Frances Robles
Tuesday, October 21, 2008 - 00:00
Three Cuban men forced to work 16-hour shifts at 3 ½ cents an hour repairing ships for a Cuban joint venture in Curacao won an $80 million judgment Monday in U.S. federal court in Miami
Thursday, October 9, 2008 - 00:00
Vanoy and Francisco Javier Zuluaga-Lindo -- the former commander of the AUC's Pacific bloc who's better known as ''Gordo Lindo'' -- will be sentenced on drug charges Thursday
Friday, October 3, 2008 - 00:00
Banned from running for mayor of Caracas, Leopoldo Lopez says elections nevertheless are the right way to oppose Hugo Chavez
Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 00:00
Speaking at the U.N.'s 63rd General Assembly, Machado Ventura said Washington's manipulative trade policy stifled growth around the world.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - 00:00
Latin American leaders on Tuesday urged the U.N. to create stronger international economic institutions.
Monday, September 22, 2008 - 00:00
Nearly a quarter century ago, defrocked Catholic priest Miguel D'Escoto was a foreign minister on a hunger strike, a liberation theologian protesting U.S. military aggression in Nicaragua. Back then, D'Escoto's Central American nation was at war. Now, the
Friday, August 15, 2008 - 00:00
Mejia -- better known as ''Martin Sombra'' -- was a member of the FARC central general staff, making him the highest-ranking member of Colombia's guerrilla group ever captured
Thursday, August 7, 2008 - 00:00
A Cuban political prisoner who sewed his mouth shut last month as part of a hunger strike was forced to end his protest when prison authorities undid his stitches, human-rights activists said Wednesday.
Tuesday, August 5, 2008 - 00:00
A jailed top leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia has been indicted by a U.S. federal court in Washington for the kidnapping of three American defense contractors held captive for more than five years, authorities announced Monday.
Thursday, July 31, 2008 - 00:00
Two years after a crippling stomach illness forced him to give up power, a hospitalized Fidel Castro is still in his Adidas track suits, still writing newspaper columns on international affairs and, experts say, still getting in his brother's way.