The Los Angeles Times
Wednesday, July 9, 2008 - 00:00
A third term, despite constitutional hurdles, appears increasingly likely
Monday, July 7, 2008 - 00:00
A Colombian government official who asked to remain unnamed said Sunday that authorities suspect Geneva-based Jean Pierre Gontard was the source for the Swiss radio report last week stating that officials paid a ransom
Monday, July 7, 2008 - 00:00
BOGOTA, COLOMBIA -- Colombian authorities sought over the weekend to discredit a Swiss academic and former intermediary in talks with a left-wing rebel group who has been linked to a disputed report that officials paid $20 million for last week's release
Sunday, July 6, 2008 - 00:00
There is finally a chance that, with nowhere else to turn, the rebels will sit down and negotiate in good faith
Sunday, July 6, 2008 - 00:00
In many ways, Mexico's democratic evolution has afforded the news media greater freedom than at any time in modern history. But at the same time, reporters are working on a battlefield: Mexico is considered the most dangerous Latin American nation in whic
Saturday, July 5, 2008 - 00:00
The sensational rescue of 15 hostages from the grip of Latin America's largest rebel group has highlighted the diminished state of an organization that just six years ago threatened to overrun the Colombian government
Saturday, July 5, 2008 - 00:00
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador -- Rescue crews recovered 29 bodies Friday from a raging, rain-fed river that swept a bus carrying members of an evangelical church off a bridge in El Salvador's capital.
Wednesday, July 2, 2008 - 00:00
He says U.S. businesses benefit from the exchange. He also supports that country's war on drugs. He will visit Mexico on Wednesday
Tuesday, July 1, 2008 - 00:00
After 8 years and billions spent, cocaine production in South America appears bulletproof
Monday, June 30, 2008 - 00:00
Alvarado's case raises complex questions that will increasingly face both state and federal judges: What happens when immigration law and family law conflict? When a parent is here illegally, does a federal deportation order automatically trump a state cu