Latin Correspondent
Tuesday, December 9, 2014 - 06:39
President Juan Manuel Santos recently announced the creation of a new pilot program for illicit crop substitution to begin in southern Colombia in April of next year.
Friday, December 5, 2014 - 06:37
President Enrique Peña Nieto has visited the tumultuous southern state of Guerrero for the first time since 43 college students disappeared there more than two months ago, provoking the greatest crisis of his presidency.
Thursday, December 4, 2014 - 06:40
For observers of the ongoing protests in Mexico, which were sparked by the September 26 disappearance of 43 students in the state of Guerrero, the question that loomed as the sun went down on December 1 — the last day in a series of planned strikes and protests that began on November 20 — was “What next?”
Tuesday, December 2, 2014 - 06:44
Just nine months after Peña Nieto appeared on the cover of Time magazine with the headline “Saving Mexico,” scandals and crises have pushed his approval rating down to around 40 percent.
Tuesday, November 25, 2014 - 06:30
The U.S. Embassy in Mexico says the U.S. government will provide $68 million over five years to assist Mexico’s effort to reform its court and justice system.
Wednesday, November 19, 2014 - 22:25
An anti-government protest in Haiti’s capital became violent as three people were apparently shot in a volatile neighborhood.
Friday, November 14, 2014 - 06:24
Police in Colombia have arrested Peru’s No. 1 fugitive, a businessman accused of amassing a fortune through money laundering of over $200 million.
Tuesday, November 11, 2014 - 07:06
The Colombian government and the FARC rebels have been in Havana, Cuba, since 2012, negotiating a deal to end the country’s 50-year armed conflict. The two sides have already agreed upon three of the five points on the agenda of the peace talks: rural land reform, political participation, and illicit drugs.
Thursday, November 6, 2014 - 06:23
The specifics are still unclear, but one thing is certain: at least nine people were killed last night in the Brazilian city of Belém — and residents say the police are the ones responsible.
Tuesday, October 7, 2014 - 06:54
Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro says evidence implicates a conservative former Colombian leader in last week’s stabbing death of a loyalist Venezuelan congressman.