Time
Wednesday, November 7, 2007 - 00:00
On a veranda at the governor's residence in the southwestern Venezuelan state of Barinas, Narciso Chavez stands up, lifts a leg and stomps the ground several times, laughing.
Wednesday, October 31, 2007 - 00:00
The usually fiery "Cristina," as she is universally known in Argentina, said her huge popular victory — 44.9% of the vote in a field of 14 candidates — was "far from putting us in a position of privilege"
Monday, October 15, 2007 - 00:00
Fidel Castro made his first live appearance on Cuban airwaves since falling ill 14 months ago, sounding lucid and in good humor as he exchanged praise and jokes Sunday with the Venezuelan president
Wednesday, October 10, 2007 - 00:00
The idea of Iran's controversial President poking around in what had once been Washington's backyard provoked predictable expressions of alarm, but there may be less than meets the eye
Tuesday, October 9, 2007 - 00:00
Fidel Castro paid homage to Ernesto "Che" Guevara as an "exceptional combatant" while many of the Argentine guerrilla's relatives and former comrades gathered in central Cuba Monday to mark the 40th anniversary of his capture and killing
Monday, October 1, 2007 - 00:00
Senator and First Lady Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, 54, wife of President Nestor Kirchner, is all but certain to win Argentina's October 28 presidential election
Monday, October 1, 2007 - 00:00
Like Miss Havisham in Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, the remnants of many of Nicaragua's traditionally powerful families live in crumbling mansions in a no-longer politically relevant city
Monday, September 24, 2007 - 00:00
Both books contain important insights, and are welcome additions to our understanding of Venezuela — particularly this week, when Chavez, who is challenging Washington's hemispheric hegemony, is due to bring his anti-U.S. theatrics back to New York
Friday, September 14, 2007 - 00:00
The flight frustration, however, simply points up Venezuela's larger reality — and paradox. Chavez's revolution seems to be populated as much, if not more, by capitalist-minded consumers as by communist-minded comrades
Wednesday, September 12, 2007 - 00:00
The Nicaragua-Iran embrace includes four significant events since Ortega took office as the democratically elected leader of his country last January