Sasha Issenberg
Americas
South America's revamped union, efforts to get Ronald Reagan recognised, and the new goldrush in Peru.
Let’s look at plan B
Struggling nations and cities need to hitch up their skirts, quicken their step and just get on with it. Our editor-in-chief follows up the debates stirred up in this issue.
The city limits
New York City’s enviable culture and wealth have failed to spread to its northern hinterlands. For ailing cities like Buffalo, it’s do or die time.
The future starts here
Ten experts open their almanacs to explore the challenges of 2011 in the worlds of politics, banking, terrorism and defence.
Let’s talk about this
How do you persuade a Somali pirate to release his hostages or rebel kidnappers to let their abductees go? We meet the negotiators out to fix the world in 2011.
Daddy’s girl
At 19, Keiko Fujimori became Peru’s first lady, appointed by her president father. Now she is standing for the top job herself while he is in jail. Can she win over voters?
Give and take
Once an aid recipient, South Korea has become a manufacturing powerhouse and donor. As the G20 summit opens in Seoul, is it giving enough and for the right reasons?
Americas
Monocle speaks to Haitian presidential candidate Leslie Voltaire and gets news from the Andes. Plus Sasha Issenberg's View from Washington.
Americas
Costa Rica's first female president gets the once over in our Style Leader. Plus our Washington correspondent reports on how big business and political campaigns in the US don't always make good bedfellows.
Expo 37: Kings of the Hill
Industrial behemoths and global media brands know the value of having a person in Washington. Though lacking cold war intrigue, it remains a city where the fate of the world can be decided.
