The Washington Post
Wednesday, October 20, 2010 - 00:00
"As a victim, I will fight until the last day of my life for real justice, which only will be possible when former President Alvaro Uribe .... is convicted for the illegal persecution he led against more than 300 people in Colombia," Duque said
Wednesday, October 20, 2010 - 00:00
Mexican President Felipe Calderon's proposal to let civilian authorities rather than the military investigate and try some human rights cases involving troops doesn't go far enough, human rights groups said
Wednesday, October 20, 2010 - 00:00
Human rights organizations described the proposals as significant but incomplete
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 - 00:00
U.S. law enforcement officials say the most worrisome thing about the Fernando Sanchez Organization was how aggressively it moved to set up operations in the United States, working out of a San Diego apartment it called "The Office"
Friday, October 15, 2010 - 00:00
According to recent polls, Californians are on the verge of approving the legalization of marijuana and overthrowing nearly a century of failed American drug prohibition. Hail to the Golden State
Friday, October 15, 2010 - 00:00
It's not often enough recognized that Chile, which has embraced free markets and free trade to a far greater extent than has Brazil, has grown twice as fast over the past two decades.
Tuesday, October 12, 2010 - 00:00
Chileans have long fretted that aside from a dark dictatorship that ended in 1989, their country gets little attention.
Friday, October 8, 2010 - 00:00
The 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature has gone to a writer whose name is well known to and widely venerated by the global literary community.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010 - 00:00
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights condemned Mexico on Monday for failing to protect the rights of two indigenous women who were raped by soldiers in 2002.
Friday, October 1, 2010 - 00:00
The United States issued an unusual apology Friday to Guatemala for an experiment conducted in the 1940s in which prisoners, mental patients and soldiers were deliberately infected with sexually transmitted diseases, including syphilis and gonorrhea.