The New York Times
Wednesday, August 29, 2012 - 00:00
The presence of C.I.A. employees, and indeed all American operatives, on Mexican soil has long been a prickly subject here.
Wednesday, August 29, 2012 - 00:00
Five months later, the truce endures in El Salvador, long one of the most violent countries in the Americas.
Tuesday, August 28, 2012 - 00:00
President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia said on Monday that his government had held "exploratory conversations" with the country's largest rebel group.
Tuesday, August 28, 2012 - 00:00
The officers were being kept in seclusion at a government office in Mexico City, while their lawyers and relatives outside complained of having limited access to them.
Monday, August 27, 2012 - 00:00
They are not there to join the protests or interfere, only to monitor and record what happens when the police crack down on the protests - as they have done with increased violence this year.
Monday, August 27, 2012 - 00:00
Scenes of destruction extended for blocks through the working-class neighborhood near the Amuay oil refinery.
Wednesday, August 8, 2012 - 00:00
Brazil, which has more people of African descent than any other country outside of Africa itself, is assertively raising its profile again on the continent, building on historical ties.
Friday, August 3, 2012 - 00:00
In Cheran, a group of townspeople took loggers hostage, expelled the town's entire police force and representatives of established political parties, and forcibly closed the roads.
Monday, July 30, 2012 - 00:00
Uruguay has taken the experimentation to another level. United Nations officials say no other country has seriously considered creating a completely legal state-managed monopoly for marijuana.
Friday, July 27, 2012 - 00:00
Most said they believed that local officials and soldiers were in league with the traffickers and that passing along information about the traffickers' activities would result in reprisals.