The New York Times
Friday, March 2, 2012 - 00:00
By some estimates, over 43,000 prisoners now sit in Venezuelan prisons built with a capacity for fewer than 17,000. Guards really only control the perimeter of the jails.
Thursday, March 1, 2012 - 00:00
The head of the state-run oil company, Petroleos de Venezuela, has said that the company will continue to ship diesel fuel to Syria.
Thursday, March 1, 2012 - 00:00
Mr. Chavez's health saga has raised questions over his ability to campaign for re-election in October and to rule the country afterward should he win.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012 - 00:00
Declaring victory over what he called a "media dictatorship," President Rafael Correa of Ecuador said Monday that he would pardon three newspaper executives and a columnist who were sentenced to three years in prison in a libel case.
Monday, February 27, 2012 - 00:00
The prime minister of Haiti, whose abrupt resignation on Friday threw the country into political turmoil once again, said he knew his job was finished when he called cabinet ministers to a meeting a day earlier: None showed up.
Friday, February 24, 2012 - 00:00
Some masterpieces are unintentional, the result of a freakish accident or an explosive act of sheer weirdness, and the fence that divides Nogales, Ariz., from Nogales, Mexico, is one of them.
Thursday, February 23, 2012 - 00:00
A day before the United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to condemn President Bashar al-Assad of Syria this month for his bloody crackdown on the uprising in his country, President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela was conducting a very different kind
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - 00:00
The announcement comes at the start of what could be Mr. Chavez's most challenging re-election campaign since he first took office in 1999.
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - 00:00
The Venezuelan government says it will begin passenger services on the line later this year, running Chinese trains that go 135 miles per hour. Who on earth do they imagine is going to ride this thing?
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - 00:00
Ecuador’s highest court has delivered a staggering, shameful blow to the country's democracy, siding with President Rafael Correa’s campaign to silence and bankrupt El Universo.