The New York Times
Tuesday, August 5, 2008 - 00:00
The presidents of Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela held an impromptu summit meeting late Monday in Buenos Aires to bolster what the Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez, said was “the main axis of South America.”
Tuesday, August 5, 2008 - 00:00
President Hugo Chavez is using his decree powers to enact a set of socialist-inspired measures that seem based on a package of constitutional changes that voters rejected last year. His actions open a new stage of confrontation between his government and
Tuesday, August 5, 2008 - 00:00
Our federal government should also require that every illegal immigrant’s native country repay us monetarily for whatever debt was incurred. Of course, any employer who employed an illegal immigrant should be required to pay back pay for full wages earn
Sunday, August 3, 2008 - 00:00
BUENOS AIRES — After months of political turmoil and a plummeting approval rating, Argentina’s leader, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, gave the first news conference of her eight-month presidency on Saturday.
Saturday, August 2, 2008 - 00:00
The central bank sought on Friday to calm fears of faltering banks a day after President Hugo Chavez unexpectedly announced the nationalization of a large Spanish-owned bank
Friday, August 1, 2008 - 00:00
The leaders of the Reformed Catholic Church, however, say their new church represents a fusion of the best of Anglican and Roman Catholic traditions. And though they adamantly deny receiving financing from Mr. Chavez’s government and insist that their c
Thursday, July 31, 2008 - 00:00
Brazil, South America’s largest economy, is finally poised to realize its long-anticipated potential as a global player, economists say, as the country rides its biggest economic expansion in three decades.
Thursday, July 31, 2008 - 00:00
When President Raul Castro spoke last week at the old military garrison where he and his older brother Fidel began the Cuban revolution 55 years ago, the younger Mr. Castro looked minuscule compared with the outsize banner looming over him of his bearded
Sunday, July 27, 2008 - 00:00
Soaring coca cultivation, forced disappearances, assassinations, the displacement of families and the planting of land mines stubbornly persist, the hallmarks of a backlands conflict that threatens to drag on for years
Friday, July 25, 2008 - 00:00
Mr. Menendez, 81, was stone-faced and silent as the televised verdict was read to loud cheers inside and outside the courtroom