Columbus toppled as indigenous people rise up after five centuries
Explorer’s reputation is victim of region’s pink tide of leftwing governments Rory Carroll in Caracas and Lola Almudevar in Sucre
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Month: October 2007
Trade More with South America to Counter Chavez, Experts Say
Kevin Mooney Staff Writer (CNSNews.com) – Free trade agreements can help forge alliances with Latin American nations eager to push
Read MoreArgentina: At the Cusp of Change, Or, Continuity
- A tumultuous past, a potentially problematic future
- The candidates and projections of their political fate
- What will another Kirchner presidency mean for Argentina?
- Ideas about the nation's future
- Peronist-bred mystifications go on
With the presidential elections coming up on October 28, Argentina is astir with speculation regarding its top candidates. First Lady and president presumptive, Senator Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, maintains first place in the polls, followed by Elisa Carrió, an outspoken critic of the current Kirchner administration, and Roberto Lavagna, former economy minister to that administration as well as the man credited with pulling Argentina out of its recent economic nightmare. The upcoming election, aside from all its innate drama, marks a very important milestone for the future of the Argentine polity as well as its economy.
Read MoreHundreds of Cuban medical workers defecting to U.S. while overseas
By Tal Abbady | South Florida Sun-Sentinel October 10, 2007 The Cuban government’s plan was for Beny Alfonso Rodriguez to
Read MoreColombia: The Multi-faceted Motivation of the FARC and Prospects for Peace
• The Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) claim to be fighting for social justice, but in the minds of
Read MoreThe Dominican Republic Pursues Modernity and Rectitude
- Fernández offer some macro success at the expense of high quality rule
- Big obstacles along the way
- CAFTA to thunder ahead as Arias' Costa Rica squeezes out a narrow pro-free trade victory
The Dominican Republic (DR) has been undergoing a profound transformation beginning at the end of the last century. With an increasingly prosperous economy, stable political institutions, and a booming tourism industry, it seems that the DR is well prepared to be perceived as one of the most successful modernizing countries in the early years of this century. However, the picture becomes more complicated upon analyzing the country's prevailing social and economic features. Issues ranging from a poor health system, a pattern of ill-treatment of Haitian refugees illegally in the country, energy shortages, and under-performing educational facilities blot its credentials; however, this is not to say that the current administration, headed by Leonel Fernández of the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD), has not fulfilled some of its objectives. Yet while economic indicators are favorable, he is losing popularity because he is being viewed by many as being indifferent to the plight of the poor and small farmers, and too allied with foreign multi-nationals, not to mention botching up his controversial metro project.
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