Brazil and Southern Cone

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• Brazil & Southern Cone - January 2011 (ISSN 1741-4431)

  Dilma – echoes of Piñera? The ground literally shook under President Sebastián Piñera’s inauguration in Valparaíso on March 11 2010, as...

• Brazil & Southern Cone - February 2011 (ISSN 1741-4431)

  Argentina’s diplomacy ‘a la Timerman’ Never before had the US government been forced to sift through Twitter updates to separate the...

• Brazil & Southern Cone - March 2011 (ISSN 1741-4431)

  Obama charms Brazil President Barack Obama’s trip to Brazil over the weekend of 19-20 March was judged a success and an important symbolic...

• Brazil & Southern Cone - April 2011 (ISSN 1741-4431)

  Uruguay: Falling into a Kantian trapOften cited (along with Chile) as a regional example of a successful and peaceful transition to democracy...

• Brazil & Southern Cone - May 2011 (ISSN 1741-4431)

  Paraguay, closer to becoming the region

• Brazil & Southern Cone - June 2011 (ISSN 1741-4431)

  Rousseff holds her nose and dives into coalition politics For all the talk of a new era in Brazilian politics, recent weeks have looked all too...

• Brazil & Southern Cone - July 2011 (ISSN 1741-4431)

• Brazil & Southern Cone - January 2009 (ISSN 1741-4431)

  Divisions could cost ruling Frente Amplio elections in Uruguay The ruling Frente Amplio (FA) coalition is in danger of losing October’s...

• Brazil & Southern Cone - February 2009 (ISSN 1741-4431)

  Brazil still loves Lula, but Serra is president-in-waiting President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s popularity remains unassailable. In fact,...

• Brazil & Southern Cone - March 2009 (ISSN 1741-4431)

  Kirchnerismo in decline? The authority of Kirchnerismo is weakening. A year ago the ruling Frente Para la Victoria (FPV) boasted a comfortable...

• Brazil & Southern Cone - April 2009 (ISSN 1741-4431)

  The Kirchners gamble on early elections Faced with the very real possibility of defeat in mid-term congressional elections in October,...

• Brazil & Southern Cone - May 2009 (ISSN 1741-4431)

  Lugo faces first big political test in wake of paternity allegations President Fernando Lugo had to put the celebrations marking the first...

• Brazil & Southern Cone - June 2009 (ISSN 1741-4431)

  A dissident socialist deputy, Marco Antonio Enríquez-Ominami, surged past Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, the presidential candidate of the ruling ...

• Brazil & Southern Cone - July 2009 (ISSN 1741-4431)

  Kirchners’ mid-term defeat opens up political field The government’s comprehensive defeat in the 28 June mid-term congressional elections...

• Brazil & Southern Cone - August 2009 (ISSN 1741-4431)

  Brazil finds a role for the Mercosur Brazil signalled that it now sees that its role in the Mercosur is not only to buy natural resources from its...

• Brazil & Southern Cone - September 2009 (ISSN 1741-4431)

  Lula’s optimistic claims for Unasur The 28 August extraordinary presidential summit of the 12-member Union of South American Nations (Unasur)...

• Brazil & Southern Cone - October 2009 (ISSN 1741-4431)

  How different would a Piñera government be? The opinion polls for Chile’s presidential election still point to a decisive, second-round...

• Brazil & Southern Cone - November 2009 (ISSN 1741-4431)

  Is Brazil fuelling the perceived South American arms race? Increased arms purchases by South American countries have prompted much talk about an...

• Brazil & Southern Cone - December 2009 (ISSN 1741-4431)

  Brazil challenges the US in Latin America Although Presidents Lula da Silva and Barack Obama established a warm rapport at the outset of 2009,...

• Brazil & Southern Cone - 25 January 2005

  The race for La Moneda begins in earnestA year ago a Public Studies Center opinion poll, published in 'The Washington Times' on 15 January 2004, put...

• Brazil & Southern Cone - February 2005

  Cubas killing triggers political upheaval and shake up of security forcesThe discovery of the body of Cecilia Cubas, daughter of a former Paraguayan...

• Brazil & Southern Cone - March 2005

  US pressures Kirchner to redefine Argentine foreign policyPresident Néstor Kirchner has made his position very clear when it comes to domestic...

• Southern Cone - 1 July 2003

  Rejuvenated Mercosur commits to agenda of broadening and deepening.The member states of the Mercosur trading bloc will launch an ambitious agenda to...

• Brazil - 8 July 2003

  The honeymoon is over for President Lula da SilvaIt is not a crisis yet, but it has all the potential to become one. President Lula da Silva's...

• Brazil & Southern Cone - 12 August 2003

  Lula drives through pension reform bill, damages coalitionPresident Lula da Silva's government has begun to make headway on the first of the two...

