The hope is that reducing working hours to six hours a day in public and private sector companies will free up energy during peak hours. 

Isabel Allende Bussi, the Socialist Party senator, first woman president of the Senate, and daughter of the murdered president said President Bachelet is “an extremely honest person who has dedicated her life to politics,” and despite her personal issues with her son and the accusations against him, she must lead the way. 

“Simple and elegant as usual,” the sociologist Fernando Henrique Cardoso (who was president of Brazil from 1995 to 2002 for the PSDB and not a huge PT fan) clearly pointed out that “there is no justification” for a campaign of impeachment against President Dilma Rousseff. 

The Colombian political Left is showing its traditional talent for divisiveness. 

“Almost everyone” wants to find that sweet spot on “the moderate Left” heading into the presidential election. 

Cuba’s leaders are committed to updating the nation’s economic and social model to promote economic growth, allowing for the diversification of property ownership and market elements, but maintaining social and political stability along with a degree of central planning. 

The Colombian filmmakers Ciro Guerra, José Luis Rugeles, and César Acevedo will be representing their country in separate categories at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, which will be taking place from the 13th to the 25th of May. 

Mexico City’s National Museum of San Carlos is hosting an exhibit of the works of Raúl Anguiano entitled Raúl Anguiano’s Eternal Feminine. The exhibit marks the centenary of the Mexican painter’s birth.

Paz Errazúriz, one of Chile’s most acclaimed photographers, will be representing her country at this year’s Venice Biennale.

When reading the murky tealeaves of Argentina’s PASO primary elections (primarias abiertas simultáneas y obligatorias) in Salta, Mendoza, Santa Fe and the city of Buenos Aires in April, various political soothsayers attempted to divine their implications for the presidential election later this year.  Prophecies revolved around each prognosticator’s attitude concerning the left-leaning Peronista bloc of outgoing