Simon Romero
Thursday, November 8, 2007 - 00:00
Masked gunmen shot into a group of students on Wednesday at this country’s most prestigious university.
Tuesday, November 6, 2007 - 00:00
The former commander, General Raul Isaias Baduel, who was also defense minister until his retirement last July, had been one of Chavez's closest allies after helping to reinstall him in office during a brief coup in 2002
Tuesday, November 6, 2007 - 00:00
At a news conference here, he called the president’s proposals a “nondemocratic imposition that would put us into tragic retreat.”
Tuesday, October 30, 2007 - 00:00
Thanks to a decades-old subsidy that has proven devilishly complex to undo, gasoline in Venezuela costs about 7 cents a gallon
Tuesday, September 25, 2007 - 00:00
A country that may have preferred to forget about the methods used by Mr. Fujimori to vanquish leftist insurgents and economic instability is now being forced to reckon with them
Sunday, September 23, 2007 - 00:00
Peruvian police detained a former president, Alberto K. Fujimori, in Santiago, Chile, Saturday and flew him here, opening the way for him to be tried on human rights and corruption charges
Friday, September 21, 2007 - 00:00
This country’s Supreme Court is expected to announce on Friday its response to Peru’s request to extradite its former president, Alberto Fujimori, who faces charges of corruption and human rights abuses
Tuesday, September 18, 2007 - 00:00
For all the worries that Mr. Morales’s radicalism would create economic and political turmoil in Bolivia, the reality of his tenure is that the country is relatively stable
Friday, September 14, 2007 - 00:00
Sucre’s seemingly quixotic effort to regain what it lost has evolved into the most pressing crisis facing Evo Morales
Sunday, September 9, 2007 - 00:00
To Cuba: a fitting tribute to a nation that nurtured the insurgency from its origins here in the 1960s and has since become something of a refuge for the aging rebels