Tim Padgett
Monday, March 1, 2010 - 00:00
The 8.8-magnitude earthquake that hit Chile early on Feb. 27 was 500 times stronger than the 7.0 quake that killed an estimated 200,000 Haitians last month. And yet the number of casualties in Chile appears to be exponentially smaller.
Thursday, February 11, 2010 - 00:00
If Chinchilla's winning platform is any indication, rising drug-related violence worries Costa Ricans the most
Friday, February 5, 2010 - 00:00
The sort of verbally agreed upon transfer of minors that took place between Haitian families and the U.S. missionaries "is too often how child trafficking occurs in Haiti."
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 - 00:00
Because frustrations are percolating amid the disjointed relief campaign, the big question is how long the U.S. and the international community have before that controlled desperation bursts into furious disorder
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 00:00
'We're still running out of water faster then we can deliver it,' Marine Maj. Will Klumpp told me above the deafening roar of copter rotors. 'But at least we feel like we've started to keep up with what the Haitians need now.'
Monday, December 21, 2009 - 00:00
It's hard to watch the judicial farce playing out in Brazil right now and not remember the one that began during the holiday season here in Miami 10 years ago.
Monday, December 14, 2009 - 00:00
It can prove once and for all that it has purged the ghosts of Pinochet, who died in 2006
Tuesday, December 8, 2009 - 00:00
Witness protection in Mexico — which might as well be called witness detection, since it seems the country's violent drug traffickers are having little problem locating, and assassinating, informants
Monday, December 7, 2009 - 00:00
Ostensibly, Valenzuela is President Obama's new point man on Latin America; in reality, that job looks to be under the control of Republicans in Congress and conservatives inside Obama's own diplomatic corps
Wednesday, November 25, 2009 - 00:00
One of the main reasons bad old habits have lingered is that despite the gains of the past decade or so, the same few families and business groups continue to control the region's economy