Latin America Leans Further to the Left
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The left made more inroads into Latin America in four elections this weekend as crisis-weary voters tired of decades of US-backed market reforms warmed to pragmatic
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BUENOS AIRES, March 8 -- As President Bush arrived in Brazil on Thursday, he brought with him a message that he believes has been lost on the region: U.S. concerns about persistent poverty have prompted a doubling of economic aid to Latin America since 2001.
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Vilified by world leaders wary of his nuclear ambitions, Iran's president is turning to South American leftists who are embracing him as an energy and trade partner and counterweight to U.S. influence.
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Felipe Calderon's election victory   in Mexico gives the U.S. government a much-needed conservative   ally in Latin America, where it has lost influence in recent   years as a string of leftist leaders took power.
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President Hugo Chavez called for the creation of a common defense pact between Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua and Bolivia, while the leftist Latin American bloc announced the creation of a development bank to finance joint projects.
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The US eyes the right-leaning Mexican president as a bulwark against Latin America's leftist tide.
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The fractious outcome of a vote on autonomy for Bolivia&#039;s states and the government&#039;s apparent failure to win enough backing to rewrite the constitution could dampened the leftist agenda of President Evo Morales.
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SAN JOSE, Costa Rica  - After spending several  years distracted by Iraq and the war on terror, Spain under its  new socialist government is turning again toward Latin America  where its historical and business links give it an unrivaled  edge.
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CARACAS, Venezuela President Hugo ChÃÂ¡vez of Venezuela has long pledged to buck Washington-backed economic policies in Latin America. Now, two months after winning reelection and consolidating his hold on the country with new powers to rule by decree, he is strengthening economic ties in the region in a bid to limit U.S. influence....
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President Alvaro Uribe&#039;s landslide re-election victory wasn&#039;t only celebrated in Colombia. The clear win for the law-and-order conservative was a triumph as well for U.S. policymakers, who some observers say may be losing Latin America to a rising tide of leftist nationalism.
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Conservative Felipe Calderon&#039;s apparent victory could signal that the leftist tide sweeping Latin America has reached its high-water mark, as voters frightened by the radicalism of Venezuela&#039;s Hugo Chavez seek refuge in more mainstream ideas across the region.
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MERIDA, Mexico  - A tour of Latin America has provided President George W. Bush little respite from a drumbeat of bad news back in Washington, which experts say adds up to the second-term blues.
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After a campaign that split open Mexico&#039;s deep class divisions, voters were deciding Sunday whether to elect a free-spending leftist who pledges to put the poor first or a conservative politician who says private investment and free markets are the keys to prosperity.
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Xinhua world economic news summary at 0430 GMT, Feb. 7    HAVANA -- Integrating Latin America is the focus of debate on Tuesday amongst nearly 1,500 delegates from 43 nations attending an economic forum in Cuba's capital Havana.
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The victory for his leftist coalition brought two-party rule in Uruguay to an end for the first time in 170 years. Venezuela&#39;s left-wing President Hugo Chavez said Mr Vazquez&#39;s election heralded a step towards the shaping of a new South America.
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Bush is about to embark on a grand tour of Latin America, hoping to finally score the sort of foreign-policy victory that's eluded him elsewhere. No matter what he offers, however, it's likely too little, too late.
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Second-term presidents often find comfort in foreign policy and overseas travel as they lose clout at home. A statesman-abroad strategy, however, will not work particularly well for President Bush on a six-day Latin American trip designed to signal a revitalized U.S. commitment to the region.