The siesta congress
Reforms languish while overpaid, underworked lawmakers bicker(61)
Monday January 23rd 2012
Mexico's politics
Hugo Chávez's Venezuela
Ick-SID
Venezuela pulls out of the World Bank's dispute-resolution tribunal(3)
Guatemala's new president
Quick march
A former general must move fast to meet expectations(7)
Pipelines in North America
What goes around
A proposed pipeline to the Pacific runs into trouble(33)
Mexico's monopolies
Signal interference
When improving competition in one industry hinders it in another(1)
Brazil's economy
Why make it simple?
Setting up a business has just got easier. But not much(24)
Mexico’s drug war
Not so fast
The simmering controversy over Operation Fast and Furious(48)
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Tequila
Storm in a shot glassCan a succulent be claimed as a trademark? (5)
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Youth orchestras in Venezuela
The music manThe power of art (2)
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A good walk amortised
Putters aflutterCanadians debate tax and golf (6)
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Lima’s metro
The train leaves platform one at lastBetter late than never (9)
Feature
Fernando Henrique Cardoso on Brazil's future
More personal security, less inequality
Our São Paulo bureau chief talks with the former president about Brazil's challenges and its increasing global power
What we're reading
The loneliness of the Guyanas (Opinionator)
Why South America's Caribbean coast is full of border disputes
Reversal of fortune (New Yorker)
Did a crusading lawyer go too far in helping Ecuadorans secure a huge environmental judgment against Chevron?
Iran tries to gain sway in Latin America (Wall Street Journal)
The mullahs test the Monroe doctrine
Magnificent visions (Vanity Fair)
Finding the source of ayahuasca
Highlights
Publishing in Latin America
A literary deficit
Brazil apart, publishers are struggling to persuade the growing middle class to read more books
Fiction from Argentina
The price of love
The junta’s policy of eliminating its enemies still fascinates Argentina’s novelists
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