Seven decades after his party seized fields from the predecessors to Exxon Mobil and Royal Dutch Shell, Peña Nieto is preparing for the return of international oil companies.
In Toronto, the mayor of Canada's biggest city, Rob Ford, is surrounded by allegations he was caught on camera taking cocaine. In Ottawa, a controversy over Senate expenses is the first scandal to touch Prime Minister Stephen Harper's inner circle, costing him his chief of staff last month.
After a decade that saw 40 million people rise from poverty, Brazil's middle class finds itself squeezed by faster inflation, rising debt and a weaker currency.
Daniel Icaza, a 26-year-old Costa Rican, recently won the World Championship Belt Buckle Competition. Now his exhibition “Monetary Bondage” is on display at the Costa Rican-North American Cultural Center in Sabana Norte.
