Rory Carroll
Wednesday, October 3, 2012 - 00:00
The revolution hangs by a thread. There appears to be no plan B, no successor. Chavez surrounded himself mostly with mediocrities, valuing loyalty over competence or, it turned out, honesty.
Tuesday, July 3, 2012 - 00:00
Enrique Pena Nieto is likely to shift focus from cross-border drug trafficking to crimes affecting ordinary Mexicans.
Monday, February 13, 2012 - 00:00
Polls suggest Venezuela is divided into a third who adore Chavez, a third who loathe him and a floating third.
Wednesday, June 29, 2011 - 00:00
Few in Peten expect the relative calm to last. Mexico's Gulf and Sinaloa cartels still have their proxies in the area and the Zetas are busy recruiting.
Monday, June 6, 2011 - 00:00
Humala won overwhelming support from impoverished indigenous voters in Andean highlands who feel left out by Peru's mining-driven economic boom.
Friday, June 3, 2011 - 00:00
No plans to officially mark president's 80th birthday amid growing concern over Cuba's ageing leadership.
Thursday, May 12, 2011 - 00:00
A sense of alarm in Quito deepened when a senior US counter-narcotics official said Ecuador was becoming a "United Nations" of organised crime.
Wednesday, April 20, 2011 - 00:00
Welcome to the world of Cuba's first feature-length horror film in half a century, a gore-filled black comedy which satirises social mores in the twilight of Castro rule.
Tuesday, April 19, 2011 - 00:00
Eugenio Vides Casanova, a former Salvadoran defence minister accused of human rights abuses, retired to Florida in 1989.
Friday, March 11, 2011 - 00:00
Last year 14,000 people were murdered in Venezuela, three times more than Iraq. Why? Gang warfare.