Simon Romero
Wednesday, May 26, 2010 - 00:00
A Peruvian judge on Tuesday ordered the release on parole of Lori Berenson, the New Yorker who has spent more than 14 years in prison on a conviction of collaborating with a Marxist rebel group in a foiled terrorist plot to take the Peruvian Congress host
Friday, April 23, 2010 - 00:00
The drought that afflicted Venezuela this year is intensifying claims that the Pemon have unleashed a surge in fires that rains would normally extinguish.
Monday, April 19, 2010 - 00:00
China's ties with Venezuela have grown increasingly warm in recent years, marked by rising Venezuelan oil exports to China, the Chinese launching of a satellite for Venezuela and the sale of Chinese military aircraft.
Monday, April 12, 2010 - 00:00
Government-financed brigades of graffiti artists and muralists are blanketing this city's walls with politicized images.
Monday, April 5, 2010 - 00:00
Since Judge Afiuni's imprisonment, a dizzying sequence of other high-profile arrests has taken place, pointing to Mr. Chavez's recent use of his security and intelligence apparatus to quash challenges to his grip on the country's political institutions.
Monday, April 5, 2010 - 00:00
Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin of Russia visited Venezuela on Friday to sign a series of military and oil agreements with President Hugo Chavez.
Wednesday, March 31, 2010 - 00:00
Ms. Torres's sanctuary houses hundreds of animals rescued largely from drug traffickers and paramilitary warlords.
Monday, March 29, 2010 - 00:00
People in tent camps reeking of sewage are living in areas where prosperous Haitians, foreign aid workers and diplomats come to spend their money and unwind.
Friday, March 26, 2010 - 00:00
Attorney General Luisa Ortega said that Mr. Zuloaga had been arrested in connection with comments he made this month at an Inter American Press Association meeting in Aruba that were considered false and "offensive" to Mr. Chavez.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010 - 00:00
The rise of Chigüire Bipolar, which has already drawn the wrath of state-controlled media here, and a handful of other popular Venezuelan sites focused on politics is taking place within a journalistic atmosphere here that international press groups