Financial Times (UK)
Friday, September 5, 2008 - 00:00
The survey, carried out for the Reforma daily newspaper, reveals that the PRI now command 37 per cent of the vote compared with 36 per cent for President Felipe Calderon’s centre-right National Action Party (PAN)
Thursday, September 4, 2008 - 00:00
Daniel Marx, a former Argentine finance secretary, said settling the Paris Club debt would have only limited impact on improving sentiment about Argentina’s financial health
Wednesday, August 27, 2008 - 00:00
Though Bolivia's first indigenous president Evo Morales emerged as the clear winner of a national vote earlier this month in which he faced removal from office, the eastern, whiter and wealthier half of the country is not willing to concede defeat
Wednesday, August 13, 2008 - 00:00
Oportunidades, which now benefits 25m people in 5m households at an annual cost of $4.5bn, is one of the first large-scale examples of a “conditional cash transfer” scheme
Monday, August 11, 2008 - 00:00
Evo Morales, Bolivia's president, claimed a reinvigorated mandate for constitutional reform on Sunday after a partial count showed he had won more than 60 per cent of the vote
Sunday, August 10, 2008 - 00:00
Venezuela's bombastic president has made a concerted effort to challenge the private media by setting up multiple media outlets to promote his self-styled socialist revolution
Thursday, August 7, 2008 - 00:00
Evo Morales, the radical leftist president who faces a recall vote this Sunday, was not welcome in Sucre this week
Tuesday, August 5, 2008 - 00:00
Vladimir Putin has called for a restoration of Moscow's influence in Cuba, once a Soviet satellite, as tensions with the US deepen over Washington's planned anti-missile system in eastern Europe
Tuesday, August 5, 2008 - 00:00
Opponents of President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela are up in arms over a raft of decree laws they say replicate constitutional reforms rejected by voters last year
Sunday, August 3, 2008 - 00:00
With Banco de Venezuela in government hands Mr Chavez controls almost a quarter of the banking system. Over the next year or two that proportion seems set to increase