Our new Latin American column The Economist (blog) In February we will start a new weekly column in The Economist about Latin America. We are searching for a title for the column, along the lines of Bagehot, Charlemagne or Lexington. Preferably, it has to be a title that has some resonance throughout ... |
 NorthJersey.com | Cuba's American hostage Mansfield News Journal Alan Gross began his fifth year as a prisoner of Cuba's unjust “justice” system last week, a symbol of the continuing estrangement between that island nation and the U.S., and, more important, the fundamentally unchanged nature of the governing regime. Opinion: Time to shake hands with all of Cuba |
 The Nation | Chile: A new model for Latin America? Washington Post IN RECENT years Latin American governments have tended to gravitate toward two poles: leftist, populist and authoritarian, in the style of former Venezuelan caudillo Hugo Chávez; and modernizing, free market and democratic, as in Mexico and Colombia. Bachelet wins Chile presidential run-off Chile's Bachelet returns to power with landslide election victory Meet Michelle Bachelet, Chile's Once and Future President |
 Latin American Herald Tribune | UPDATE 1-Venezuela revamping currency controls to stop capital flight Reuters Currency exchange linked to tourism, oil investments, and the central bank's gold purchases will be carried out via the auction system known as Sicad, said Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez, giving those sectors a rate more favorable than the official one ... UPDATE 2-Venezuela revamps currency controls to combat black market Measures to be Applied on Currencies Entering Venezuela Sicad to become a permanent mechanism for US dollar sales |
Cruise ship leaves Havana for sail around Cuba MiamiHerald.com Several previous attempts to establish Cuba as a regular cruise destination have failed, in large part because of economic sanctions by the United States, which forbids U.S. tourism in Cuba and bars any ship that docks at Cuban ports from entering the ... Canadian Cruise Ship Begins Travel Around Cuba |
Cruise ship leaves Havana for sail around Cuba MiamiHerald.com The cruise ship LV Louis Cristal set sail from Havana on Monday on the first of its round-the-island trips, marking yet another effort to establish Cuba as an attractive and profitable cruise industry destination. Cuba Cruise, based in Calgary, Canada ... Canadian Cruise Ship Begins Travel Around Cuba |
