Let Mexico’s moguls battle
Mexico suffers from two near-monopolies. It should let them fight each other(43)
Monday February 6th 2012
Mexico's monopolies
Haitian politics
Just what the Doc ordered
A former dictator is let off easy for human-rights abuses(9)
Canada's economy
Look out below
After years of lecturing America about loose lending, Canada now must confront a bubble of its own(62)
Sports in Latin America
Draft dodgers no more
Can baseball in the Dominican Republic avoid Puerto Rico’s fate?(6)
Chile's economy
The shine comes off
The antitrust regulator exposes collusion in a host of industries(15)
Mexico’s drug war
Plateaus and pitfalls
How much should be read into a slowdown in the rise of the murder rate?(13)
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Ecuador’s retirement capital
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Youth orchestras in Venezuela
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Lima’s metro
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Fernando Henrique Cardoso on Brazil's future
More personal security, less inequality
Our São Paulo bureau chief talks with the former president about Brazil's challenges and its increasing global power
What we're reading
The loneliness of the Guyanas (Opinionator)
Why South America's Caribbean coast is full of border disputes
Reversal of fortune (New Yorker)
Did a crusading lawyer go too far in helping Ecuadorans secure a huge environmental judgment against Chevron?
Iran tries to gain sway in Latin America (Wall Street Journal)
The mullahs test the Monroe doctrine
Magnificent visions (Vanity Fair)
Finding the source of ayahuasca
Highlights
Publishing in Latin America
A literary deficit
Brazil apart, publishers are struggling to persuade the growing middle class to read more books
Fiction from Argentina
The price of love
The junta’s policy of eliminating its enemies still fascinates Argentina’s novelists
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