The Houston Chronicle
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - 00:00
Venezuela signed over three more oil fields to a joint venture with Belarus on Wednesday, with President Hugo Chavez declaring that the two nations were strongly united in their resistance to "U.S. imperialism"
Sunday, July 20, 2008 - 00:00
After a daring rescue that freed 15 Colombian hostages, many return to strained relationships and family feuds
Saturday, July 19, 2008 - 00:00
Investigators believe the eight killed — and the two other youths and three men severely wounded in the attack — were shot because they unknowingly blocked the path of gangsters chasing an assassination target
Saturday, July 19, 2008 - 00:00
Surging fuel prices have ignited inflation throughout the region, driving up the cost of food, whose prices were already on the upswing
Thursday, July 17, 2008 - 00:00
President Alvaro Uribe of Colombia apologized Wednesday after revealing that a nervous army officer who helped rescue 15 hostages attached a Red Cross logo to his vest
Wednesday, July 16, 2008 - 00:00
About 200 Mexican federal police reinforcements flew into Sinaloa Tuesday as authorities struggled to control the narcotics-related violence roiling the Pacific Coast state
Monday, July 14, 2008 - 00:00
Innocent civilians, once considered largely off-limits, now find themselves increasingly targeted
Saturday, July 12, 2008 - 00:00
The mock humanitarian mission had a lot of moving parts and, by some estimates, had only a 50 percent chance of success. But it was low-risk
Thursday, July 10, 2008 - 00:00
Marcos Castillejos, 65 — a former federal assistant attorney general whose clients included an ex-president of Guatemala and the sons of former first lady Marta Sahagun — was gunned down
Tuesday, July 8, 2008 - 00:00
Euphoria over last week's rescue of the hostages, including former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt and three U.S. military contractors, has been tempered as the focus turns to the fate of the estimated 700 prisoners still held