Continue reading »The leader of the Peruvian Institute of Sport, Arturo Woodman, proposed that Peru, Colombia and Ecuador could make a single candidate as headquarters of the 2026 World Cup. The proposal was welcome by Colombian president Álvaro Uribe.
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The United Nations Office on Drugs (UNODC) offers a positive report on the Colombian case and its reductions of coca leaf. Acción Andina (AA) is, however, not too optimistic and concludes that there is an effort to show that Colombia has won the struggle against drugs and drug trafficking. What is clear for an international community opinion is that this War on Drugs is divided and it has several points to recognize and rethink.
Peru was placed in the ‘Premium Category’ by the International Monetary Fund and is any more a country that requires programs of assistance, reported AméricaEconomía this weekend. The Minister of Finances of the Andean country, Mercedes Aráoz, declared to the media that the IFM underlined the excellent macroeconomic and monetary management.
Photo Banco Continental in Lima by Chalisimo5
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The EU-Latin American nations summit is at its highest point with the announcement of the FTA ratification between Europe and Colombia and Peru. The Euro-chambers of Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Uruguay asked the ratification of the commercial agreement before the European Parliament.
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While Colombia is still the first world producer of cocaine, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) reported this month that the production of the white powder in Colombia has decreased.
The best schools of economy in Latin America are in Argentina, according with the research of AmericaEconomía.
The 2009 ranking of the best schools of economy in the region measured three dimensions: actions in the support of social labor, the size in the number of graduates and the professional success reached by its more outstanding past pupils.

IAE-Universidad Austral of Buenos Aires, the best high ranking school of economy in Latin America, according with AméricaEconomía Magazine. Photo official site of the University.

The Costa Rican National Theater. Photo Andrés Alvarez.
According with a recent study of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Costa Rica was perceived as the best place to live in Latin American and the Caribbeans. It has the best standard of life, economical situation, and the best national system of health and education, according with its own people. The results, published also by AmericaEconomía magazine, was a research made among persons from 23 Latin American nations.
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Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa. Photo by Manuel González Olaechea y Franco.
The presence of prestigious Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa has risen concerns in the Venezuela of president Hugo Chávez, famous for his socialist project for the South American nation. Vargas Llosa, one of the most important authors of the Hispanic literature, came to Caracas for the International Congress on Freedom and Democracy organized by the Center of Promulgation of the Economic Knowledge for Freedom (Cedic). The former president of Bolivia, Jorge Quiroga, is also in the Congress.
Tensions rose already when the Peruvian author arrived to the Maiquetía International Airport and was retained for 90 minutes by the Venezuelan authorities.
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The US-Peru free trade agreement quaked this week when some democrats at the US Congress and unionist organizations, asked president Bush to suspend the agreement and let it to the Obama administration to evaluate the conditions.
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Even if countries like Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Peru have presented big programs to cushion the world recession, it will not be enough to the strong 2009 effects on the regional economies, suggested Standard & Poor’s (S&P).
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