Quoted
"There's going to be a flood of money coming into the market."
Marcio Mello Silva Baptiste of law firm TozziniFreire on Brazil getting investment grade from S&P, as quoted by Globe & Mail, May 5, 2008
"From now on, Nestor Kirchner is fully in command."
Argentine opposition leader Elisa Carrio on the changes in economy minister, as quoted by AP, April 28, 2008
"We feel these guys are nothing but con men"
Chevron spokesman Don Campbell on the Ecuadorian winners of the Goldman Environmental Prize, as quoted by AP, April 14, 2008
"Speaker Pelosi got her 3:00 a.m. call and said, ‘I’m not answering it.”"
John Walters, US Director National Drug Control Policy, April 10, 2008, on Speaker Nancy Pelosi's efforts to block a vote on the Colombia-US free trade agreement
"As the government failed to control inflation, it's trying to control the indexes"
Marcos Ochoa, a professor of macroeconomics at the University of Belgrano, Buenos Aires, on Argentina's failed inflation fight, as quoted by Bloomberg, April 10, 2008
"Su Casa es Mi Casa"
Craig Kelly, US Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, describing populism in Latin America, at an AACCLA luncheon, Coral Gables, USA, January 24, 2008
"A trip to Madrid? A thousand euros. Another to Barcelona? 1,500 euros. Shutting up Chavez? Priceless. "
Popular Venezuelan joke, referring to recent request by the Spanish king for Venezuelan president Juan Carlos to shut up, as quoted by El Pais, Spain, November 18, 2007