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Thursday, October 23, 2008 - 00:00
The oil discovery has renewed debate over whether a crude-thirsty U.S. should loosen its 46-year-old trade embargo against Cuba and let yanqui firms join the drilling, which is taking place fewer than 100 miles off U.S. shores.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008 - 00:00
So, if Chile is no more dangerous now than it was five or ten years ago, why are Chileans more afraid?
Thursday, October 16, 2008 - 00:00
A protester holds up pictures of Zoila America, the stepdaughter of Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega, outside a Summit of Central American Presidents in Tegucigalpa.
Friday, October 10, 2008 - 00:00
Such is today's surreal situation that Washington is getting lectured on capitalism by Lula, the head of Brazil's leftist Workers' Party
Tuesday, October 7, 2008 - 00:00
Although Lula's Worker' Party (PT) had a strong showing around Brazil, the verdict of the voters appeared, at best, to be a mixed one.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008 - 00:00
Even without the oil find — which could make Brazil one of the world's largest crude producers — the economy is growing vigorously, and the nation's notorious social inequality is receding.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 00:00
At least 30 supporters of President Morales, and possibly a lot more, have been killed over the past week as an opposition campaign to obtain autonomy for the resource-rich eastern regions they control turned violent
Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 00:00
Ortega, pundits say, sees himself as a messianic figure sent to deliver the poor of Nicaragua to the "promised land," as his past campaigns have promised
Tuesday, September 9, 2008 - 00:00
Decapitations have become as commonplace in the increasingly vicious narco turf battles as stabbings are in London
Wednesday, September 3, 2008 - 00:00
It wasn't until Antonini's luggage was opened in 2007 — and until Colombian authorities claimed last spring that seized guerrilla laptops revealed Chavez payments of as much as $300 million to the FARC — that alleged evidence of Caracas' covert dealin