The Boston Globe
Tuesday, July 1, 2008 - 00:00
CANCUN, Mexico—Police found 20 Cuban migrants hidden at two safe houses in the Mexican resort city of Cancun on Tuesday.
Tuesday, July 1, 2008 - 00:00
SAN MIGUEL DE TUCUMAN, Argentina—Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Tuesday his government is close to a compensation deal for the nationalization of Venezuela's largest steelmaker, Sidor.
Tuesday, July 1, 2008 - 00:00
For many in Brazil the highly trained BOPE unit is a source of pride, with a reputation for being efficient, incorruptible and the only force able to strike fear into the drug gangs that control Rio's violent slums, or favelas. Its profile was raised furt
Tuesday, July 1, 2008 - 00:00
LIMA, Peru—Peru's president said Tuesday that he's sick of Bolivian President Evo Morales criticizing Peru's trade pact with the United States, spreading false rumors about American military bases and urging Peruvians to protest in the street. Things re
Monday, June 30, 2008 - 00:00
SAN MIGUEL DE TUCUMAN, Argentina—South American trade bloc Mercosur is well-positioned to help member nations fight rising food prices and solve sporadic regional energy crunches, Argentina's top diplomat said Monday.
Monday, June 30, 2008 - 00:00
CARACAS, Venezuela—A fledgling church that openly backs President Hugo Chavez is raising the ire of Venezuela's Roman Catholic hierarchy, preaching the Gospel alongside socialism.
Monday, June 30, 2008 - 00:00
MEXICO CITY—The man who ran a Mexico City nightclub where 12 people died in a stampede will be charged with involuntary homicide, prosecutors said Monday.
Monday, June 30, 2008 - 00:00
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - A Chilean judge on Monday added two life terms to the jail time of Augusto Pinochet's secret police chief for the murder of a former army chief and his wife in Argentina, the toughest penalty for dictatorship-era abuses to date.
Monday, June 30, 2008 - 00:00
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian President Alvaro Uribe deepened his feud with the courts on Monday by going ahead with plans for a referendum aimed at rerunning the 2006 election in which he won a second term.
Thursday, June 26, 2008 - 00:00
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico—A Canadian judge said in a ruling Wednesday that the U.S. military's treatment of a teenage detainee at Guantanamo Bay violated international laws against torture.