The New York Times
Monday, October 26, 2009 - 00:00
Jose Mujica, a Socialist senator who spent 14 years in prison for waging an urban guerrilla war against the military dictatorship here, was the candidate of the governing Broad Front coalition
Friday, October 23, 2009 - 00:00
Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya pulled out of talks with the country's post-coup de facto leaders on Friday, throwing efforts to resolve a months-long political crisis back to square one
Friday, October 23, 2009 - 00:00
Drug gangs operate with impunity in the jungles of northern Guatemala, where they receive shipments of South American cocaine and ship them across the border into Mexico
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 - 00:00
Suddenly, the celebration has been overwhelmed by hand-wringing that Rios chronic drug violence, its Achilles heel, is being laid bare before the world
Monday, October 19, 2009 - 00:00
To many Hondurans, the little saint has taken on special significance in a political crisis that has uncovered pent-up social hostility since the president was deposed nearly four months ago. To many here, it seems this country has lost its way, and they
Monday, October 19, 2009 - 00:00
Internet access is tightly limited in Cuba, and Ms. Sanchez has often had to play cat-and-mouse with the authorities to make her writings available, either inside Cuba or outside of it. And when the Cabot awards were announced, she was denied an exit visa
Friday, October 16, 2009 - 00:00
These days, visitors travel by propeller plane over the bleak savanna to get here, or by bus past the occasional guerrilla or paramilitary checkpoint. The visitors rarely come. But when they do, they get a glimpse into a four-decade experiment to alter ci
Friday, October 16, 2009 - 00:00
The Glenn Gould Foundation has awarded its main prize to Jose Antonio Abreu, below, the founder of a music education project for poor children in Venezuela, called El Sistema, which has spread around the world.
Friday, October 16, 2009 - 00:00
For more than a decade, a landmark project in Bolivia has allowed three major polluters — American Electric Power, BP and PacifiCorp — to finance conservation efforts in a Bolivian rain forest to offset their emissions elsewhere around the world.
Friday, October 16, 2009 - 00:00
A federal judge in Miami approved a lighter sentence Tuesday for one of five Cubans convicted in 2001 of spying on anti-Castro Cuban exiles.