The New York Times
Thursday, March 31, 2011 - 00:00
Nicaragua said the former minister, Miguel D'Escoto Brockmann, 78, an outspoken critic of the United States and a Catholic priest, would replace the Libyan diplomat Ali Abdussalam Treki, who had been unable to obtain a visa.
Thursday, March 24, 2011 - 00:00
Most of the known cocaine shipments moving north, 84 percent of them, crossed through Central America last year, according to radar tracking data from American authorities - a sharp increase from 44 percent in 2008 and only 23 percent in 2006.
Thursday, March 24, 2011 - 00:00
The aggressive crackdowns on criminal organizations in Mexico and Colombia, coupled with strides in limiting smuggling across the Caribbean, has increasingly brought the powerful syndicates to countries like Honduras.
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 - 00:00
Mr. Obama in his speech here - to an elite audience that included Mr. Pinera, three former Chilean presidents, government ministers and diplomatic officials from around the region - was forward-looking and upbeat.
Monday, March 21, 2011 - 00:00
Mr. Obama and Dilma Rousseff, Brazil's first female president, have been a study in contrasts in how they handle the historic nature of their presidencies.
Friday, March 18, 2011 - 00:00
To many in Brazil, the Obama administration seems to talk the talk of multilateralism and dialogue, but when push comes to shove it is more comfortable with the more familiar unilateralism and monologue.
Friday, March 18, 2011 - 00:00
Ms. Rousseff, his former chief of staff, has shown she is more likely to pursue foreign policy driven by economic goals than by a desire for the kind of global grandeur that Mr. da Silva often sought, potentially mending some fences with the United States
Thursday, March 17, 2011 - 00:00
A journalist called as a key prosecution witness in the perjury trial of an elderly anti-Castro militant testified on Wednesday that the defendant had described in detailed interviews his role in a wave of bombings that tore through Havana in 1997.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011 - 00:00
Stepping up its involvement in Mexico's drug war, the Obama administration has begun sending drones deep into Mexican territory to gather intelligence that helps locate major traffickers and follow their networks, according to American and Mexican offic
Wednesday, March 16, 2011 - 00:00
To them, Aristide is the only political leader who has ever spoken for the country's poor majority, and his reportedly imminent return to Haiti after seven years of exile in South Africa would be nothing short of rapturous.