The Houston Chronicle
Wednesday, April 15, 2009 - 00:00
President Hugo Chavez's government plans to reactivate its demand this week for the U.S. to extradite a former CIA operative accused of plotting the 1976 bombing of a Cuban plane, a lawyer for the Venezuelan government said Wednesday.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009 - 00:00
President Hugo Chavez is urging Colombia's largest rebel group to agree to a proposed cease-fire with the U.S.-backed government of Alvaro Uribe.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009 - 00:00
The Merida Initiative, originally envisioned as a three-year, $1.4 billion plan, has not been fully funded in its first two years. That must change
Wednesday, April 1, 2009 - 00:00
Prosecutors are seeking to try Maracaibo Mayor Manuel Rosales on a corruption charge. Rosales calls it an attempt by Chavez to eliminate him from politics
Monday, March 30, 2009 - 00:00
On this side of the border, the day is coming when the country must look seriously at ways to rein in the multibillion-dollar market that enriches the drug lords while filling American prisons with inmates
Friday, March 27, 2009 - 00:00
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton toured a state-of-the-art police center in Mexico City and condemned drug violence as she ended a two-day visit that centered heavily on the drug war.
Monday, March 23, 2009 - 00:00
Ditches don’t always deter raids, but federal troops can’t be spared
Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 00:00
The Obama administration plans to deploy additional federal law enforcement agents to the U.S.-Mexico border to choke off southbound shipments of automatic weapons and cash drug proceeds that are fueling the Mexican cartels' murderous resistance to Mexico
Friday, March 13, 2009 - 00:00
Mexico has extradited two former U.S. Border Patrol agents accused of taking bribes from migrant smugglers.
Thursday, March 12, 2009 - 00:00
President Michelle Bachelet is promoting her ambassador to the United States to the post of foreign minister while sending the current defense minister to Washington.