Efforts by President Dilma Rousseff and her predecessors to promote renewables have been so successful that regulators are now concerned the power grid has become too dependent on the weather.
The Mexican president is expected to face considerable political wrangling from the powerful oil workers union, left-leaning lawmakers and interests groups, which are content with their slice of the status quo.
The Heritage Foundation said the millions of immigrants who would be legalized through "amnesty" would generate massive fiscal deficits over the long term.
Retired Associated Press reporter Joseph Frazier, who covered the Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua and the civil war in El Salvador, has a new memoir based on his reporting during the war years between 1979-1986. Dery Dyer reviews this great new book and shares personal insight into those difficult years.
