Latin America and the financial crisis (a Cuban perspective)

" Nidia Díaz THE eruption of the global financial crisis, unprecedented since the time of the Great Depression of the 1930s, has occurred in the very heart of the capitalist system, in the center of the U.S....

UNASUR is born among regional division and disputes (Updated II)

Caracas, Venezuela, 23 May 2008. Today at Brasilia, Brazil, South America President formally signed a treaty to constitute the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR). This new supranational body was...

Bank of the South kicks off with US$20.000 millions

Caracas, Venezuela, 26 April, 2008.  On Friday 25 April 2008, the Ministers for Economy or Finance of Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Uruguay, Paraguay and Venezuela held a meeting at Montevideo. In the...

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