The story of how Argentineans have responded to defeat in the Malvinas/Falklands war of 1982 contains a quarter-century of contradictions, says Ivan Briscoe.
The great Argentine writer Jorge Luis
The lives of north and south Americans are becoming both more intermingled and more unequal. This may be as significant for long-term United States interests as the regions political
If terrorism is ever to swap genre from war movie to courtroom intrigue, then Hollywood's best could do little better than pay a visit to Spain. Three weeks
Unusually for a politician, it was a fashion statement that put Evo Morales firmly on the map of world leaders. Days before his inauguration as Bolivia's president on
On dank and unlit streets, haunted customarily by gangs of youths charging their own private taxes, the coming of Daniel Ortega is cause for celebration. Fireworks and fairy lamps and
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
