Tim Padgett
Thursday, January 26, 2012 - 00:00
Though Capriles is heavily favored to win the opposition's Feb. 12 primary vote, recent polls still show him well behind Chavez, who despite his recent battle with cancer remains Venezuela's strongest political figure.
Friday, January 20, 2012 - 00:00
The reforms are geared especially at helping visitors from Brazil and China get to the U.S. faster.
Thursday, December 15, 2011 - 00:00
"I think the greatest change the movement produced was that we made the [drug war's] victims' names and faces visible — we reclaimed the victims, put the photos of them smiling, before all this horror hit us, into the national consciousness"
Friday, December 9, 2011 - 00:00
The hard part has yet to come for Rousseff. But if few inside and outside Brazil seem to be panicking after Tuesday's news, it's most likely because they’re confident, at least for now, that Dilma is doing things right
Monday, December 5, 2011 - 00:00
Latin leaders endorse his push for Bolivarian unity - and the historically popular challenge to U.S. imperialismo that it represents, especially as U.S. engagement with and influence over the hemisphere declines even further
Friday, November 11, 2011 - 00:00
But that was a generation ago, unfortunately, and today Venezuela is awash in some of the worst violent crime the oil-rich South American country has ever experienced - the latest example being the armed abduction yesterday, Nov. 9, of Venezuelan MLB star
Monday, October 31, 2011 - 00:00
So where in the Western world can you find a modicum of national confidence these days? South American way, amigo
Friday, October 21, 2011 - 00:00
As important as money is morale - a sense, which Mexico has never instilled in its cops since Cortes conquered the Aztecs, that the institution of police work is essential, valued and dignified
Monday, October 3, 2011 - 00:00
The church is discovering that being the first - and only - alternative institution to the Cuban revolution is both a blessing and a curse
Wednesday, September 28, 2011 - 00:00
Haiti could indeed use improved civil defense forces like disaster response teams or a coast guard. But it faces few if any foreign military threats, so it doesn't need an army