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...euro was worth 1.46 dollars, according to the Bloomberg currency exchange. Students abroad this term made their decision to leave last March, when the outlook wasn’t quite so bleak. Christina L. Elmore ’09 said that when she changed her study abroad destination from Argentina to Spain, she considered the exchange rate, but didn’t think it would make a major difference. “I knew it would be a little more expensive,” Elmore said. “When I first got there, things weren?...
...head of the student movement that led the opposition to Chvez at the referendum. Indeed, it was Chvez's electrifying emergence that paved the way for the election in this decade of other leftist heads of state, like Brazil's Luiz Incio Lula da Silva, Argentina's Nstor Kirchner and Chile's Michelle Bachelet, even if Chvez affects to disdain their moderate, market-oriented socialism. Sunday's humbling results will make Chvez a less swaggering figure on the hemispheric scene, yet a little humility onhis part may make his neighbors more receptive...
...fact, it was Chvez's electrifying emergence a decade ago that paved the way for the election in this decade of other, albeit more moderate leftist heads of state like Brazil's Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Argentina's Nestor Kirchner and Chile's Michelle Bachelet. Venezuelans may be reminding Chvez that, like his revolution's namesake, 19th-century independence hero Simon Bolivar, he stands to have a positive place secured in Latin America history. Their message on Sunday: Don't blow...
...Oxford, paid for his Tibet trip piecemeal by serializing articles about it. There is Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the thoughtful French aviator who piloted his way around Algerian skies and Saharan camels before becoming at one point—randomly—director of the Aeroposta Argentina Company...
...Presidents and Chvez allies Evo Morales and Rafael Correa are hammering out new Constitutions that would let them run for re-election indefinitely. In Nicaragua, President Daniel Ortega, hoping to relive the broad Marxist powers he enjoyed as President in the 1980s, is ruling virtually by decree. In Argentina, many suspect that the leftist husband-and-wife team of outgoing President Nestor Kirchner and President-elect Cristina Fernndez de Kirchner intend to alternate in the Casa Rosada (the Pink House, or presidential palace) well into the next decade if not beyond. And in Colombia, supporters of conservative President...