Simon Romero
Friday, May 6, 2011 - 00:00
Revelations of a complex kickback scheme involving contracts for Bogota construction projects have ensnared Ivan Moreno, a senator arrested on graft charges. He is the brother of Samuel Moreno, the city's suspended mayor.
Thursday, May 5, 2011 - 00:00
Rather than playing down his past, Mr. Bouterse has defiantly celebrated it since his election last July by Parliament.
Friday, March 4, 2011 - 00:00
Officers pored over intelligence reports describing the movements of two warlords with private armies. Then the helicopters lifted off at dawn, carrying an elite squad armed with assault rifles to the newest front in this country's long war: gold mines.
Friday, March 4, 2011 - 00:00
Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi's government has accepted a proposal by President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela to negotiate a solution to the turmoil in Libya, a top aide to Mr. Chavez said on Thursday.
Tuesday, March 1, 2011 - 00:00
Few of the building's terraces have guardrails. Even walls and windows are absent on many floors. Yet dozens of DirecTV satellite dishes dot the balconies.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011 - 00:00
Armed with a $9 billion ruling against Chevron in Ecuador but little chance of collecting it there, representatives for Ecuadorean villagers said Tuesday that they were looking at waging legal battles against the company in more than a dozen countries.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011 - 00:00
A judge in a tiny courtroom in the Ecuadorean Amazon ruled Monday that the oil giant Chevron was responsible for polluting remote tracts of Ecuadorean jungle and ordered the company to pay more than $9 billion in damages, one of the largest environmental
Monday, January 31, 2011 - 00:00
In Bolivia, the ferocity of the protests and Mr. Morales's rapid capitulation opened an uncertain chapter for the president, who is at the start of his sixth year in office.
Wednesday, December 15, 2010 - 00:00
The request, submitted less than a month before a new legislature convenes with a bolstered faction of opposition lawmakers, opens a new phase of tension between the president and his critics.
Thursday, December 2, 2010 - 00:00
On Wednesday, Venezuela's president, Hugo Chavez, opened the doors of the neoclassical building to a new set of residents: flood victims.