After the 'Battle for Latin America's Soul'
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Venezuela's poll will likely give the left a 6-4 victory in the continent's year of elections. Now, can the two sides finally learn from each other's policy ideas?
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Latin America has seen a decline in child mortality rate, but the situation in Iraq, countries of the former Soviet Union and those in sub-Saharan Africa has worsened over the
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The battle to rewrite Bolivia's constitution has come down to a math problem, a question that is anything but academic. What hangs in the balance is not only the direction the nation takes, but perhaps whether it remains a whole country at all.
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He talked of grinding poverty and called it "a scandal" that democracy and capitalism have not delivered more to Latin Americans. The working poor need change, he declared. He invoked Simon Bolivar, the "great liberator," and vowed to "complete the revolution" and bring true "social justice" to the...
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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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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil  - A Russian oil baron  suffering from memory loss finds out he is Brazilian and his  family has been killed. He goes to the tropical country to do  business, seek revenge and look for his lost love.
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The election held in Uruguay yesterday will determine whether the country, slowly emerging from economic turmoil, will join the ranks of other South American nations headed by leftist presidents.
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On weekend nights, the dance floor at Cecilia's Club in Arlington County pulsates with strobe lights and salsa dancers. But one recent Saturday afternoon, this social hub of the region's large Bolivian population became a sober forum for debate on the political storm that has convulsed the...
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Difficult questions. Questions about the futures of Felix Trinidad and Ricardo Mayorga. Very likely they will be questions only one of them will be able to answer.
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The protests in Santiago, Chile, during President Bush&#39;s visit for an Asia-Pacific summit last month are a symptom of far deeper troubles in Latin America.
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Emerging economic expansion in Latin America fuels continued growth.
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Leftist president Evo Morales wins a majority of delegates charged with rewriting the nation's constitution. But he'll have to compromise
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The high cost of tortillas and other food staples has consumed politics and spilled into the ever-simmering debate over Mexicoâs commitment to free-market economics.
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BUENOS AIRES, Sep 29 (IPS) - A private research study released in the Argentine  capital on Friday reports that in Latin America, governments of  different political tendencies are resorting ever more frequently  to a new form of populism that is undermining the growth of  democracy in the region.
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The economy of Latin America and the Caribbean grew 5.5 percent this year, outstripping the most optimistic forecasts. But structural challenges linked by many experts to neo-liberal economics stand in the
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It&#39;s no secret that U.S. Latins use the  Internet less than other segments of the population. And it&#39;s  no secret that digital sales of Latin music lag way behind the  physical.
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He talked of grinding poverty and called it "a scandal" that democracy and capitalism have not delivered more to Latin Americans. The working poor need change, he declared. He invoked Simon Bolivar, the "great liberator," and vowed to "complete the revolution" and bring true "social justice" to the region...