The Los Angeles Times
Thursday, July 31, 2008 - 00:00
Mexico's central bank released a string of bad news Wednesday confirming that the nation is feeling the effects of a U.S. slowdown and exploding global prices for food and fuel.
Tuesday, July 29, 2008 - 00:00
Turnout was light, but voters in a nonbinding referendum gave an overwhelming "no" to President Felipe Calderon's proposal to give private firms a bigger role in Mexico's government-controlled petroleum industry
Monday, July 28, 2008 - 00:00
The opposition PRD organized the nonbinding vote on President Calderon's plan to partially privatize the beleaguered state oil firm Pemex
Monday, July 28, 2008 - 00:00
Smooth granite carved with nearly 30,000 names honors those slain or disappeared in the 1980s civil war, and the list keeps growing
Friday, July 25, 2008 - 00:00
Colombia accuses Jean-Pierre Gontard, who has been involved in hostage-release talks with the FARC, of being a money courier for the rebels. The Swiss say his work was 'exclusively humanitarian.'
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - 00:00
Deals on oil drilling and arms shipments mark the Venezuelan president's whirlwind trip to Moscow
Tuesday, July 22, 2008 - 00:00
The party faces more disarray after annulling a disputed leadership vote
Sunday, July 20, 2008 - 00:00
For now, Colombia is reaping a windfall. Known for legal exports such as coffee, bananas and oil as well as illegal tonnage of cocaine, it has quietly become a world player in coal
Friday, July 18, 2008 - 00:00
Colombian suppliers have increasingly used small, semi-submersibles to try to smuggle drugs north toward their eventual markets
Friday, July 18, 2008 - 00:00
Angelo Rivero Santos says Colombia's fight against its rebels ought to stay within its own borders. Andres Martinez says Hugo Chavez's public support for Colombia's government is less than genuine