The New York Times
Wednesday, September 25, 2013 - 00:00
Two-thirds of Mariel's $900 million cost has been financed with investment from Brazil, whose president, Dilma Rousseff, is expected to visit in January for the inauguration of the first stage of operations.
Wednesday, September 25, 2013 - 00:00
The Pentagon has rejected a military request that it spend $195.7 million to renovate the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Wednesday, September 25, 2013 - 00:00
Credit cards are used abroad to get a cash advance -- rather than buying merchandise. The dollars are then carried back into Venezuela and sold on the black market for some seven times the original exchange rate.
Wednesday, September 25, 2013 - 00:00
"Right here, in this same headquarters, 52 years ago, the convention that gave birth to the war on drugs was approved. Today, we must acknowledge, that war has not been won," Santos told world leaders.
Wednesday, September 25, 2013 - 00:00
"Even in Mexico City, where there is probably a better police force than anywhere else ... even here there's a completely dysfunctional police system."
Wednesday, September 25, 2013 - 00:00
Brazil's president delivered a stinging rebuke Tuesday to the United States over its surveillance program that has swept up data from billions of telephone calls and emails that have passed through Brazil - including her own.
Wednesday, September 25, 2013 - 00:00
Eight National Guard troops have now been arrested following the September 20 drug haul that was valued at as much as 200 million euros ($270 million).
Tuesday, September 24, 2013 - 12:03
Claiming to have “ashamed and defeated our attackers,” President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya on Tuesday declared victory over the Islamists militants who stormed into a crowded Nairobi shopping mall and killed dozens of civilians.
Tuesday, September 24, 2013 - 00:00
Witness statements cast doubt on a possible drug gang link.
Tuesday, September 24, 2013 - 00:00
Relatives of Oswaldo Paya, one of the most important leaders of Cuba's small opposition and who had Spanish nationality, believe two Cuban army officials deliberately drove him off the road.