Topic: South America
LIMA (Reuters) - Peruvian leftists who supported President Ollanta Humala for years are leaving the government and may stop supporting him in Congress, saying his emerging authoritarian tone amounts to a further drift to the right.At least two high-profile leftist aides who ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior congressional Democrat said on Tuesday he expected Congress to pass three trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama, despite his own strong concerns about the Colombia deal."I think they will most likely pass and I'm simply ...
BOGOTA (Reuters) - A judge jailed the suspended mayor of Colombia's capital, Bogota, on Friday while he is on trial on charges he took bribes to award public works contracts.Federal prosecutors in May suspended leftist Samuel Moreno from his post, viewed as ...
The US Senate on Tuesday rejected a Republican push to expand President Barack Obama's powers to negotiate trade deals, amid a broader fight over accords with Colombia, Panama, and South Korea.With those three deals edging towards approval in the divided US Congress, ...
Peru's President Ollanta Humala signed into law a measure requiring that indigenous people be consulted before any mining, timber or petroleum projects are begun on their traditional lands."What we want to do with this law is have the voice of indigenous people ...
Leftist former army officer Ollanta Humala was sworn in Thursday as president of Peru, aiming to confront the high poverty plaguing his Andean nation despite its solid economic growth."We want to erase the word 'social exclusion' from our vocabulary and our reality ...
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's public battle with cancer has added to his global fame but it may also weaken his already waning influence in Latin America and beyond.For years the 56-year-old socialist leader was the flagbearer for a wave ...
RIO DE JANEIRO/LIMA (Reuters) - It was a political pilgrimage that surprised no one.Within days of winning Peru's presidential election, Ollanta Humala flew to Brazil to learn more about its success over the past decade and meet former President Luiz Inacio Lula ...
Leftist ex-military man Ollanta Humala looked set to win Peru's presidency, according to first estimates, after a tight battle with Keiko Fujimori, heir to a jailed, authoritarian ex-president.Supporters of the 48-year-old former lieutenant colonel Humala, who just lost out in the 2006 ...
Leftist ex-soldier Ollanta Humala led the first round for Peru's presidency Monday as Keiko Fujimori, daughter of the jailed ex-president, and liberal Pedro Pablo Kuczynski fought to join him in a runoff.Humala, 48, who just missed out on the 2006 presidency, won ...
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