Juan Forero
Monday, May 19, 2008 - 00:00
The school here in Caracas exemplifies the Venezuelan government's approach to education, one that amounts to the latest phase in a decade-long revolution that has seen Chavez steadily extend his influence
Monday, May 12, 2008 - 00:00
Among journalists, here and beyond, the paper's decision to go daily has generated something of a collective, "Say what?"
Monday, April 28, 2008 - 00:00
Authorities on Monday warned Jairo Castillo, 40, a former member of an ultra-right paramilitary group who now lives in Canada, that investigators had determined that two hit men posing as tourists would try to kill him
Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - 00:00
The arrest of the former senator, who built a formidable political movement that helped his cousin win the presidency in 2002, comes during an institutional crisis that has tarnished a country closely allied with the United States
Monday, April 7, 2008 - 00:00
Facing criticism that cocaine trafficking is out of control, Venezuela's government this year has embarked on an aggressive program to track drug-smuggling planes and destroy clandestine airstrips
Sunday, March 30, 2008 - 00:00
Under intense pressure from Colombian military commanders to register combat kills, the army has in recent years also increasingly been killing poor farmers and passing them off as rebels slain in combat
Saturday, March 22, 2008 - 00:00
In a country where most people cannot remember a time of peace, Colombians are for the first time raising the possibility that a guerrilla group once thought invincible could be forced into peace negotiations or even defeated militarily
Tuesday, March 11, 2008 - 00:00
Although the meeting ended on a positive note, the most serious issue raised in the debate -- that Colombian rebels operate with the help of foreign governments -- has not been resolved and is sure to fester
Thursday, March 6, 2008 - 00:00
The resolution creates a commission headed by Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza to analyze the circumstances surrounding Colombia's strike and calls for foreign ministers to meet in Washington on March 17
Monday, March 3, 2008 - 00:00
Calling a Colombian military strike that killed a guerrilla commander "a cowardly assassination," Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sunday closed his country's embassy in Colombia and ordered tanks, planes and thousands of troops