies about a quarter of Brazil's daily needs
Thursday, September 11, 2008 - 00:00
It was a day rich in symbolism. On an oil platform off the Brazilian coast, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva this month dipped his hands into the first crude to flow from promising reserves discovered in the country’s waters.