• Brazil & Southern Cone - 30 September 2003

  Kirchner's power not yet assured The recent set of regional elections has offered President Néstor Kirchner two valuable opportunities. First,...

• Brazil & Southern Cone - 28 October 2003

  Buenos Aires Consensus heralds Mercosul renaissanceThe Buenos Aires Consensus, signed on 16 October by Brazil’s President Lula da Silva and his...

• Brazil & Southern Cone - 25 November 2003

  Lula in race to approve basic reforms this yearPresident Lula da Silva’s government is in a race against time to approve by the end of December...

• Brazil & Southern Cone - 23 December 2003

  `Piqueteros' fail to expose Kirchner’s uncertaintyArgentina’s President Néstor Kirchner survived a major test on 20 December, when the...

• Brazil & Southern Cone - April 2005 (ISSN 1741-4431)

  Rio, the case study for Brazilian successViolent crime in Rio de Janeiro, as in most of Brazil, hardly makes the headlines these days. The random...

• Brazil & Southern Cone - May 2005 (ISSN 1741-4431)

  Piñera joins Chile’s race for the presidency and Alvear quitsA presidential election promising little excitement was enlivened in May by the...

• Brazil & Southern Cone - June 2005 (ISSN 1741-4431)

  Bribery scandal taints PT's imageAllegations that the ruling Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) bribed allied congressmen to win support for the...

• Brazil & Southern Cone - July 2005 (ISSN 1741-4431)

  PJ splits as Kirchner and Duhalde fail to cut a dealPresident Néstor Kirchner is gambling a lot on the legislative elections on 23 October. Having...

• Brazil & Southern Cone - August 2005 (ISSN 1741-4431)

  What the future holds for LulaRecent allegations point to the direct involvement of President Lula da Silva in the corruption scandals that have...

• Brazil & Southern Cone - September 2005 (ISSN 1741-4431)

  PT leadership contest exposes divisionsOn 18 September the ruling Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) held its internal election to choose the party's...

• Brazil & Southern Cone - October 2005 (ISSN 1741-4431)

  Kirchner wins but no lower house majorityPresident Néstor Kirchner got the decisive victory he was looking for in the legislative elections on 23...

• Brazil & Southern Cone - November 2005 (ISSN 1741-4431)

  Palocci on the lineThe Brazilian finance minister, Antonio Palocci, continues to be a target for the opposition, despite rejecting the corruption...

• Brazil & Southern Cone - December 2005 (ISSN 1741-4431)

  Disappointing Bachelet victory gives Piñera hope for second roundSeveral months back a number of opinion polls were cautiously predicting Michelle...

• Brazil & Southern Cone - 27 January 2004

  Lula sacks six ministers and appoints communist to key post President Lula da Silva showed a steely side to his character on 23 January by...

• Brazil & Southern Cone - 24 February 2004

  Lula rocked by campaign-funding scandalsThe government of President Lula da Silva is not quite fighting for its life, but it is struggling with its...

• Brazil & Southern Cone - 30 March 2004

  Campaign-funding scandal gets stickierThe government's refusal to accept a congressional inquiry into the campaign-funding scandal [RBS-04-02] has...

• Brazil & Southern Cone - 20 April 2004

  Argentine energy shortages leave region proneArgentine's energy crisis is entering a new phase. The onset of winter and falling temperatures are...

• Brazil & Southern Cone - 11 May 2004

  Massacre may lead to ‘opening’ of Indian landsThe early-April massacre of at least 29 illegal miners in an Indian reservation is being used by...

• Brazil & Southern Cone - 29 June 2004

  Lula: the cost of failing to deliverIt is usual for a president’s approval rating, particularly when it starts out very high, to fall after a year...

• Brazil & Southern Cone - 27 July 2004

  Mercosur: São Paulo vs Lula’s grand schemeThe early-July Mercosur summit in Puerto Iguazú was a high point for President Lula da Silva’s...

• Brazil & Southern Cone - 24 August 2004

  BRAZIL: PT upturn threatened by new scandalIn just under a month, the political prospects of the ruling Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) appeared to...

• Brazil & Southern Cone - 28 September 2004

  São Paulo sets trend for October pollsThe Lula administration has done the media, and particularly political commentators, a great favour. It has...

• Brazil & Southern Cone - 26 October 2004

  Vázquez should win by a whisker but turnout will be decisiveMost political commentators are hedging their bets over the outcome of the presidential...

• Brazil & Southern Cone - 23 November 2004

  Confronting the US on regional securityEven before the defence ministers of the hemisphere met in Quito on 17 November, Brazilian officials were...

• Brazil & Southern Cone - 21 December 2004

  Challenges shape up for Lula's second half-termThe formal departure from Lula's ruling coalition of two important allies - the Partido do Movimento...