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BusinessWeek
July 5, 2004 |
Q&A with Bolivian President Mesa On the job less than a year, Bolivian President Carlos Mesa talks at length about the huge challenges ahead, economic, political, and cultural.   |
BusinessWeek
July 5, 2004
Geri Smith |
Gas-Rich, Dirt-Poor, Fed Up After 20 years of free-market reform, Bolivia, South America's most impoverished country, is growing restless. |
BusinessWeek
December 26, 2005
Geri Smith |
Chavez: Trading Oil For Influence What worries Washington most about Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is the way he is spreading his strident anti-American message throughout the hemisphere, winning hearts and minds from Buenos Aires to the Bronx. |
Outside
December 2007
Joshua Hammer |
Coca Is It! Welcome to the new Bolivia, where former coca grower Evo Morales has made the leaf a symbol of his two-year-old government. Now everybody's growing it, everybody's chewing it, and the war on drugs has taken a very strange turn. |
BusinessWeek
May 9, 2005
Geri Smith |
Latin America: The Downside of People Power The military coup may be a thing of the past, but the popular coup is in vogue, as more Latin Americans are losing faith in the ballot box and taking to the streets. |
IDB America
August 2003
Charo Quesada |
From protesters to legislators Once at the margins of Latin America society, indigenous groups are taking their place on the political stage |
The Motley Fool
June 7, 2005
Stephen D. Simpson |
Bolivia's Gas Pains Domestic unrest puts the fate of Bolivia's natural gas in question. Investors in Petrobras and Repsol YPF should definitely keep an especially watchful eye. |
BusinessWeek
October 20, 2003 |
Behind Brazil's New Assertiveness Foreign Minister Celso Amorim explains the rationale for its much tougher positions on world and regional trade |
Reason
July 2008
Radley Balko |
Coca Zero The U.N.'s drug enforcement agency, the International Narcotics Control Board, recommends that Bolivia and Peru criminalize the chewing of coca leaves and the boiling of the leaves to make tea. The move has triggered widespread protests in both countries. |
BusinessWeek
May 2, 2005
Jonathan Wheatley |
Why Condi's Meeting With Lula Matters Both Brazil and the U.S. share an interest in promoting stability and democracy in Latin America. Above all, the Bush Administration hopes it can persuade Lula to help rein in what it sees as the region's most dangerous leader -- Venezuela's authoritarian President, Hugo Chavez. |
BusinessWeek
May 10, 2004
Geri Smith |
Democracy On The Ropes With corruption and economic woes rising, Latin America is disillusioned with democracy. |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2002 |
Crafting Bolivia's PRSP: 5 Points of View Bolivia's poverty reduction strategy paper (PRSP) was issued in March 2001. Building on an earlier national dialogue, it formulates a four-pronged plan for sustainable growth, social development, institutional strengthening, and eradication of drug (coca) production and trade. |
The Motley Fool
September 18, 2008
Hanson & Weisshaar |
Are You Panicking Yet? If you've invested money in the emerging markets, then you probably have less money invested today than you did last week. China, India, Brazil, Vietnam ... they've all been hammered amid widespread fears of global financial instability. |
Geotimes
December 2006 |
Top Energy News Stories of 2006 Offshore drilling debate unresolved... Tensions in Latin America energy sector... etc. |
BusinessWeek
October 10, 2005
Stephen Ixer |
Chavez' Oil-Fueled Revolution Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is stepping up a program of expropriation that could bedevil a number of businesses, both locally owned and foreign. |
U.S. Banker
September 2007
Karen Krebsbach |
Bank of South Draws Mixed Reviews The brainchild of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, the proposed Bank of the South would be the Southern Hemisphere's all-purpose development bank. Is it a better mousetrap? |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2005
Singh & Collyns |
Latin America's Resurgence Latin America's recent resurgence amid continuing favorable external conditions provides another historic opportunity for the region to catalyze its considerable natural and human capital resources into sustained and higher growth. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2005
Arturo Valenzuela |
Putting Latin America Back on the Map Consolidation of democratic institutions is a vital part of Latin America's recovery. |
IDB America
January 2003 |
Indigenous Peoples: Equal Rights, Equal Respect Indigenous peoples in the Americas are beginning to receive new respect for claims to their rights, their land, and their identity. |
BusinessWeek
December 8, 2003 |
