The Boston Globe
Tuesday, March 8, 2016 - 06:27
A diplomat from the region observed recently that the real Arab Spring began “when we discovered that President Obama was either unwilling or uninterested in acting in the Middle East." It is not the responsibility of the United States alone to resolve this crisis, but American leadership is needed to bring it to an end. We shouldn’t mistake the absence of headlines for an absence of urgency.
Friday, August 14, 2015 - 06:53
Seven US senators, including the pair from Massachusetts, urged Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday to intercede in the citizenship crisis in the Dominican Republic, expressing concern that thousands of Dominican-born people of Haitian descent still are not recognized as citizens.
Friday, April 11, 2014 - 00:00
When the Latin American elites, including their corporateowned media, speak of freedom and equality, they speak only for themselves.
Friday, January 10, 2014 - 00:00
Townspeople said they oppose the vigilantes because they are forcing young men to join them
Friday, January 3, 2014 - 00:00
While it changed the country in fundamental ways, the treaty never met many of its sweeping promises to close Mexico’s wage gap with the United States, boost job growth, fight poverty, and protect the environment
Friday, February 22, 2013 - 00:00
High-level US diplomats have concluded that Cuba should no longer be designated a state sponsor of terrorism, raising the prospect that Secretary of State John F. Kerry could remove a major obstacle to restoring relations with the Cold War-era foe.
Friday, November 23, 2012 - 00:00
Hundreds of migrants have been stuck for three days along railway tracks in southern Mexico because the freight train they usually ride toward the U.S. border caught fire
Thursday, November 15, 2012 - 00:00
The National Journalists' Association of Brazil says it will launch an investigation into the persecution of journalists during the 1965-1985 military dictatorship.
Thursday, October 11, 2012 - 00:00
Next week marks the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis - arguably the most dangerous moment in modern history. What can Barack Obama and Mitt Romney learn from this crisis 50 years later?