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...That may be a dream too far, but many in the audience will have acknowledged that the bearded, gravelly voiced President has been a revelation. When he was first elected in 2002, many U.S. experts on Latin America worried that he and his leftist Workers Party would trash Brazil's economy by pursuing socialist and populist policies. But Lula stuck to the market-oriented fiscal reforms of his predecessor, Fernando Henrique Cardoso. Those policies, plus a windfall from high global prices for Brazilian products like soybeans and steel, helped Lula tame the country's notorious hyperinflation and create a boom...
...Harvard graduate students were robbed at gunpoint while walking along Cambridge Street near Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School early yesterday morning, according to a community advisory sent out by the Harvard University Police Department. The two victims reported that they were approached by an unknown individual who displayed a handgun and demanded their wallets at approximately 1:20 a.m., according to the advisory. The victims gave up their wallets and a cell phone before the individual fled the area. HUPD officers responded to a call placed by the victims. Neither student was injured during the incident. They described...
...From this, much of the Spanish press has concluded that the Republican candidate, who hails himself as the experienced foreign policy choice in this election, confused Spain - a NATO member and key ally in the fight against terrorism - with one of those troublesome Latin American states. That was certainly the interviewer's impression, for she followed up with a gentle reminder that Spain was a country in Europe. As Spanish newspaper El País put it, "In the best-case scenario, [his answer] demonstrates his ignorance with respect to Zapatero...
Despite the frantic efforts of Latin American diplomats to broker a truce, many Bolivians see the political violence that has shaken their country over the past week as the opening salvos of a civil war. "There isn't a bone in her body that's not broken," says Narda Baqueros, a mother of three who traveled 15 hours to the town of Cobija to retrieve the body of her niece Belki Paz Baqueros on Monday. In her mid-20s and three months pregnant, Belki was beaten to death early Friday morning by opponents of Bolivia's leftist President Evo Morales...
...help brokering a solution from abroad. Although he kicked out U.S. Ambassador Philip Goldberg last week, accusing him of fomenting conflict, the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) has rallied to his support. At an emergency meeting on Sunday to discuss the crisis, the presidents of nine Latin American countries gave Morales their full support, and offered to send a team to mediate. "The fundamental, legitimate basis of Bolivian democracy is the government of President Evo Morales and the territorial integrity of the country and that should not be questioned at any moment," read the declaration from Bolivia's neighbors...