The Los Angeles Times
Wednesday, January 27, 2010 - 00:00
Soccer-mad Mexico has been fixated on the mystery surrounding the shooting early Monday of Salvador Cabanas, a star forward for one of the country's most popular teams.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010 - 00:00
Venezuela continued its slide into authoritarianism Sunday when the administration ordered cable television operators to stop broadcasting Radio Caracas Television.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010 - 00:00
Government critics and supporters of Radio Caracas Television took to the streets of Caracas, the capital, and several other cities after companies dropped RCTV's programming under threat of losing their licenses.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010 - 00:00
A group of architects, engineers and urban planners has met every day since the devastating quake, discussing not how to rebuild but how to start anew.
Monday, January 25, 2010 - 00:00
Haitians might be expected to be resentful or fearful of a large contingent of U.S. soldiers and Marines. So far that does not seem to be the case.
Monday, January 25, 2010 - 00:00
A senior Italian official has strongly criticised the Haiti earthquake relief operation.
Friday, January 22, 2010 - 00:00
The move is aimed at taking some of the burden from the Port-au-Prince airport. Now run by the U.S. military, it is handling 120 to 140 flights a day, but there is a waiting list of 1,400 flights
Thursday, January 21, 2010 - 00:00
Gonzalez, who had been providing inmates with educational and social services, was arrested in 2006 and charged with the standard smear against activists who are thorns in the government's side: being a member of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
Thursday, January 21, 2010 - 00:00
All of the dead in the Durango prison uprising are inmates. The fighting is said to have been between members of rival drug-trafficking cartels
Thursday, January 21, 2010 - 00:00
They are mostly light-skinned, multilingual entrepreneurs with a dismal reputation for profiting handsomely on the backs of the poorest people in the hemisphere