Juan Forero
Thursday, April 30, 2009 - 00:00
A judge is preparing to render a decision in a long-running, multibillion-dollar lawsuit filed by residents of Ecuador's Amazonian rain forest against Texaco for fouling their land.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009 - 00:00
If the judge rules against Chevron, the company could face the largest damages award ever handed down in an environmental case, dwarfing the $3.9 billion awarded against ExxonMobil for the 1989 spill in Alaska
Thursday, April 23, 2009 - 00:00
A top Venezuelan opposition leader is seeking political asylum in Peru, according to his aides, after fleeing his country to avoid what he calls a politically motivated witch hunt directed by the government of President Hugo Chavez
Monday, April 20, 2009 - 00:00
Pareciera que los cambios que comenzaron en Venezuela a finales del siglo XX han comenzado a llegar a la misma Norteamerica", senalo Chavez, al aludir al buen clima que reino durante la cumbre entre los mandatarios de America Latina y el presidente e
Monday, March 23, 2009 - 00:00
Court documents and depositions show that some of the companies had close links to illegal paramilitary groups that massacred villagers in a dirty war against leftist rebels
Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 00:00
Days after President Hugo Chavez won a referendum to eliminate term limits, Congressman Juan Jose Molina stood up in the National Assembly and called the victory "a major fraud" made possible by weak institutions and a populace manipulated by an
Thursday, February 12, 2009 - 00:00
Backers of Venezuela's president ransack city hall in wake of bitter defeat
Monday, February 9, 2009 - 00:00
Jews in these countries are concerned about the growing anti-Semitic tone of the protesters, who frequently equate Israel with Nazi Germany
Friday, January 23, 2009 - 00:00
Unlike those who live in and visit Cartagena' affluent heart, most of the residents of the ramshackle barrios are black. Drug trafficking is rife, children are malnourished and preventable diseases are common
Monday, December 15, 2008 - 00:00
While subsidies and low-interest loans sustain American farming, Argentina's government raises export taxes and calls the country's farmers greedy traitors out to topple the state