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...FERNANDO AGUIRRE Banana Booster After college, Aguirre, 46, passed up a tryout for the Cincinnati Reds to join the city's top business team, Procter & Gamble. Good choice. The Mexico native orchestrated one turnaround after another, like transforming P&G Brazil from a money loser into P&G's second most profitable Latin American subsidiary. In January, Aguirre became CEO of Chiquita Brands International, which left bankruptcy two years ago but is still struggling. Aguirre's plan: focus on marketing and value-added products, like the company's new fresh-cut-fruit business...
Former Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso warned against a one-size-fits-all approach to democracy in a speech at the JFK Jr. Forum last night...
When action star Fernando Poe Jr. announced he was running for President of the Philippines last week, the Manila stock market fell nearly 2% and the peso tanked to its lowest level in a century. The Central Bank governor quickly announced that the markets weren't freaking out over Poe alone but were reacting to "a series of events over the last four weeks." Indeed: a band of congressmen tried (unsuccessfully) to impeach the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court; the administration of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo saw a mini-exodus of officials, including respected Finance Secretary Jose Isidro Camacho...
...sign of Peru's and South America's failure to address the epic levels of rural poverty that worsened under the capitalist reforms of the 1990s. Since locking up Shining Path's leadership a decade ago, Peru "has not been sufficiently agile in implementing development programs," admits Interior Minister Fernando Rospigliosi, who oversees antiterrorism efforts. That's a key reason why Shining Path has reloaded its AK-47s now. But the group has also been aided in no small part by government hubris. After crowing that he'd vanquished Shining Path in the early '90s, then-President Alberto Fujimori enervated...
...only reason the Cardinals came even remotely close to a postseason berth. St. Louis would be rivaling the Texas Rangers if not for Pujols, considering the injury-plagued seasons of J.D. Drew and Fernando Vina, the subpar year by Jim Edmonds and a pitching staff that became mediocre overnight...