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<title>Brazil in race with Mexico to head WTO</title>
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<description>The final round of secret voting by the 159-member trade organisation takes place this week but as yet there is no clear frontrunner</description>
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<title>The Caribbean: A darkening debt storm</title>
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<description>The region is struggling to conquer its mountain of debt and its economic fragility is exacerbating the strategic dangers posed by organised crime. By Robin Wigglesworth and Benedict Mander</description>
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<title>US creditors reject Argentina’s debt offer</title>
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<description>Legal tug-of-war in the Second Circuit has fanned concerns that Argentina could fall into technical default on its restructured debt</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 16:23:46 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Foreign investment: Brazil is now ‘ugly mirror image of Mexico’ in beauty parade</title>
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<description>The currency warrior that used to repel capital inflows may have to start learning to attract them, reports Joe Leahy</description>
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<description>The package, aimed at easing the appreciation of the peso, takes aim at the exchange rate by encouraging private pension funds to invest more money overseas</description>
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<title>Rousseff endangered by price of tomatoes</title>
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<description>Inflation a highly emotive issue in Brazil ahead of an election because of struggle in earlier decades with runaway price rises of as much as 2,500%</description>
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<title>Argentina reveals payment offer to holdouts</title>
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<description>Legal fight over the country’s nearly $100bn default in 2001 has raised fears that sovereign restructurings could become far harder in future</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2013 13:30:42 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Brazil: Humbled heavyweight</title>
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<description>The growth that made the nation Latin America’s economic champion has stalled and the government is searching for revival measures, writes Joe Leahy</description>
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<description>Dollars to be auctioned to businesses selling food, medicine and other basic goods in import-dependent Venezuela in attempt to tackle black market</description>
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<description>After talks, authorities are preparing to reduce the tax burden on ethanol from R$120 ($62) per cubic metre to R$25, according to industry insider</description>
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<title>US judges are jeopardising global finance</title>
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<description>A US federal court ruling punishes twice those who contributed to Argentina’s restructuring in favour of the free riders, writes David Martinez</description>
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<title>Argentina given month to make debt offer</title>
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<description>US appeals court orders Buenos Aires to explain by March 29 what kind of payment formula for holdout creditors it would be prepared to accept</description>
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<title>Argentine bond litigation sparks default fears</title>
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<description>The appeals court is expected to issue its final ruling within weeks on the case involving the binding of third parties not to help the government avoid paying holdout creditors.</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 00:28:21 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Argentina in no hurry to devalue peso</title>
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<description>Government is not likely to tackle the artificially strong currency, which has been accused of hurting competitiveness, before the October elections</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 16:27:40 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Caracas warns businesses on price rises</title>
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<description>Venezuela has insisted that devaluation will not increase inflation as the black market price for dollars rises to a record high</description>
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<title>Buffett’s Brazilian partners</title>
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<description>Based in New York, but firmly grounded in Brazil, 3G leapt into the limelight in September 2010 when it made a successful $3.25bn bid for Burger King</description>
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<title>Venezuela devalues bolívar by 32%</title>
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<description>The move is expected to ease pressure on strained fiscal accounts but is also likely to fuel inflation, which is running at about 20%</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 23:38:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Argentina refuses Vale’s call for tax breaks</title>
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<description>Buenos Aires sets deadline for restarting work on potash project after Vale put Rio Colorado venture on hold indefinitely in December</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 23:41:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Argentina proposes new debt swap</title>
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<description>Argentina has told a US court due to rule on whether it must pay more than $1bn to holders of its defaulted debt that its bank reserves are not an ‘open till’</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2013 23:23:45 GMT</pubDate>
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