The New York Times
Thursday, November 17, 2011 - 00:00
For now, it is just a single brick building called Campus Tecnologico, with workspaces, programming classes and eco-friendly signs asking people to turn off lights in unused bathrooms. But the developers' goal is to turn this five- or six-block area in th
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - 00:00
Retired General Otto Perez - the man formerly known as Major Tito -- was elected as Guatemala's president on Sunday. He will be the first military man to run the country since it returned to civilian rule in 1986, after a string of military dictatorships.
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - 00:00
Perez emerged as a leader, top of his academic class and a "standard-bearer" for the rest, recalls Mario Merida who was a year behind Perez at the Escuela Politecnica and later served as deputy intelligence director under his command.
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 - 00:00
Monday's official vote count shows that the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or the PRI, surged to victory by winning hundreds of thousands of votes back from the leftist party that pushed it out of the governorship 10 years ago in a pattern that, accor
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 - 00:00
But how far have Brazilian women come? They've moved ahead in education and health, according to new studies, and in the professions and technical fields. But their economic and political power has grown more slowly, and they lag in managerial and senior
Monday, November 14, 2011 - 00:00
The kidnapping ordeal of Washington Nationals catcher Wilson Ramos ended after two days when Venezuelan police commandos rescued him in a flurry of gunfire and arrested four alleged abductors.
Monday, November 14, 2011 - 00:00
About 3,000 police officers and soldiers moved into one of the largest slums here on Sunday in a pivotal effort by the government to assert control over lawless areas of the city ahead of the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Summer Olympics.
Friday, November 11, 2011 - 00:00
Mexican authorities describe the man, Ovidio Limon Sanchez, as a leader of the Sinaloa drug cartel, one of the largest and most powerful in Mexico.
Friday, November 11, 2011 - 00:00
Thousands of demonstrators rallied in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday against oil legislation that could cost the port city and surrounding state billions of dollars in revenues.
Friday, November 11, 2011 - 00:00
On Wednesday, Wilson Ramos, a promising catcher for the Washington Nationals, was taken by several men outside his parents' house east of Valencia, a city of more than two million people that is the third largest in Venezuela.