Former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet is a smart, highly-educated politician, and a skilful negotiator, but I wonder whether she did the right thing in agreeing to head the United Nations’ new agency for women’s rights, scheduled to start operating Jan 1.
What a sham! While the Venezuelan military announces it will not accept an opposition victory in the 2012 elections, thousands of people are dying in Mexico’s drug wars and Haiti is suffering from a deadly cholera epidemic, the Organization of American States – supposedly in charge of addressing the region’s biggest problems – is nowhere to be seen.
The death of former Argentine President Nestor Kirchner will most likely make it difficult for current President Cristina Fernández – his widow – to govern, and may speed up Argentina’s reluctant insertion into the global economy.
A lot has been written in recent days about the well-deserved Nobel prize for Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa.
Venezuela’s opposition leaders are ecstatic about the results of Sun-day’s legislative elections, which dealt a heavy blow to President Hugo Chávez.
There is a consensus among foreign policy pundits that Brazil is the upcoming world emerging power.
A new World Bank study is likely to raise high hopes in Brazil, Argentina, Peru and other South American commodity exporters.
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