Topic: South America

National Front

Aspects of the topic National Front are discussed in the following places at Britannica. agreement in 1957 by the rival Colombian political leaders Alberto Lleras Camargo of the Liberals and Laureano Gomez of the Conservatives to form a coalition National Front government ...

Jorge Eliecer Gaitan

April 9, 1948, Bogota), political leader who was considered a champion of the Colombian people and was revered as a martyr after his assassination.. Gaitan studied law at the National University of Colombia, Bogota, and continued his studies in Rome. There he ...

US Senator warns may delay Brazil envoy

A key US Senator warned Tuesday he would delay Senate confirmation of President Barack Obama's nominee as ambassador to Brazil over his apparent support for ending a US tariff on ethanol imports. "As a senator and as a presidential candidate, President Obama ...
Bolivia president accuses Obama of lying after US cuts ends trade favors for BoliviaPresident Evo Morales on Wednesday accused Barack Obama of lying by pledging to change America's historically heavy-handed relationship with Latin America and then halting $25 million in annual trade ...
Prospects for reviving and approving US free trade pacts with Panama, Colombia and South Korea are " not good," Senate Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell warned Thursday.And US President Barack Obama "is sending all the wrong signals to the rest of the ...

Senator raps Obama stalling on trade deals

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States risks being " wallflowers at the dance" as other countries pursue trade deals while the Obama administration sits on the sidelines, a senior Republican senator said on Thursday.The Democratic Obama administration so far has only produced ...

Chavez, Ortega chide Obama over "stuck" Latam policy

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts (Reuters) - The presidents of Venezuela and Nicaragua, both fierce critics of U.S. policy, on Friday accused President Barack Obama of failing to deliver on his promise to make a new start in ties with Latin America.Venezuela's Hugo Chavez ...

Printing Matrices for Narrative of the U.S. Exploring Expedition

In 1836 the U.S. Congress authorized President Andrew Jackson " to send out a surveying and exploring expedition to the Pacific Ocean and South Seas. I-V) was written to follow the path of the three-year and ten-month expedition (1838-1842), which traveled from ...
El Salvador vote could bring former rebels to power for first time since civil warEl Salvador's former guerrillas, behind the bespectacled, moderate face of a former TV journalist, could take power for the first time since the nation's civil war in elections ...
Brazil's Silva expects Obama will talk to leaders of Venezuela, BoliviaBrazil's president said Friday he expects President-elect Barack Obama will meet with the leaders of Venezuela and Bolivia, expressing hope the new U.S. administration will mend fences with the South American leftists ...