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Inside Latin America
Page last updated at 17:03 GMT, Tuesday, 2 December 2008
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva waves to supporters in Brazilia on 30 October 2006
Brazil's Lula sets out priorities
Brazil's re-elected president says redistribution of wealth is among the key priorities for his second term.
Profile: President Lula
Brazil press looks to future
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Otto Reich and Noam Chomsky Reich and Chomsky on US-Latin America ties as the region turns left

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Chinese and Brazilian flags Alternative model?
Why China's influence in Brazil is setting off alarm bells in the US
Map of Latin America Year of elections
How Latin America's political landscape has been redrawn
Painting of 17th Century Brazilian rebel slave leader Zumbi dos Palmares Race for success
How a bid to boost black Brazilians is dividing the country

ANALYSIS AND BACKGROUND
Map of Latin America How the US 'lost' Latin America
Gavin Esler on the region's leftward trend and its relationship with the US.

Coming to terms with the past
Colombians launch Coke rivals
COUNTRY PROFILES
 
LATIN AMERICA VOTES
Rafael Correa Correa 'wins Ecuador's election'
Leftist Rafael Correa has won Ecuador's run-off presidential election, a top electoral official says.

Tightrope for Mexico's Calderon
Uribe win brings hope for peace
Garcia begins fresh term in Peru

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