Recently added articles from The Economist (US):
Correa and the golden ponchos; Ecuador's president.(Problems for Ecuador's president)(Rafael Correa)
Oct 03, 2009; ... Cutting Correa down to size, in Quichua A popular leader faces mounting opposition on both left and right WHEN he is addressing rural audiences in the Andean highlands, Rafael Correa, Ecuador's president, likes to sprinkle his speeches with phrases in Quichua, the ...
Cracks within and without; Honduras's power struggle.(Manuel Zelaya and Roberto Micheletti)
Oct 03, 2009; ... Micheletti overplays his hand WHEN Manuel Zelaya sneaked back into Honduras on September 21st and holed up in Brazil's embassy he seemed to hope for a tide of popular protest that would restore him to the presidency from which he was ousted by a coup three months ago. Instead he ...
How many Mexicans does it take to drill an oil well? Mexico's troubled oil industry.
Oct 03, 2009; ... More than 140,000, and even then they're not very good at it. For this, now acute, problem, blame the politicians IT IS bad enough that Mexico's economy is in deep recession, triggered by its close links to the ailing United States. To make matters worse, the country's oil ...
Laptops for all; Education in Uruguay.
Oct 03, 2009; ... Shiny new toys, certainly. An educational revolution? Perhaps A pioneering project's chequered start FOR the past year the pupils of Escuela 95, in a poor neighbourhood of Montevideo, have had a new learning tool. Each has been issued with a laptop computer. This has ...
Party like it's '49; China's National Day.(China's National Day extravaganza)
Oct 03, 2009; ... Hu: a big-picture kind of president An imposing display of hardware IT WAS hardly a celebration, with no one allowed to line the streets or even stand on balconies to watch the troops and tanks parade through central Beijing. Amid tight security, China marked its ...
A view framed by barbed wire; Sri Lanka's internally displaced.(Sri Lanka's internally displaced Tamils)
Oct 03, 2009; ... Not much to look at The fate of a quarter of a million interned Tamils is poisoning Sri Lanka's hopes of ethnic reconciliation KANCHANA asks to go by a false name, but seems self-assured for a teenager. And no wonder. Her experience of Sri Lanka's civil war, which ...
The law in whose hands? Pakistan's Swat valley.
Oct 03, 2009; ... The army's triumph over the Taliban in the valley risks turning sour THE mayor of Swat, a pretty valley in north-west Pakistan that the army has just wrested back from the Taliban, has now returned to work. But instead of overseeing the rebuilding of the schools and roads, he ...
A season of calamity; Natural disasters.(Earthquake, tsunami, flood)
Oct 03, 2009; ... Destroyed Padang Earthquake, tsunami and flood THE powerful earthquake that struck off the west coast of Sumatra on September 30th, killing many hundreds of people and trapping thousands more under rubble, was not the giant seismologists had feared. But its impact ...
Re-engagement rings; America and Myanmar.
Oct 03, 2009; ... The new policy can hardly work worse than the old one A NUMBER of adjectives might be applied to America's policy towards Myanmar over the past two decades, in which it has shunned the vicious junta's leaders and imposed trade, investment and financial sanctions. Supporters ...
The Keynes comeback; John Maynard Keynes.(A re-evaluation of John Maynard Keynes)(Keynes: The Twentieth Century's Most Influential Economist
Oct 03, 2009; ... A trio of new books celebrate the man and declare victory for his ideas WHO has had the biggest influence on global economic policy over the past year? Plausible cases can be made for a handful of global bigwigs. But a moment's reflection suggests the answer lies elsewhere, ...
Exporting warfare; Military history.(Lessons from America's civil war)(The American Civil War: A Military History)(Book review)
Oct 03, 2009; ... An early intimation of even greater horrors to come A BRITISH military historian, even one as distinguished as Sir John Keegan, is hard put to say something new about America's civil war. Fine American scholars, such as Bruce Catton, Shelby Foote and James McPherson, have ...
Old Nick rides again; A biography of Alan Clark.(What can Alan Clark's biography say that is not in his diaries?)(Alan Clark: The Biography)(Book review)
Oct 03, 2009; ... Think of me what you will FEW political diaries can hold a candle to those of Alan Clark, at least for entertainment value. Chips Channon, who, like Clark, was once a Conservative member of Britain's Parliament, wrote in a way that comes closest in its wit, honesty, keen eye, ...
The importance of being Rogier; Rogier van der Weyden.(The lasting influence of Rogier van der Weyden)(Rogier van der Weyden: Master of Passions)
Oct 03, 2009; ... All passion spent An exhibition in Belgium points to the painter's extraordinary influence THE story of oil painting as we know it begins in the early 15th century in the Netherlands. Rogier van der Weyden (1400-64) was an outstanding master of the new technique. As ...
In the Camorra's coils; New thriller.(A new thriller about Naples and the Camorra)(The Collaborator)(Book review)
Oct 03, 2009; ... SCRATCH a foreign correspondent and you may find a would-be thriller writer underneath. Many dream of making the transition, but few have done so as successfully as Gerald Seymour, a former British television news correspondent. Since the publication of his first thriller in 1975, "Harry's ...
Theirs not to reason why; The British army in Afghanistan.(The bravery of British soldiers in Afghanistan)
Oct 03, 2009; ... THE arrival of British forces in Helmand in 2006 "stirred up a hornet's nest in a province that many had considered quiet until then." Such is the admission of the man who commanded 3 Para, the lead element of the first British contingent in Afghanistan. Yet, writes Stuart Tootal, it had ...
It's back; Anti-social behaviour.(anti-social behaviour order)
Oct 03, 2009; ... Another Blairite theme is resurrected TAUNTS, stones, eggs: none of the things hurled at Fiona Pilkington's home were particularly serious taken on their own, or so the local police thought. But after seven years of hounding by local youths, the siege became unbearable. This ...
See you in court; BAE Systems.(BAE and the Serious Fraud Office)
Oct 03, 2009; ... A defence contractor and a fraud investigator brazen it out PROSECUTION of BAE Systems, Europe's biggest defence contractor, for alleged bribery came a step nearer on October 1st when the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) said it was referring the case to the attorney-general for ...
The feel-bad factor; The return of thrift.
Oct 03, 2009; ... As households squirrel more away, any recovery will be cheerless BESET by worries about rising unemployment and the loss of housing and financial wealth, Britain's redoubtable consumers have lost their nerve, and it is hardly surprising. After a long period in which the thrill ...
Tragedy and farce; The travails of ITV.(ITV PLC)(Column)
Oct 03, 2009; ... No X-factor at the top Torrid times at Britain's biggest commercial-television company THE saga started in April, when ITV's executive chairman, Michael Grade, said he would drop the executive bit of his job by the end of the year. Britain's biggest commercial ...
Backwards, not forwards; The Labour Party conference.(Conference notes)
Oct 03, 2009; ... Labour is struggling even to pretend that its best days lie before it THE last time Gordon Brown's Labour Party held a seaside conference with a general election in the offing, a prelapsarian triumphalism reigned. At Bournemouth in 2007 the prime minister, new at the time, ...