Russian Politics: "No News Is Good News" So says Grigor Yavlinsky, head of the opposition Yabloko Party, about the potential outcome of December's election |
BusinessWeek
July 28, 2003
Clifford & Shari |
"Love Me, Love My Dog" Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is enjoying approval ratings of around 70%. The secret to his popularity: economic reforms that have helped boost GDP and enrich the working classes. Yet some question whether he's leading the country back toward authoritarian rule. |
IDB America
June 2005
Paul Constance |
Who Won the Water Wars? Private investment is not a panacea for Latin America's water problems, but it is an alternative that the region's people should be allowed to explore without stepping into an ideological minefield. |
BusinessWeek
September 6, 2004 |
"We're Going To Come Through This Fine" (extended) Treasury Secretary John Snow sees a very strong underlying U.S. economy. Here's an extended version of edited excerpts from a Q&A that will appear in the Sept. 6 issue of BusinessWeek. |
The Motley Fool
May 11, 2006
Stephen D. Simpson |
Repsol Requires Repair The already-dubious prospects of this European oil company have been further clouded by uncertainties in Latin America. Investors, you have to drill deep to find good news here. |
IDB America
August 2001
Charo Quesada |
Invisible citizens? Censuses in many Latin American countries omit questions about race, rendering minority groups statistically invisible... |
BusinessWeek
January 26, 2004
Power & Crock |
Spain's Aznar on Breaking The Franco-German Grip The Prime Minister looks back on a year that raised Spain's maverick profile. |
BusinessWeek
August 25, 2003
Michael Shari |
Jakarta: "We're Going to Fight" Terror Economics czar Kuntjoro-Jakti acknowledges the challenge but says: "We fought this kind of terrorism in the '50s, and we won." |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2005
Hall & Patrinos |
Latin America's Indigenous Peoples Despite greater political power, Latin America's indigenous peoples still lag behind in economic and social development. |
BusinessWeek
May 31, 2004 |
Spreading India's Uneven Wealth To U.N. economist Santosh Mehrotra, the biggest challenge for the new ruling party will be lifting 650 million Indians living in poverty. |
BusinessWeek
November 24, 2003
Lee Walczak |
Wesley Clark In His Own Words The Democratic candidate talks about political strategy, the economy, Iraq, free trade, and more. |
The Motley Fool
January 6, 2006
Robert Aronen |
Russia's Gas Weapon Russia and Ukraine's natural gas dispute shows the tenuous connections among world energy markets. Investors should take that into account before buying shares of an emerging market player. |
IDB America
May 2005
Paul Constance |
Are Cooperatives a Better Way to Solve Latin America's Water Problems? At a time when governments everywhere are looking for creative ways to finance the expansion of water services in a socially responsible way, are cooperatives a better model? |
BusinessWeek
May 9, 2005 |
Making Pakistan Secure -- and Inviting (extended) Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz talks about the fast-growing economy and the investment climate. |
Reason
November 2005
Julian Sanchez |
Soundbite An interview with Independent Institute Senior Fellow Alvaro Vargas Llosa, who looks for the roots of Latin America's problems -- and a way to escape them -- in Liberty for Latin America: How to Undo Five Hundred Years of State Oppression. |
BusinessWeek
August 2, 2004 |
A VC's Political Seed Money Silicon Valley's Andy Rappaport explains why he's pouring cash and time into defeating Bush and shaping the Democratic Party's direction |
BusinessWeek
June 21, 2004 |
Rick Wagoner on GM's Chinese Future The chairman and CEO of General Motors talks about the opportunities and risks in the auto industry's "greatest growth opportunity" in China. |
Reason
October 2004
Brian Doherty |
Soundbite: Libertarian Dark Horse An interview with the Libertarian Party's presidential nominee, a stunned Michael Badnarik. |
BusinessWeek
August 11, 2003
William C. Symonds |
Dr. Dean on the Record Says the former Vermont governer and Dem '04 hopeful: George Bush "is a President who doesn't have a clue" |
BusinessWeek
March 29, 2004 |
"A Major Change in the Political Equation" Howard Rheingold predicted the rise of online advocacy groups. Now, he talks about how they're affecting Election 2004 |
IDB America
March 2003
Roger Hamilton |
`Pictures that look like us' How an education reform program increases coverage while promoting cultural diversity |
IDB America
September 2005
Paul Constance |
All About Reputation How an oil spill helped a Bolivian energy company to become a model of corporate citizenship. |
BusinessWeek
May 2, 2005 |
Burning for "Unconventional" Energy EnCana CEO Gwyn Morgan talks about the Canadian company's "competitive advantage" in tapping hard-to-extract gas and heavy-grade oil. |
