Tim Padgett
Wednesday, April 8, 2009 - 00:00
Judge Cesar San Martin concluded there was "no question" that Fujimori had sanctioned the killings during massacres in 1991 and '92 as well as the '92 kidnappings of journalist Gustavo Goritti and businessman Samuel Dyer
Friday, March 27, 2009 - 00:00
He talked with TIME's Tim Padgett this week about his police reform, drug-cartel death threats against him and comparisons of Juarez to Baghdad.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009 - 00:00
As Washington hyperventilates over the threat of Mexico's narco-carnage spilling into the U.S., it can't ignore America's role in its neighbor's trafficking tragedy.
Monday, February 16, 2009 - 00:00
When President Hugo Chavez first asked Venezuelans to eliminate presidential term limits in December 2007, they told him no. But on Sunday, as if resigned to the idea that he would keep on asking until he got the answer he wanted, voters said yes
Monday, February 9, 2009 - 00:00
President Rafael Correa rather petulantly expelled a U.S. diplomat on Saturday. He did so because the diplomat rather high-handedly sent Correa's national police commander a letter saying the U.S. was pulling $340,000 in aid to Ecuador's anti-drug cops
Monday, February 2, 2009 - 00:00
With the students neutralized, and with the regular opposition parties still unable to challenge Chavez on a national level, the leftist revolutionary is looking more likely to win this new bid for indefinite re-election
Friday, January 9, 2009 - 00:00
If Chavez can keep donating fuel even as his oil revenues tumble, why can't any U.S. oil companies step up to do the same?
Tuesday, December 30, 2008 - 00:00
It's good that the Cuban Revolution's 50th anniversary falls on Jan. 1. That's the day for New Year's resolutions, and it's time for Washington and Havana to make some big ones.
Tuesday, December 2, 2008 - 00:00
The incoming Obama Administration — and who knows how many U.S. administrations after Obama's — may need to get prepared for lifetime re-election for Chavez, because this time he could very well get it
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 00:00
It seems doubtful that Chavez, whose second and final six-year term ends in 2012, emerged with sufficient palanca, or leverage, to again seek a constitutional amendment that would allow him to be re-elected indefinitely