The New York Times
Tuesday, January 8, 2008 - 00:00
Hector Febres, a defendant in a high-profile human rights case, died Dec. 10 of cyanide poisoning in the comfortable suite where he was held in a coast guard complex
Sunday, January 6, 2008 - 00:00
A DNA analysis released on Friday indicated that a 3-year-old boy born in the Colombian jungle to a woman kidnapped by Marxist guerrillas may have been living near his relatives, without their knowledge, in a foster home in Bogota
Sunday, January 6, 2008 - 00:00
The case has become both an international dispute and a political spectacle. And it has proved not who killed Ms. Jimenez, but that justice here is a nebulous concept
Wednesday, January 2, 2008 - 00:00
Last week, Venezuela’s president, Hugo Chavez, seemed on the verge of one of his biggest triumphs to date. Now, amid renewed acrimony with the Colombian leader, Álvaro Uribe, he is staring at his second major political defeat
Sunday, December 30, 2007 - 00:00
By some estimates, around 120,000 of Venezuela’s university students have become politically active since May, when the government closed the nation’s oldest television station
Thursday, December 27, 2007 - 00:00
Peru’s former president, Alberto Fujimori, on trial over army massacres during his term, said Wednesday that he had set only general policy and never ordered a “dirty war”
Wednesday, December 26, 2007 - 00:00
Two gangs that originated on the streets here have grown so large in El Salvador that there are two prisons in that country devoted exclusively to their members, one for each gang
Tuesday, December 25, 2007 - 00:00
Attackers threw dynamite at a trade union building here on Monday, and the government said it suspected a “terrorist” group intent on destabilizing
Friday, December 21, 2007 - 00:00
A federal grand jury here indicted four Venezuelans and one Uruguayan on Thursday on charges of illegally operating as agents of the Venezuelan government in covering up a scheme to deliver $800,000 in a cash-filled suitcase
Sunday, December 16, 2007 - 00:00
Tens of thousands of antigovernment demonstrators flooded the streets of this city and three other provincial capitals on Saturday as four of Bolivia’s wealthiest provinces celebrated efforts to seek greater autonomy