Agence France Presse
Tuesday, December 9, 2008 - 00:00
Drug gang-related killings have risen 117 percent in Mexico so far in 2008, compared with the same period last year
Tuesday, December 2, 2008 - 00:00
Ecuador's President Rafael Correa vowed here to do everything possible to help former FARC hostage Ingrid Betancourt secure the release of hundreds of captives still held by the guerrilla group
Monday, December 1, 2008 - 00:00
Betancourt's visit to Colombia five months after her rescue will be brief since she has often stated she fears for her life
Monday, December 1, 2008 - 00:00
"We cannot say to those countries, 'if you're friends with Hugo Chavez, you are our enemy.' That's a stupid policy
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 00:00
The results shake up the political landscape of the OPEC nation, reducing the broad dominance of the fiercely anti-liberal Chavez and his party
Friday, October 17, 2008 - 00:00
"The government of President Uribe, in our opinion, has become an obstacle for the advancement of justice," HRW's Americas director Jose Miguel Vivanco told reporters
Friday, October 17, 2008 - 00:00
"Bolivia has failed to cooperate with the United States on important efforts to fight drug trafficking. So, sadly, I have proposed to suspend Bolivia's trade preferences until it fulfills its obligations," he said
Thursday, October 9, 2008 - 00:00
Justice officials from the Americas and the Caribbean agreed to reinforce border security, at a meeting highlighting the spread of Mexican drug cartels
Monday, October 6, 2008 - 00:00
Bolivian President Evo Morales announced general elections would be moved up a year-and-a-half to June 2009, a change decried by the opposition
Monday, October 6, 2008 - 00:00
Mexican police found eight bodies, two of them decapitated, in the northwestern border city of Tijuana, and 19 others after separate attacks further east in the border state of Chihuahua