The New York Times
Friday, January 6, 2012 - 00:00
Throughout Mexico and much of Latin America, the old migratory patterns are changing. The mobile and restless are now casting themselves across a wider range of cities and countries in the region, pitting old residents against new, increasing pressure to
Friday, January 6, 2012 - 00:00
Now, Guzman is the greatest symbol of the cartels' defiance of Calderon, whose war unleashed a wave of gang violence that is eroding support for the PAN ahead of presidential elections on July 1. Calderon is barred by law from seeking a second term.
Thursday, January 5, 2012 - 00:00
Jamaica's first female prime minister has officially led her party to a landslide victory in general elections with final results announced Tuesday giving it a two-to-one margin in Parliament.
Thursday, January 5, 2012 - 00:00
A battle between rival gangs inside a prison in northern Mexico left at least 31 inmates dead in the latest violence to erupt inside the country's overcrowded penal institutions, local officials said on Wednesday.
Wednesday, January 4, 2012 - 00:00
Nearly 300 employers in South America's biggest country submit workers to slave-like conditions, Brazil's Labor Ministry said Tuesday.
Tuesday, January 3, 2012 - 00:00
Wildfires swept through unseasonably hot, dry parts of southern Chile on Monday, as firefighters struggled to extinguish the blazes and as the government of Sebastian Pinera, Chile's beleaguered billionaire president, defended its response.
Monday, January 2, 2012 - 00:00
Argentina's last military president has been found guilty of more crimes against humanity, this time getting 15 years for setting up a secret torture center inside a hospital during the 1976 military coup.
Monday, January 2, 2012 - 00:00
An international arbitration panel has ruled that Venezuela must pay Exxon Mobil more than $900 million in a long-simmering dispute over the nationalization of Exxon's assets in Venezuela's Orinoco Belt, one of the most coveted oil reserves outside the Mi
Wednesday, December 21, 2011 - 00:00
Brazil has begun to face the possibility that in the realm of human rights — unlike on regional economic and diplomatic matters — the mantle of leadership may not come so easily
Wednesday, December 14, 2011 - 00:00
The result, analysts believe, has been a deeper reliance on criminal enterprises — especially the South American cocaine trade — and on a mechanism to move its ill-gotten cash around the world