Nowadays, Latin American governments are less hostile than in the past to the United States' drug war.
If new world trade talks looked likely to open agricultural markets (notably Europe's), to do that for Latin America would look less alarming.
Latin Americans should be less grudging in their diplomatic support for Colombia's democratic government, and put more pressure on the guerrillas to give up their violence.
At present, people in Asia and Latin America spend far less time in front of a screen, whether at home or in a cinema, than people in Europe--who in turn spend less time than Americans.
The trouble is that Europe is not, in fact, central to Latin Americans, and still less so far less so are they to it.
It is also crucial that other less developed countries, particularly those in Latin America, not be victimized by blatant preferential treatment accorded reforming East European countries when the former are, in several cases, in equally desperate financial need and at least as firmly set on a course of painful economic sacrifice.
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While trade has boomed, Chinese investment in Latin America has hitherto amounted to less than meets the eye.
The wider use of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has unleashed a vast supply of natural gas from the shale-rock formations across the U.S., forcing down domestic prices, cutting the need for overseas imports and making gas-exporting nations in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean a less important piece in the U.S. energy puzzle.
Buenos Aires is still much safer than other Latin American capitals, but it is less safe than it was.
Of the world's 1.1 billion Catholics, almost half a billion live in Latin America, where there has been less of a fall in piety than in Europe.
Moreover, compared to workers in those regions, Latin Americans tend to be better paid but less well educated.
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In Latin America, the war of ideas is no less intense than the war within the Arab and Muslim world between the radicals and the moderates.
With less mature, more illiquid markets, banks in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East face greater risks and constraints as they catch up to the Basel standards.
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Worldwide, less than 10% of the billionaires are women, while in Latin America about 19% of the billionaires are female.
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He traveled, though less extensively than John Paul, and presided over Masses that were heavy on Latin, Gregorian chant and the silk brocaded vestments of his pre-Vatican II predecessors.
Rowe Price Latin America ( PRLAX) , despite the 2% redemption fee for holding it less than a year.
Santander has staffed its Latin American operations with its own credit-risk specialists, who veto any loan that offers less than a risk-adjusted return of 20% a year.
The industry predicts demand will remain robust despite the price increases, as silver remains a less expensive alternative to gold for a lot of jewelry buyers, especially for consumers in emerging markets like Latin America.
Despite that, some companies have done well by going overseas, where the sector is less crowded, and Corduro might be able to distinguish itself if it focused on another market, such as Latin America, said the banker.
The move by Euro BETC may signify a less homogenized ad world, as the dominant Anglo-Saxon agencies start facing not only Gallic competition, but also Latin American and Asian competitors.
It says the outcome of the referendum means that Sweden and Britain are less likely to join the currency soon, and reinforces the division between what it calls a "continental, mostly Latin and Catholic" Europe and a northern Europe which is "protestant, market-oriented and free trading, sceptical of real political integration".
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