Tim Padgett
Monday, November 24, 2008 - 00:00
Few rituals are more futile than the "housecleaning" of Mexico's police forces
Thursday, October 23, 2008 - 00:00
The oil discovery has renewed debate over whether a crude-thirsty U.S. should loosen its 46-year-old trade embargo against Cuba and let yanqui firms join the drilling, which is taking place fewer than 100 miles off U.S. shores.
Friday, October 10, 2008 - 00:00
Such is today's surreal situation that Washington is getting lectured on capitalism by Lula, the head of Brazil's leftist Workers' Party
Wednesday, September 3, 2008 - 00:00
It wasn't until Antonini's luggage was opened in 2007 — and until Colombian authorities claimed last spring that seized guerrilla laptops revealed Chavez payments of as much as $300 million to the FARC — that alleged evidence of Caracas' covert dealin
Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - 00:00
"Right now, being a radical is not where the votes are" in a country that, despite its vast oil wealth, is wrestling with high inflation and even higher rates of violent crime
Monday, May 26, 2008 - 00:00
Marulanda's death by heart attack, confirmed over the weekend by the rebels he commanded for 44 years, makes it official: the Che Guevara era, like that of the hemisphere's military dictatorships, is over
Saturday, May 17, 2008 - 00:00
There are also numerous reasons the Administration could resist the temptation to turn up the heat on its most vocal challenger in Latin America
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - 00:00
In a speech to the Cuban Communist Party's Central Committee, the 76-year-old president announced that a party congress will be held in the second half of 2009 — the first such Cuban powerfest since 1997
Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 00:00
In their jungle encampments, America's hostages in Colombia are not just out of sight; to all but their families and supporters, they seem to be out of mind too
Thursday, March 6, 2008 - 00:00
The OAS, a sort of hemispheric United Nations, may yet surprise the doubters