The Los Angeles Times
Friday, October 3, 2008 - 00:00
For the first time in a decade, the makeup of the U.S. immigrant population may be shifting, with the number of illegal immigrants entering the country falling behind the number of those entering legally, according to an independent report released Thursd
Wednesday, October 1, 2008 - 00:00
Stretched thin in an uphill battle against drug gangs, the government of Mexican President Felipe Calderon faces increasingly stark options at a pivotal moment.
Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - 00:00
After being lectured for 20 years about the superiority of the free market, officials in Latin America see no small irony in the effort to bail out the U.S. banking system.
Monday, September 29, 2008 - 00:00
Voters overwhelmingly approved a new constitution Sunday that will concentrate power in the hands of socialist President Rafael Correa, advance his reformist agenda and enable him to remain in office until 2017
Monday, September 29, 2008 - 00:00
In the past week alone, the bodies of 45 young men have been found in unmarked graves, 23 of them in northern Santander province, sparking a furor
Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - 00:00
The renaming of a U.S. Embassy wing here in honor of a pilot killed by leftist rebels five years ago is expected to add a poignant postscript to the rescue of his three passengers by Colombian commandos in July.
Thursday, September 18, 2008 - 00:00
The devastated family was among many people in Mexico reeling Wednesday from what many considered an escalation in the vicious violence that has been racking the nation for months
Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 00:00
An agreement is hammered out on issues to be discussed. Five provinces aligned against President Evo Morales are calling for a greater share of the energy funds
Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 00:00
The arrest increased tension between the central government of President Evo Morales and the authorities in the tropical lowlands
Tuesday, September 16, 2008 - 00:00
A Mexican governor said today that organized crime was responsible for explosions at an Independence Day celebration that killed at least seven people and injured 101 in the colonial city of Morelia.