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...world of trade negotiations, Cancún is already legendary. In September, as Caribbean waves lapped the beach outside their hotel, Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim handed U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick a new set of demands from a coalition of 22 developing countries, led by Brazil, China and India. If the U.S., the E.U. and other developed nations failed to slash their hundreds of billions in agriculture tariffs and subsidies, the poorer nations would refuse to discuss issues dear to the rich, like investment rules and intellectual-property rights. Zoellick stood up, Amorim recalls, and said that while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lula's Next Big Fight | 11/16/2003 | See Source »

...reason why Bolivians last month forced free- marketeer President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada to resign. In Peru, the polling firm APOYO has found that only around one-third of voters agreed with their government's decision to take Peru out of the G-22. Lula and Brazil have harnessed decades of pent-up frustration with hefty U.S. tariffs. For example, Brazil and the U.S. together produce 90% of the world's orange juice. Brazil exports all but 1% of its juice, while Americans guzzle 68 million glasses a day - a more than $3 billion market. But to protect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lula's Next Big Fight | 11/16/2003 | See Source »

Eastern Europe is now playing catch-up. Poland has one of the world's fastest-growing cardboard-box industries. But the region in which box manufacturing is expanding most rapidly (20% over the past five years) is in Central and South America, says industry analyst Paul Bailin. Brazil, Costa Rica and others are building box factories to export avocados, coffee and other produce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Commerce: Trade Maker | 10/27/2003 | See Source »

...evidence that Latin America's backlash against globalization - especially the capitalist reforms that have so far done more harm than good for the region's 500 million people in poverty - could revive the failed left-wing economic policies that provoked those free-market reforms in the first place. Brazil, for example, last year elected former labor leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as President. In Peru, antiglobalization riots (most often prompted by complaints over industry privatization) have become common. And the "Bolivarian Revolution" of left-wing Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has brought double-digit economic contraction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Now That Goni Is Gone | 10/19/2003 | See Source »

...York City, which were strict about accepting only adult volunteers. Her high school, Midwood High, despite being surrounded by the pressing conditions of the city, never ventured out with a strong student service program. After doing what she could from Midwood, Hammond ended up volunteering in Sao Paolo, Brazil through the Legion of Good Will...

Author: By Matthew J. Amato, Meghan M. Dolan, and Lily X. Huang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Volunteerism at Harvard | 10/2/2003 | See Source »

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