The New York Times
Friday, December 10, 2010 - 00:00
Gunmen blockaded President Felipe Calderon's hometown on Thursday, forcing drivers from their cars, trucks and buses, then setting the vehicles ablaze in the middle of major intersections.
Friday, December 10, 2010 - 00:00
One week after the Alemão operation, the culmination of a weeklong street battle against drug gangs that claimed dozens of lives across Rio, residents here were viewing the security presence through cautious eyes.
Friday, December 10, 2010 - 00:00
Haitians prepared for armed clashes and more days of flaming barricades as rival candidates called on supporters to take to streets and tip the balance in a sharply disputed presidential election leading.
Thursday, December 2, 2010 - 00:00
On Wednesday, Venezuela's president, Hugo Chavez, opened the doors of the neoclassical building to a new set of residents: flood victims.
Monday, November 29, 2010 - 00:00
By early afternoon the military police had raised the flags of Brazil and Rio de Janeiro atop a building on the highest hill in the Alemão shantytown complex.
Monday, November 29, 2010 - 00:00
It was a day of contrasts for voters in Haiti's first election since the January earthquake - excitement and exasperation, accusations and denials of efforts to rig the results.
Monday, November 29, 2010 - 00:00
Friday's activity, at the Alemão complex of shantytowns, which is home to about 400,000 residents and considered by many to be the most violent of the city's slums, is a response to the latest eruption of gang violence.
Tuesday, November 23, 2010 - 00:00
A raging cholera epidemic in Haiti may deter some voters from participating in Sunday's national elections
Monday, November 22, 2010 - 00:00
Crushed buildings from the January earthquake still spill out onto sidewalks here, people are collapsing from cholera at hospital doors and a wave of rioting last week reminded Haitians of political turmoil of the past.
Monday, November 22, 2010 - 00:00
Thousands of Haitians have been treated for signs for cholera in recent weeks.