Most Recent Articles from Economist (US), The

• The demise of the free lunch; Cuba's economy. 

  Near-bankruptcy is causing Cuba to jettison the utopian paternalism of Che and Fidel. The future involves hard work for higher, but still-paltry,...

  10/10/09 · More from publication

• Rapa Nui deja vu; Easter Island.(Easter Island's ecological problems) 

  Why doesn't this exotic species leave me in peace? Tourism threatens to trigger another ecological collapse STEPPING off the plane,...

  10/10/09 · More from publication

• A political voice; Mercedes Sosa.(Mercedes Sosa, Argentine singer)(In memoriam)(Brief article) 

  The soundtrack of a past era TO MANY Latin Americans in the later stages of middle age, to hear the voice of Mercedes Sosa, who died on...

  10/10/09 · More from publication

• Rio's expensive new rings; Brazil and the Olympics.(Brazil's Olympic victory)(Rio de Janeiro) 

  Winning the contest to stage the Olympics in 2016 was the easy part PLAYED by heads of state, marketing jocks and heavyweight lobbyists, the...

  10/10/09 · More from publication

• Disunited nations; Afghanistan's fraudulent election. 

  Eide, man of peace and process The election looks worse and worse UNITED NATIONS officials must rue the day they tried to force Peter...

  10/10/09 · More from publication

• Shorts and all; Banyan.(India's Hindu-nationalist opposition) 

  India's voters are not wild about saffron. Can the BJP become a mellower yellow? ON THE eve of India's 2004 election the Bharatiya Janata...

  10/10/09 · More from publication

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