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Another problem is national politics. Early last year, Argentina's government terminated a contract with a Suez-led consortium that was providing water services to Buenos Aires. The company also lost its contract to provide water to El Alto and La Paz, Bolivia, after massive protests beginning in 2003 over limited access for poor families. The leader of those protests, Abel Mamani, is the Minister of Water in the government of Evo Morales...
...Argentina 64% negative Greece 78% negative...
...things change when you switch continents for a semester.I’m not talking about the language barriers, time zone differences, or weather changes I encountered upon arriving in Buenos Aires, Argentina, two weeks ago.I’m referencing the meteoric rise of the Harvard women’s basketball team, a squad that limped to a 2-11 start in the non-conference slate before torching the Ivy League with a 13-1 conference mark.When I left Cambridge, the Crimson was just beginning conference play in late January. A shocking road loss at Yale...
...little else, President Bush has learned one valuable thing about Latin America since his last visit to the region: how to duck the protests. In 2005, at the Summit of the Americas in Mar del Plata, Argentina, Bush was greeted by violent demonstrations and angry speeches from leftist leaders like Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. But the five countries Bush has chosen for his six-day Latin America tour that starts today in Sao Paulo, Brazil, are led by either kindred conservatives or more moderate leftists. And the venues he's visiting are often far from metropolis hotbeds of anti-yanqui...
...help connect the Latin American community, according to founders Joshua Kushner ’08, Daniel E. Kafie ’05, and Harvard Business School student Mario T. Schlosser. Even though membership is currently by invitation only, Vostu.com has accrued over 600 members—mostly from Argentina, Peru, and Mexico—since it went public. While it includes features, such as photo albums, event planners, and blogs, common to other social networking portals, Kafie, a Honduran native, thinks that Latin Americans will prefer the “closer relationships” and “tighter groups?...