The Miami Herald
Sunday, December 23, 2007 - 00:00
Ecuador's leftist President Rafael Correa proposed Saturday pardoning the lengthy jail sentences of low-level drug couriers known as "mules" and drafting new laws that better reflect the severity of drug crimes
Wednesday, December 19, 2007 - 00:00
An alleged 'bagman' in a presidential campaign scandal used an FBI wire to show that Venezuela and Argentina plotted a coverup, a U.S. prosecutor said
Wednesday, December 19, 2007 - 00:00
Colombia's FARC rebels promised to release three kidnapping victims, including a 3-year-old boy, according to a Cuban news agency
Wednesday, December 19, 2007 - 00:00
The fallout from an alleged illegal campaign contribution from Venezuela to Argentina has U.S. policymakers and Argentine media nervous
Wednesday, December 19, 2007 - 00:00
It's been nearly a decade since pro-government villagers armed with guns and machetes slaughtered 45 men, women and children in the neighboring hamlet of Acteal - a massacre that remains emblematic of Mexico's human rights failures
Wednesday, December 19, 2007 - 00:00
The reference is found in a U.S. government transcript of the case in a Dec. 12 hearing in Miami federal court in which five suspects are accused of serving as unregistered agents of the Venezuelan government
Tuesday, December 18, 2007 - 00:00
House and Senate negotiators struck a deal on Latin America aid, trimming Plan Colombia and boosting outlays for Cuba democracy
Monday, December 17, 2007 - 00:00
President Cristina Fernandez fired the coast guard chief on Monday after a suspect in a human rights trial died of cyanide poisoning at a military brig
Sunday, December 16, 2007 - 00:00
Rather than reacting with statesmanship, she played the anti-American card, creating needless enemies among Republicans and Democrats in Washington
Tuesday, December 11, 2007 - 00:00
Cuba promised to sign United Nations civil rights agreements, but critics said the country's track record speaks for itself