Juan Forero
Saturday, October 11, 2008 - 00:00
Lopez was making a strong bid for the mayoralty of greater Caracas, until his disqualification
Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 00:00
Colombia's inspector general's office is investigating a secret meeting at the presidential palace in April between top aides to President Álvaro Uribe and emissaries of a feared paramilitary warlord.
Friday, September 19, 2008 - 00:00
Human Rights Watch said that after nearly 10 years in office, Chavez's record was not that of a defender of democracy, as he characterizes himself, but that of a would-be autocra
Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 00:00
Videotaped testimony by Luis Adrian Palacio, made during two days of closed-door hearings in August and viewed by The Washington Post, has prompted the attorney general's office in Bogota to open a preliminary criminal investigation of the allegations aga
Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 00:00
Bolivian President Evo Morales and opposition leaders agreed Tuesday to formal negotiations to defuse a crisis that has threatened to split the country in half
Monday, September 15, 2008 - 00:00
The current rift comes amid an ongoing dispute between the two countries over coca, which Morales says Washington unfairly demonizes
Wednesday, August 27, 2008 - 00:00
Attorney General Mario Iguaran, whose office oversees the exhumations, said in an interview that authorities think more than 10,000 bodies might still be scattered across the country
Tuesday, August 19, 2008 - 00:00
The extraditions have sparked a heated debate in this country, with pundits and politicians accusing the Bush administration of sidestepping Colombian interests
Monday, August 11, 2008 - 00:00
Morales' hold on half the country — the so-called half-moon states that form the opposition — will be tenuous at best after the referendum
Friday, August 8, 2008 - 00:00
In Venezuela, where President Hugo Chavez divides his countrymen into two groups – the exploited poor and the malevolent oligarchs – Mr. Vollmer would seem to fall into the latter category. But this US-educated businessman has founded two highly succe