The Washington Post
Tuesday, December 8, 2009 - 00:00
President Hugo Chavez said Monday that Venezuela has received thousands of Russian-made missiles and rocket launchers as part of his government's military preparations
Tuesday, December 8, 2009 - 00:00
Officials say Rogaciano Alva made a fortune as a drug trafficker. After rivals' assassination attempts failed, he went in hiding
Tuesday, December 8, 2009 - 00:00
Bolivia's leftist president, Evo Morales, vowed Monday to increase state control over the economy and strengthen political power for indigenous groups
Monday, December 7, 2009 - 00:00
New constitutions in Bolivia and Ecuador, enacted under leftist presidents, enshrine Quechua as an official language, and Bolivia this year founded the first Quechua-speaking university
Friday, December 4, 2009 - 00:00
The United States has spent a fraction of the money pledged -- just $24 million of $1.3 billion appropriated -- to help Mexico
Thursday, December 3, 2009 - 00:00
Gilberto Salinas Doria pleaded guilty in December 2008 to drug conspiracy charges after being extradited from Mexico in March 2007
Tuesday, December 1, 2009 - 00:00
"We stood on principle, but Central America really matters to us. The U.S. can't have a totally destabilized Honduras," one senior U.S. official said
Monday, November 30, 2009 - 00:00
To its credit, the Obama administration is leading the support for the democratic option, even though that means departing from its policy of seeking consensus with the region's big powers
Monday, November 30, 2009 - 00:00
The Honduran crisis has caused a split between Washington and allies in the hemisphere that say they cannot recognize elections under a coup-installed government
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 - 00:00
Facing a group of presidents loudly critical of Washington, the U.S. government's Voice of America broadcast is expanding its audience in Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador and Nicaragua