Tim Padgett
Tuesday, September 22, 2009 - 00:00
In recent months, Chavez and his allies from Argentina to Nicaragua have taken steps that critics say make them walk too Cuban for comfort — especially when it comes to independent media
Wednesday, September 9, 2009 - 00:00
When the military hauls away a democratically elected president, it's a military coup, period, regardless of who takes power afterward.
Monday, August 31, 2009 - 00:00
The Obama Administration dropped the latest gift into Chavez's lap this summer when, in a manner most Latin governments call less than transparent, it completed negotiations with Colombia to let the U.S. military use seven military bases there
Monday, August 24, 2009 - 00:00
All 700 of Mexico's federal customs agents, a club notorious for corruption and a less than robust devotion to duty, were booted and replaced with a new force that's two times larger and apparently many times more professional.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009 - 00:00
Kirchner, who resigned as the Peronists' leader after suffering a close but stunning loss in a congressional race, conceded that "in the coming days we'll all have to evaluate the mistakes that have been made."
Monday, June 8, 2009 - 00:00
A preliminary Southcom report to U.S. legislators like Mississippi Senator Thad Cochran, who led a push to get $3 million for Heron testing this year, suggests the drone is ready to take on actual interdiction work
Monday, June 1, 2009 - 00:00
Diplomats tell TIME that major Latin broker countries like Brazil are stepping in now to help hammer out a deal palatable to both Washington and Havana
Wednesday, May 6, 2009 - 00:00
Martinelli may well be the President who cuts the new locks' ribbons. That moment could make Panama the kind of player in the western hemisphere that Singapore is in the eastern — provided Panama finally has a competent, trustworthy administration in pl
Wednesday, April 15, 2009 - 00:00
It's a priest-meets-girl drama that's now a president-admits-baby scandal.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009 - 00:00
Americans long ago came to the rational conclusion that we can trade with communist China and still criticize its rights record. But communist Cuba keeps us in a trance of irrational contradictions