Juan Forero
Monday, May 17, 2010 - 00:00
Nearly half of all Colombians still live in poverty, and many experts wonder if too little has been done to alleviate the misery that helps fuel violence and drugs - drugs that wind up on American streets.
Thursday, April 29, 2010 - 00:00
No matter that Venezuela is one of the world's great oil powers - among the top five providers of crude to the United States. Economists say Venezuela is gripped by an economic crisis that has no easy or fast solution.
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 - 00:00
"Nowadays, judges are afraid that they not only can be dismissed, and lose their jobs, but they can be put in prison after Judge Afiuni's detention."
Wednesday, March 17, 2010 - 00:00
A new political party accused of having links to right-wing death squads gained important political ground in Colombia's congressional elections
Tuesday, March 16, 2010 - 00:00
His party, the U, won 27 of 102 seats in the Senate, seven more than it had after the 2006 elections. That put Santos, 58, scion of a newspaper dynasty, in the best position to win elections in May.
Friday, March 5, 2010 - 00:00
At 14 percent, Chile's poverty rate is the lowest in Latin America. But inequality here has been historically severe, on a par with that in Colombia.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010 - 00:00
Point by point, the report asserts that state has punished and silenced critics, among them anti-government television stations, demonstrators and opposition politicians who advocate a form of government different from Chavez's.
Monday, February 15, 2010 - 00:00
For some Haitians, it is a cruel irony that a business community they consider clannish, corrupt and responsible for the country's backwardness could be spearheading efforts
Thursday, February 11, 2010 - 00:00
In the mournful lexicon of Latin American dictatorship, they were the "disappeared." And on that night in 2004, Alejandro was hearing that his real parents had been victims of the military junta
Thursday, February 11, 2010 - 00:00
About 20 percent of the capital city's buildings were destroyed, but an even greater percentage left standing are so unsafe that they will have to be fixed before they can be occupied or will have to be torn down.