The New York Times
Sunday, June 8, 2008 - 00:00
Mr. Chavez, in his 10th year in power, is facing multiple challenges as a reinvigorated opposition fields candidates in regional elections this year and Venezuela’s economic growth slows
Thursday, June 5, 2008 - 00:00
The Rev. Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann, an outspoken leftist critic of the United States and a former foreign minister in Nicaragua’s Sandinista government, was elected president of the United Nations General Assembly
Thursday, June 5, 2008 - 00:00
A rare study conducted surreptitiously in Cuba found that more than half of those interviewed considered their economic woes to be their chief concern while less than 10 percent listed lack of political freedom
Wednesday, June 4, 2008 - 00:00
The Bush administration is right to acknowledge the shared threat and the common responsibility. But the three-year, $1.4 billion aid package it proposed doesn’t do the job
Tuesday, June 3, 2008 - 00:00
William P. Ford, a former Wall Street lawyer who spent more than two decades seeking to bring high-ranking military officials to justice after his sister and three other American churchwomen were murdered in El Salvador’s civil war in the 1980s, died on
Tuesday, June 3, 2008 - 00:00
The new law requires people in the country to comply with requests to assist the agencies, secret police or community activist groups loyal to Mr. Chavez. Refusal can result in prison terms
Saturday, May 31, 2008 - 00:00
He should resist that temptation and seek a political settlement to try to bring the rebels in from the cold. Colombia has seen more than enough bloodshed
Monday, May 26, 2008 - 00:00
If confirmed, the death of Mr. Marulanda, believed to be 76, would be a severe blow for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
Monday, May 26, 2008 - 00:00
Colombian military officials said they learned of Mr. Marulanda’s death on Friday through an intelligence source. Then on Saturday, they said, they intercepted a conversation about his death between FARC commanders
Monday, May 26, 2008 - 00:00
President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela has been caught. Despite his protestations of innocence, Interpol has corroborated the authenticity of thousands of computer files