THE OPPENHEIMER REPORT
An old Latin American curse that many thought had been defeated for good -- inflation -- is making a comeback in several countries, and it may soon translate into greater poverty, and more economic and political instability.
DEMOCRATS
There is a fierce behind-the-scenes battle for influence over presumptive Democratic candidate Barack Obama's Hispanic and Latin American agenda, and some Democratic strategists say that its outcome could determine the result of the November elections.
THE OPPENHEIMER REPORT
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's recent comment that Americans should get their children to study Spanish or another second language has drawn an avalanche of criticism from English-only advocates and cable television anti-immigration zealots.
THE OPPENHEIMER REPORT
MEXICO CITY -- For several years, this column has championed the idea that Mexico -- and Latin America in general -- could become a huge medical tourism destination for millions of Americans seeking more affordable healthcare, or simply wanting more personalized medical attention.
MEXICO CITY -- For several years, this column has championed the idea that Mexico -- and Latin America in general -- could become a huge medical tourism destination for millions of Americans seeking more affordable healthcare, or simply wanting more personalized medical attention.
THE OPPENHEIMER REPORT
Don't be fooled by the legal shenanigans surrounding Ecuador's populist President Rafael Correa's seizure of 195 companies from a Miami-based family involved in a major banking scandal in the 1990s.
THE OPPENHEIMER REPORT
The biggest loser of last week's Hollywood-styled Colombian army rescue of 15 hostages in the hands of the FARC guerrillas, in addition to the rebels themselves, was Venezuela's narcissist-Leninist President Hugo Chávez.
THE OPPENHEIMER REPORT
MEXICO CITY -- When I asked Mexican President Felipe Calderón about Democratic presumptive presidential candidate Barack Obama's pledge to renegotiate the U.S. free trade agreement with Mexico, I expected him to say that such a move would be catastrophic for Mexico.
THE OPPENHEIMER REPORT
Of all the challenges that presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama will face to win the November elections, one of the biggest ones will be conquering the Hispanic vote.
THE OPPENHEIMER REPORT
Every now and then, you come across some news that makes you think there is a golden future ahead for Latin America -- or at least for part of it.
THE OPPENHEIMER REPORT
While most of us were looking elsewhere, the U.S. Congress passed a 2008 farm bill that could hardly be worse: it subsidizes rich U.S. farmers, hurts most American consumers, poisons the environment, doesn't help alleviate world hunger and harms Latin American and other world food producers.
THE OPPENHEIMER REPORT
Bravo! A new study has found widespread fear-mongering and reckless journalism by cable television hosts such as CNN's Lou Dobbs and Fox News' Bill O'Reilly, who have made a career of bashing Hispanic undocumented immigrants and their home countries.
THE OPPENHEIMER REPORT
Likely Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, who has never visited Latin America, has done his homework. When I last interviewed him about U.S.-Latin American relations 10 months ago, Obama had trouble naming any head of state south of the U.S. border, and looked like a deer in the headlights when asked about the region's headlines of the day.
THE OPPENHEIMER REPORT
Question of the day: Why hasn't 34-country Organization of American States chief José Miguel Insulza called for the regional group's investigation into the thousands of Interpol-verified computer files indicating that Venezuela and Ecuador are actively supporting Colombia's FARC guerrillas?
THE OPPENHEIMER REPORT
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and his Ecuadorean counterpart Rafael Correa can scream and yell as loud as they want, but the fact is that they have been caught red-handed supporting a terrorist group that is trying to topple the democratically elected government of Colombia.
THE OPPENHEIMER REPORT
When Argentina's President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner won her country's elections last year, I wrote that she was likely to be an improvement over her predecessor and husband Néstor Kirchner. I was wrong.
THE OPPENHEIMER REPORT
The murder of the acting chief of Mexico's federal police amid an unprecedented wave of drug gang attacks on security officials will soon become a major issue in the U.S. presidential candidates' escalating war for Hispanic votes.
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The 84 percent victory of pro-autonomy forces in Sunday's referendum called by Bolivia's wealthy eastern province of Santa Cruz in open defiance of that country's central government has triggered fears of a chain reaction of separatist movements throughout Latin America.
THE OPPENHEIMER REPORT
When I interviewed likely Republican candidate Sen. John McCain last week, I was left with the distinct impression that he is moving steadily backward from his once progressive stand on immigration.
THE OPPENHEIMER REPORT
The way Bolivia's leftist President Evo Morales puts it, South America's poorest country is threatened by a U.S.-backed oligarchic movement in the eastern province of Santa Cruz that wants to secede from the rest of the nation through an ''autonomy referendum'' on Sunday.
