Jose De Cordoba
Thursday, August 6, 2009 - 00:00
The U.S., in an apparent softening of its support for ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, won't impose economic sanctions on Honduras and has yet to decide whether Mr. Zelaya's removal from office constitutes a coup
Thursday, July 23, 2009 - 00:00
The outright rejection by Mr. Zelaya's camp of the Arias proposal appeared to put an end to Mr. Arias's mediation efforts
Thursday, July 16, 2009 - 00:00
The report from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office is sure to raise tensions between Venezuela and the U.S. at a delicate moment in the two countries' often testy relations
Tuesday, July 14, 2009 - 00:00
The strongman may be Latin America's most important contribution to political science. The crisis in Honduras has many terrified that power-hungry leaders are making a comeback
Monday, July 6, 2009 - 00:00
Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya tried -- and failed -- to fly to this Central American nation on Sunday to reclaim his post, as clashes at the airport here appeared to lead to the first two deaths in the country's deepening political crisis.
Tuesday, June 16, 2009 - 00:00
Authorities believe the men were being paid by the so-called Sinaloa cartel, led by a gang of drug lords that includes Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman
Tuesday, June 2, 2009 - 00:00
The inauguration of El Salvador's first left-wing president brought to an end nearly a half-century of polarized politics in Latin America's bloodiest Cold War battlefield
Wednesday, May 27, 2009 - 00:00
Michoacan is also the base of a local cartel called La Familia, and has become a battleground for gunmen from the rival Gulf and Sinaloa cartels
Wednesday, May 20, 2009 - 00:00
Revelations that army troops confiscated 14.5 tons of marijuana at a warehouse belonging to the brother of a prominent Mexican senator have heightened feuding in an election season that has been shaken by claims that drug barons have infiltrated the polit
Monday, May 18, 2009 - 00:00
Many of the escaped inmates are believed to be Zeta gunmen, members of the powerful Gulf cartel that is among Mexico's most violent drug gangs