It took five weeks of seething and haranguing in the giant campsite at the heart of Mexico City for presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador finally to break the taboo.
An exploding crime wave is confronting Latin America's new generation of leftwing leaders with difficult political choices, says Ivan Briscoe.The script for a typical Latin American security
He has lived on his homestead for only a year since staging a "sort of invasion", but Jovito González is already enjoying the fruits of the Caribbean. Besides
To judge from the childhoods of Latin America’s most powerful men, the streets of the continent, much as the Spaniards dreamed, could still be paved with gold. Brazil’s
President George W Bush, harried on numerous fronts at home, might well rue a summit calendar that sees him spending a weekend with his most verbose antagonist, while nearby a
6,000 radicals shouldered their flags through the baroque masonry of central Salamanca, but for once their cries had already been heeded. Obligingly, and at the very time the protesters
A contrast between two events on successive days in Buenos Aires’ central Plaza de Mayo in March 2005 reveals that two years of President Néstor Kirchner’s economic boom and
In a city full of flagrant contradictions, the walls of Caracas make an early and unsettling impression. Drivers on the highways of the richer suburbs peer through their tinted glass
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In the days before the April 2003 presidential
If successful political leadership requires a combination of tactical skill, a popular touch, and sheer good luck, the Venezuelan presidency of ex-army officer Hugo Chávez is promising to be one
Abubakr Khamlachis six years in Moroccos most unsavoury prisons failed to prepare him for the hardships outside. The veteran dissident, lapsed revolutionary and social activist sits in a
The proximity of the Madrid blasts and the electoral defeat of Spains ruling party has been interpreted as a victory for terrorism. For Ivan Briscoe in Madrid, this is
