Andres Oppenheimer
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New president picks too many fights
BC-OPPENHEIMER-COLUMN:MI: (1088 words) Andres Oppenheimer Download: Preview | Text | Web-Ready HTML When Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner won her country's elections last year, I wrote that she was likely to be an improvement over her predecessor and husband Nestor Kirchner. I was wrong. Five months after taking office, Fernandez.. May/15/2008 11:38 AM |
Democrats wrong on cutting Mexican anti-drug aid
BC-OPPENHEIMER-COLUMN:MI: (1109 words) Andres Oppenheimer Download: Preview | Text | Web-Ready HTML 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. Until now,... May/12/2008 10:32 AM |
Will vote in Bolivia spur separatism moves abroad?
BC-OPPENHEIMER-COLUMN:MI: (1096 words) Andres Oppenheimer Download: Preview | Text | Web-Ready HTML 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... May/8/2008 11:02 AM |
McCain wrong to embrace immigration hawks
BC-OPPENHEIMER-COLUMN:MI: (1037 words) Andres Oppenheimer Download: Preview | Text | Web-Ready HTML 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. In a 15-minute telephone interview during his April... May/5/2008 12:36 PM |
Autonomy vote will not likely lead to Bolivia split
BC-OPPENHEIMER-COLUMN:MI: (1113 words) Andres Oppenheimer Download: Preview | Text | Web-Ready HTML 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... May/1/2008 10:22 AM |
Uribe risks losing moral authority with another run
BC-OPPENHEIMER-COLUMN:MI: (1101 words) Andres Oppenheimer Download: Preview | Text | Web-Ready HTML BOGOTA, Colombia - During an extended interview with President Alvaro Uribe last week, I asked him five times whether he will seek to change the constitution and re-elect himself for a third term. Five times, he didn't answer. Before I tell you my... Apr/28/2008 11:24 AM |
Top Paraguay threat: Nation may crumble
BC-OPPENHEIMER-COLUMN:MI: (1088 words) Andres Oppenheimer Download: Preview | Text | Web-Ready HTML Political satirist P.J. O'Rourke wrote a few years ago that Paraguay is a country in the middle of "nowhere and famous for nothing." So why should we care about Paraguay?, I asked one of the leading U.S. experts on Paraguay shortly after Sunday's... Apr/24/2008 10:19 AM |
Pope is right on immigrants
BC-OPPENHEIMER-COLUMN:MI: (1147 words) Andres Oppenheimer Download: Preview | Text | Web-Ready HTML Pope Benedict XVI's calls for humane treatment of undocumented immigrants during his trip to the United States got anti-immigration zealots more riled up than usual. Good! I'm beginning to like this pope. Soon after the pope called on Americans to... Apr/21/2008 10:48 AM |
Latin America scores badly in Internet ranking
BC-OPPENHEIMER-COLUMN:MI: (1068 words) Andres Oppenheimer Download: Preview | Text | Web-Ready HTML Latin America's biggest problem may not be Venezuela's narcissist-Leninist leader Hugo Chavez nor other populists who are grabbing the headlines, but the region's stagnation in the global race for greater Internet connectivity and knowledge-based... Apr/17/2008 10:35 AM |
The race is on for U.S. secretary of state
BC-OPPENHEIMER-COLUMN:MI: (1185 words) Andres Oppenheimer Download: Preview | Text | Web-Ready HTML While the world is watching the Obama vs. Clinton race for the Democratic nomination, other well-known Democrats are unofficially campaigning for secretary of state - and offering big plans for Latin America. In recent days, I - and most likely... Apr/14/2008 10:16 AM |
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