As Greece Ponders Default, Lessons From Argentina
By CHARLES NEWBERY and ALEXEI BARRIONUEVO
The effects of Argentina 2001 debt crisis still linger, and the country’s default at the time is still keeping it away from the global credit market.
The effects of Argentina 2001 debt crisis still linger, and the country’s default at the time is still keeping it away from the global credit market.
Six months after killing the leader of a ruthless gang, officials said that they had arrested his successor.
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, 58, said she would run in October for a second four-year term, and she is favored to win.
An appeals court in Santiago suspended the government’s approval process for the $3.2 billion plan to build five dams and hydroelectric plants in a pristine region of Patagonia.
In Xul, Mexico, the arrival of Italian settlers has set off whispers that they are awaiting the end of the world; the truth is more mundane.
With the relaxation of travel restrictions to Cuba, more Cuban-Americans are going back for visits, with emotional and economic results.
The Mexican authorities seized two makeshift armored vehicles on Sunday like those being used more often by drug cartels.
Carrying assault rifles and sipping whiskey poolside, inmates at Venezuela’s San Antonio prison serve amid a surreal mix of hedonism and force.
Young planners in Mexico City are urging a radical concept to refresh their dusty megalopolis with a ring of water and parks around the city center.
Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of former President Alberto K. Fujimori, who is in prison for rights abuses, says she wants her father cleared through the courts.
Even as Brazil, Argentina and other nations move to impose limits on farmland purchases by foreigners, the Chinese are seeking to more directly control production themselves.
Fifty years after Fidel Castro rid Cuba of golf courses, developers say the country’s government has given preliminary approval for four large luxury golf resorts on the island.
The remains of President Salvador Allende were exhumed and a second autopsy will be conducted to determine if he shot himself during a coup as his family has long believed.
A revolution in child care is giving Brazilian nannies better pay and hours, but it is also pricing them out of the reach of many families.
The voice of Javier Sicilia, a poet whose son was killed in a drug-trafficking attack, has put an exclamation point to Mexico’s campaign against drug cartel violence.
Bogotá’s hard-won accomplishments are being eclipsed by traffic chaos, attacks on tourists, and a corruption scandal that has resulted in the mayor’s suspension.
Desi Bouterse, a former military ruler who has been convicted of drug trafficking and is still on trial for official killings in the 1980s, is once again Suriname’s leader.
Ollanta Humala rejects talk of seizing private companies and celebrates Brazil’s market-oriented economic model.
At 75, Frankétienne, whose output includes novels, poems, plays and artwork, embraces chaos as a style that befits Haiti’s tumultuous history.
More than half of the Haitians driven into camps by the 2010 earthquake have moved out, but most of them appear to have been forced out or to have left to escape crime and living conditions.
The Amazon’s pink dolphins are protected by law, but fishermen kill them to use as bait.
Aggressive crackdowns on criminal organizations in Mexico and Colombia have increasingly brought the powerful drug syndicates into Central America.
The Obama administration has begun sending drones deep into Mexico to gather intelligence on trafficking.
Seizing on the surge in gold prices, combatants from multiple sides of the conflict in Colombia are shifting into gold mining.
After a police and military operation to reclaim the dangerous Complexo do Alemão slum in Rio de Janeiro from drug gangs, residents are viewing the security presence through cautious eyes.
The declines, from a country responsible for roughly 6 of every 10 illegal immigrants in the United States, are stark.
On the outside, the San Antonio prison on Margarita Island looks like any other Venezuelan penitentiary. But venture inside and you'll see how far the rabbit hole goes.
Keiko Fujimori, daughter of currently incarcerated former President Alberto K. Fujimori, is in a tight race for the Peruvian presidency.