Mark Weisbrot

The OAS's attempt to rehabilitate a fatally flawed process would be laughable if it were not a tragic injustice for Haitians

The agreement by the European Union and the International Monetary Fund to provide up to $960 billion of support to the Continent's weaker economies, as well as to financial markets, has appeared to calm investors worldwide, for the moment.

Argentina's president came under fire for sacking the head of the central bank – but why should such institutions be 'independent'?

Barack Obama needs to face up to the fact that existing US policies have caused havoc throughout South America

President Bush says we are not in a recession. One commonly-used definition of a recession is two consecutive quarters of declining output (GDP). The first quarter of 2008 came in at 0.6 percent, although it would have been negative if not for inventory accumulation.