Yearbook 2001 Guyana. After more than three years, the protests raised by the opposition People’s National Congress (PNC) immediately after the People’s Progressive Party’s (PPP) election victory in December 1997 saw its legal sanction....
Yearbook 2001 Ecuador. The increase in gasoline prices and the VAT rate included in the government’s agreement with the IMF was actualized at the beginning of the year by falling oil prices, and the...
Yearbook 2001 Colombia. The political violence in Colombia has continued unabated with almost daily assaults, kidnappings and murders. Particularly in October, a wave of violence with massacres performed by the paramilitary forces was noted;...
Yearbook 2001 Chile. In the congressional elections held on December 16, the government coalition lost some seats in the House of Representatives to the opposition alliance, but retained its majority in both chambers. The...
Yearbook 2001 Brazil. On March 15, the world’s largest oil platform exploded on the Campos field, 200 km northeast of Rio de Janeiro. With the moorings worn off, it drifted offshore, and fears of...
Yearbook 2001 Bolivia. On July 7, it was announced that 74-year-old President Hugo Bánzer was suffering from lung and liver cancer, and a month later he resigned to complete his medical treatment in the...
Yearbook 2001 Argentina. Argentina’s three-year deep economic crisis developed at the end of the year into a very serious political crisis, where in practice the country risked falling into a political vacuum. Already in...
South America is part of America, which is the second largest continent in the world. (The largest is Asia.) As part of the American continent, South America is considered a subcontinent. The other two...