2002
DECEMBER
December 17, 2002
Troubled Nation
Ray Suarez discusses the escalating crisis in Venezuela with Arturo Valenzuela, a former State Department official, Miguel Diaz, director of the South American project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and Amy Jaffee, the senior energy advisor at the James A. Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice University.

OCTOBER
October 28, 2002
Leftist Landslide
After a report from Spencer Michels on the landslide victory of Brazilian president-elect Lula da Silva, Margaret Warner speaks with Paulo Sotero, Washington correspondent for the Brazilian newspaper O Estado de Sao Paulo, Kristin Forbes, a professor at the Sloan school at MIT, and Tony Avirgan, international policy coordinator at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington.

AUGUST
August 8, 2002
Bailing Out Brazil
Ray Suarez reports on the International Monetary Fund's $30 billion package to bail out Brazil's failing economy. Joining him for analysis are Ruben Barbosa, Brazil's ambassador to the United States, and Peter Hakim, president of Inter-American Dialogue, a Washington-based research group focusing on Latin America.

August 7, 2002
New Leader
Ray Suarez profiles Alvaro Uribe, Colombia's newly sworn-in president, who won the election with promises to crack down on Marxist guerrillas and pledges to make a greater effort in the war on drugs.

August 5, 2002
Widening Worries
Kwame Holman looks at the economic crisis in Uruguay and its neighboring countries Argentina and Brazil. Then, Margaret Warner speaks with Jerry O'Driscoll, director of the Center for International Trade and Economics at the Heritage Foundation, Nancy Birdsall, president of the Center for Global Development, and Walter Molano, chief Latin economist at BCP Securities.

JUNE
June 18, 2002
Cartoon and Crisis
Elizabeth Farnsworth presents the third in a series of reports from Venezuela and profiles an artist living and drawing in a time of political crisis.

MAY
May 31, 2002
Divided Nation
The second in a series of reports on Venezuela from Elizabeth Farnsworth.

May 23, 2002
Divided Nation
Elizabeth Farnsworth reports on the aftermath of the coup in the South American nation of Venezuela.

May 15, 2002
Carter and Castro
Gwen Ifill reports on former President Jimmy Carter's visit to Cuba. For perspectives on Carter's trip, Ifill talks to Jorge Mas Santos, chairman of the Cuban American National Foundation, Alfredo Duran, former president of the Cuban Committee for Democracy, Rep. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), and Rep. Robert Menendez (D-NJ).

APRIL
April 15, 2002
Back in Power
Kwame Holman reports on the swift return of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez. Then for further analysis, Elizabeth Farnsworth talks to Andres Oppenheimer, a syndicated foreign affairs columnist for The Miami Herald.

April 12, 2002
Coup in Caracas
Ray Suarez reports on the ousting of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez. For further analysis, Suarez is joined by Michael Shifter, senior fellow at the Inter-American Dialogue and professor of Latin American studies at Georgetown University, and Fernando Coronil, a Venezuelan-born U.S. citizen and history professor at the University of Michigan.

MARCH
March 25, 2002
Touring the Neighborhood
Ray Suarez reports on President Bush's trip to Central and South America.

March 22, 2002
Foreign Aid
Margaret Warner discusses the World Poverty Summit in Mexico with James Wolfensohn, president of The World Bank, and Trevor Manuel, South Africa's finance minister.

FEBRUARY
February 25, 2002
Confrontation in Colombia
Ray Suarez reports on the kidnapping of a presidential candidate by a group of Colombian leftist rebels.

JANUARY
January 7, 2002
Helping Hand for Argentina
Ray Suarez examines how the United States and international organizations should react to the crisis in Argentina with Nancy Birdsall, president of The Center for Global Development and former vice president of The Inter-American Development Bank, and Adam Lerrick, professor of economics and director of The Galliot Center for Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University.

January 4, 2002
The Shape of the World: Part 2
Margaret Warner presents the second in a series of conversations about the United States' role in global affairs. She talks to Andres Oppenheimer, syndicated foreign affairs columnist for The Miami Herald.

January 2, 2002
Argentina Upheaval
Ray Suarez covers the political and economic turmoil in Argentina. For further perspectives, he talks with Peter Hakim, president of The Inter-American Dialogue, and Miguel Diaz, director of the South America Project at The Center for Strategic and International Studies.

January 1, 2002
The President of Bolivia
Ray Suarez talks with the new president of Bolivia, Jorge Fernando Quiroga Ramírez, about the new generation of leadership there.