Mac Margolis
Tuesday, September 1, 2015 - 06:31
At the height of the commodities bonanza, Latin Americans seemed willing to shrug at officials with sticky hands. Now tolerance is thinning as regional gross domestic product is expected to expand by just 0.4 percent this year, the worst performance since 2009.
Wednesday, August 26, 2015 - 06:26
So much for Tio Sam's war on drugs. Skeptics are less enthusiastic. Soon after the UN announced its survey, critics noted that the report focused on the coca leaf but omitted data on how much of the crop is being converted to cocaine. And without that data, the heralded fall in coca may be an optical illusion.
Tuesday, September 16, 2014 - 07:24
Nothing like the whiff of cordite to set a society on a forensic soul-searching mission: Two explosions in Chile last week — one near a Santiago metro station, the other in a supermarket in Viña del Mar — have shaken this mostly peaceable nation like an Andean temblor and left much of Latin America perplexed.
Monday, June 23, 2014 - 08:46
He could conceivably win a Nobel Prize or a footnote in history. Leadership will make the difference
Friday, October 11, 2013 - 00:00
Venezuela's embattled president is trying to convince the National Assembly to hand him extraordinary executive powers-but his opponents aren't buying his naked power grab.
Tuesday, July 9, 2013 - 00:00
Riding out the wave of anger may not be an elegant endgame, but it may be Rousseff's best strategy
Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - 00:00
Bringing to mind the ongoing protests in Turkey, what began last week as an improvised demonstration against a small hike in bus and subway fares flared into an outright revolt.
Tuesday, April 30, 2013 - 00:00
Abreu has stumped the nation to whip the scattered and often ill-mannered ruralistas into a disciplined, aggressive interest group, eager to shape the national agenda.
Monday, April 22, 2013 - 00:00
The new law and the tumult it has created say a great deal about the impressive transformations, and growing pains, sweeping Latin America's emerging giant
Friday, March 29, 2013 - 00:00
The trial under Chief Justice Jazmin Barrios, which began March 19, is expected to drag on for weeks and maybe months, but already is stirring comment across the globe.