The Washington Post
Tuesday, April 14, 2009 - 00:00
President Obama yesterday announced a series of steps aimed at easing the U.S. relationship with Cuba, breaking from policies first imposed by the Kennedy administration
Tuesday, April 14, 2009 - 00:00
Below are contributions from Bernard Aronson, Jorge Castaneda, Andres Martinez, Peter Hakim, Wayne S. Smith and Sarah Stephens
Thursday, April 9, 2009 - 00:00
As long as Congress is moving to unilaterally dismantle U.S. leverage -- and shunning Cuba's democratic opposition -- the regime will have no incentive to compromise
Wednesday, April 8, 2009 - 00:00
The verdict, delivered by a three-judge panel on a police base outside Lima where Fujimori has been held throughout the trial, marked the first time that an elected head of state has been extradited back to his home country, tried and convicted of human r
Monday, April 6, 2009 - 00:00
U.S. officials acknowledged that about $7 million from the aid package has been spent - mostly on administration and planning. The most critical items, a $50 million surveillance plane and five rapid-response helicopters, may take as long as two years to
Monday, April 6, 2009 - 00:00
If you want to roll back a homegrown insurgency inflamed by a pesky neighbor, millions in drug profits and a weak central government, Colombia offers a far better classroom for learning how to beat the Taliban
Monday, April 6, 2009 - 00:00
The Americans wanted less cocaine coming from Colombia into the United States. Colombians wanted peace and stability. The lesson: Don't go after the drug crops first, do it later once the country has a functioning state
Monday, April 6, 2009 - 00:00
Visitors to the La Macarena region in the southeast part of Colombia can now see efforts to reintegrate -- actually, to integrate for the first time -- whole swaths of Colombia into the life of the nation
Friday, April 3, 2009 - 00:00
In one of the U.S.-Mexico border's most dangerous cities, body collectors are all-too-familiar sights, murders routinely go unsolved and whole neighborhoods are terrorized
Friday, April 3, 2009 - 00:00
With U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. sitting at his side during a news conference, Mexican Attorney General Eduardo Medina Mora stated that the two-day meeting devoted to stopping arms trafficking had produced "an agreement to create a joint