The New York Times
Sunday, July 13, 2008 - 00:00
At one point in the first three months of 2008, the number of American military personnel members in Colombia passed the limit of 800 established by law
Wednesday, July 9, 2008 - 00:00
Farmers angry at President Alan Garcia’s free-trade policies began a two-day strike
Wednesday, July 9, 2008 - 00:00
Mayor Marcelo Ebrard, left, of Mexico City sought to defuse an escalating crisis over a botched police raid on a nightclub by accepting the resignations of the city’s police chief and its chief prosecutor.
Tuesday, July 8, 2008 - 00:00
Appearing healthy but thin in the face, the three Americans who were held captive in the Colombian jungle for more than five years made their first public appearance
Tuesday, July 8, 2008 - 00:00
The Mexico City government said it would turn a nightclub where 12 people died during a bungled police raid last month into a youth center to honor the victims.
Tuesday, July 8, 2008 - 00:00
“They rescued the trophy hostages, but what about those still in captivity?” a despondent Ms. Rivas, 59, said in an interview
Monday, July 7, 2008 - 00:00
Mr. da Silva has steadily peeled himself away from Venezuela’s leader and quietly supplanted him as he nurtures Brazil into a regional powerhouse
Sunday, July 6, 2008 - 00:00
RIO DE JANEIRO — After a marathon session that lasted through the night, Argentina’s lower house of Congress on Saturday narrowly approved agricultural export tax increases that the government imposed four months ago.
Saturday, July 5, 2008 - 00:00
RIO DE JANEIRO — Argentina’s lower house of Congress was preparing to vote late Friday night on whether to approve a government tax program for agricultural exports in the latest chapter of a bitter battle between farmers and the government of Preside
Saturday, July 5, 2008 - 00:00
PARIS — Two days after her rescue, six years after being captured by guerrillas in the Colombian jungle, Ingrid Betancourt arrived in Paris on Friday to thank the joyful nation that had championed her cause and to begin to share some of the painful deta