The Los Angeles Times
Friday, July 18, 2008 - 00:00
The vice president casts the deciding vote against the new export tax, already in effect and causing protests
Friday, July 18, 2008 - 00:00
A crackdown on smugglers bringing migrants to Florida shores has caused a shift westward of the illegal traffic
Thursday, July 17, 2008 - 00:00
The nation's drug wars sank to new depths Wednesday as the Mexican navy announced it had seized a submarine that was transporting cocaine off the southern coast
Wednesday, July 16, 2008 - 00:00
Scooped up by gunmen as she walked near her home, 12-year-old Alexia Moreno hardly had a chance. The gangsters were driving straight into a shootout. Within minutes, she was dead, shot in the head as she cowered in the back seat.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008 - 00:00
Andres Martinez says cozying up to U.S. adversaries satisfies Hugo Chavez's more radical constituency. Angelo Rivero Santos says pragmatic foreign policy interests are at the heart of his president’s diplomacy
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 - 00:00
While the nation celebrates the recent rescue of 15 captives, families of 700 others taken by the same rebel group are left waiting
Monday, July 14, 2008 - 00:00
Andres Martinez says most Latin American countries have abandoned Hugo Chavez’s brand of leftism. Angelo Rivero Santos says Venezuelans have rejected the kind of neo-liberal economics that benefit only the elite
Sunday, July 13, 2008 - 00:00
'We have been disrespected,' President Correa says of Bogota during a radio talk. He declines to follow Venezuela's Hugo Chavez in repairing relations
Wednesday, July 9, 2008 - 00:00
Outrage grows over a raid to catch underage drinkers that resulted in 12 deaths. The mayor promises an overhaul of the police department
Wednesday, July 9, 2008 - 00:00
Illegal immigrants are ferried through this once unspoiled natural kingdom where drug traffickers land planes in fields carved from ancient forests