Bulletin 27 January 2010
Guatemala: former president arrested ♦ Venezuela: Chávez appoints new vice-president amid street protests ♦ Haiti: survivor found under rubble after rescue operations are suspended ♦ Peru coffee exports growing fast ♦ More deman
Bulletin 26 January 2010
Haiti to lead its own reconstruction ♦ Venezuela: students die in government demonstration for TV closures, and minister resigns ♦ Peru: Rains leave tourists stranded in Machu Picchu ♦ Brazil in better shape than China ♦ Venezue
Bulletin 21 January 2010
Haiti: After the earthquake, the illnesses ♦ More US troops in Haiti but aid still vastly inadequate ♦ Blockade to avoid immigration ♦ Honduras: Agreement for Zelaya to leave the country ♦ Venezuela: Revolution until the year 34
Bulletin 19 January 2010
Haiti: The US takes control of Port-au-Prince ♦ Reconstruction plans ♦ Chile: new president to continue current policies ♦ Venezuela: government does not rule out more expropriations ♦ Bolivia denies responsibility for failure o
Bulletin 11 December 2010
Venezuela: devaluation causes chaos ♦ Colombia: right-wing para-military infiltration behind political assassinations ♦ Argentina: payment of public debt sparks off heated debate
BULLETIN 29 December 2009
Argentina: First gay wedding in Latin America ♦ Venezuela: Chávez accuses Colombia of linking him with rebels ♦ Chile to hand over report on “espionage” in Peru ♦ Bolivia ends the year without new investment ♦ Brazil
Letter from Manaus
Last week I went to Manaus for a conference. It was 40 years since the first time I'd been there. Manaus then was a small town of elegant old houses dating from the rubber boom, built around the grandiose Opera House, a town of precarious shanties
BULLETIN 4 DECEMBER 2009
BOLIVIA PREPARES TO VOTE ♦ CHILE: VICTOR JARA, BURIED AT LAST ♦ MEXICO: POLICE RESCUE “SLAVES” ♦ BRAZIL STRENGTHENS LINKS WITH GERMANY ♦ MEXICO WILL LOSE BIODIVERSITY BECAUSE OF GLOBAL WARMING
BULLETIN 2 DECEMBER 2009
NO AGREEMENT AMONG LATIN AMERICAN LEADERS ON HONDURAN CRISIS ♦ ARGENTINA: ANTI-GOVERNMENT DEMONSTRATORS TAKE OVER CENTRAL BUENOS AIRES ♦ BOLIVIA: EVO MORALES REMAINS FAVOURITE FOR RELECTION ♦ MEXICO: FAST GROWTH OF TELECOMMUNICATION
Bulletin 23 November 2009
IRANIAN PRESIDENT ON A NEW SOUTH AMERICAN JOURNEY; BOLIVIA: MORALES CAMPAIGNS; IN ENEMY TERRITORY ♦ COUNTRIES MARGINALISE BOLIVIA