The Boston Globe
Thursday, July 10, 2008 - 00:00
The freeing of these hostages, along with the death last March of Manuel Marulanda, the long-time leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, provides a defining strategic opportunity for the US Congress
Wednesday, July 9, 2008 - 00:00
Brazilian police arrested a former Sao Paulo mayor and two prominent financiers Tuesday in a case that grew out of an influence-peddling scandal involving senior government officials.
Wednesday, July 9, 2008 - 00:00
Three short messages recorded by Betancourt have been broadcast in the past few days from loudspeakers attached to helicopters flying over the jungles where the former hostage was held before she and 14 others were rescued in a bloodless deception.
Tuesday, July 8, 2008 - 00:00
Thomas "Randy" Howes from Cape Cod and the two other American military contractors who were freed last week from Colombian rebels spoke out for the first time
Tuesday, July 8, 2008 - 00:00
A magnitude 6.2 earthquake shook southern Peru early on Tuesday, killing at least one person in the Andean country's second-largest city, Arequipa, and damaging scores of homes.
Tuesday, July 8, 2008 - 00:00
Forensics experts began digging for secret graves on an army base in southwestern Mexico this week to find proof of government atrocities during the country's 1970s 'dirty war.'
Tuesday, July 8, 2008 - 00:00
At least 46 people died in Bolivia on Tuesday when a truck loaded with goods and peasants lurched off a mountainous highway and fell nearly 1,000 feet
Tuesday, July 8, 2008 - 00:00
Hundreds of Chilean students and teachers fought riot police armed with tear gas and water cannons in the capital on Tuesday, the latest protest against an unpopular education reform bill.
Sunday, July 6, 2008 - 00:00
MEXICO CITY—A tropical depression scattered rains across Mexico's Pacific coast on Sunday and the U.S. National Hurricane Center said it was likely to reach tropical storm force.
Sunday, July 6, 2008 - 00:00
QUITO, Ecuador—Hundreds of jailed convicts are celebrating Ecuador's decision to pardon low-level drug couriers known as "mules."