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Showing posts with label Latin American unity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Latin American unity. Show all posts

Sunday, November 13, 2011

Telefonica Has Loss on Spain Slide, Latin America Slowdown

Telefonica SA, Europe’s largest phone company by market value, reported its first quarterly loss in nine years on costs to eliminate jobs and lower revenue from Spain as customers switched to cheaper rivals’ offers.

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Latin America’s candidate to head IMF speaks out

What irony! Despite all their grandiose rhetoric about Latin American unity, Brazil, Argentina and Chile have not yet come out in support of Agustín Carstens, the Latin American candidate to head the International Monetary Fund.

Earlier this week, I asked Carstens, a Mexican, whether he is disappointed that the three South American countries have failed so far to support his candidacy to succeed Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former IMF chief who resigned after being charged with sexually assaulting a New York hotel maid.