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Lula calls on leaders to attend climate talks
Brazil’s president has challenged other world leaders to attend next month’s climate talks in Copenhagen to break the deadlock in negotiations to cut greenhouse gas emissions
Lex: US health insurers
For the managed care companies at the centre of America’s health system, the political horse-trading has sent their shares gyrating
Chávez fails to deliver power to the people
Venezuelans in the capital are bracing themselves for drastic rationing as public services in the oil-rich nation sink ever deeper into crisis, threatening to undermine President Hugo Chávez’s support
Honduran rivals agree a deal to end crisis
Honduras’s de facto government has bowed to US pressure, accepting a deal that stands to end the four-month political crisis and possibly even reinstate Manuel Zelaya as the country’s president.
Leftist Uruguay regime faces run-off
Uruguayans will have to wait a month to resolve who will be their next president after polls left José Mujica of the Frente Amplio party short of the required majority for an outright win
Efficiency tops agenda for Chile’s Piñera
Sebastián Piñera looks set to end 19 years of left-wing rule as he runs on a platform of improving and ‘maintaining the network of social protection’ built by previous governments
Editorial: Fatal attraction
Foreign investors buoyed up Brazil’s currency – until the government placed a 2 per cent tax on portfolio inflows. Though offended investors let the real slip, this was a good choice by the state
Cubans balk at ending of food rations
As the country battles a liquidity crisis and shrinking production, the government has upset citizens with its attempt to repair the battered economy by cutting subsidies
Editorial Comment: Voting twice in Afghanistan
The decision to call a second round of elections in Afghanistan was all but inevitable. But it is a high-risk strategy in the effort to produce a government that will be seen as legitimate
Uribe faces ‘crossroads of soul’
The Colombian president enjoys sky-high approval ratings and would be a certain winner if he ran for a third term in 2010, but doing so would not be without risk
