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Mexico claims progress in war on drugs
Genaro García Luna, Mexico’s minister of public security and the country’s top security official, has claimed significant advances in the country’s fight against drugs
Smoking ban sucks life out of cantinas
The air in Mexico City’s traditional watering holes may be cleaner, but there is growing concern that new rules banning smoking in public places may prove fatal for one of the city’s traditional symbols of popular culture
WTO slaps down US anti-dumping procedure
A method known as “zeroing” used by the US in anti-dumping investigations and reviews was slapped down by the top court of the World Trade Organisation
Paraguay leader plans energy incentives
President-elect Fernando Lugo considers offering free energy to lure potential investors and selling government stakes in public monopolies to boost economic development
Morales sees threat from ‘separatist’ groups
Evo Morales, Bolivia’s president, says powerful landowning families are attempting to preserve their privileges by destabilising his socialist government’s reform programme
Daunting tasks face new Paraguay leader
Fernando Lugo, the former bishop who was elected president of Paraguay in a landslide victory over the world’s longest ruling party on Sunday, now faces the monumental task of resurrecting his country
Brazil’s oil discovery spurs industry review
The sight of a giant oil rig being towed past may not be what tourists on Brazil’s south-east coast most want to see, but if reports of a coming transformation of Brazil’s oil industry are to be believed, they had better get used to it
Pemex bill goes to Mexico congress
Mexico’s Congress will begin debating a long-awaited energy reform bill that the government hopes will reverse the country’s declining oil production and ensure long-term self-sufficiency
Cuban farmers embrace ministry reform
Five weeks into the presidency of Raúl Castro, the government’s first moves have shown latitude on economic issues but no desire to loosen the state’s control in other areas
Buenos Aires stands firm on tariffs
The Argentine government rejected demands that it change controversial agricultural export tariffs which have helped push up world soy prices 10 per cent and brought thousands of demonstrators on to the streets of Buenos Aires
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