The Washington Post

Tuesday, March 17, 2009 - 00:00
President-elect Mauricio Funes said he wants strong relations with Washington after his party of ex-Marxist guerrillas ousted their right-wing civil war foes
Tuesday, March 17, 2009 - 00:00
El Salvador's president-elect promised yesterday that he would serve as a moderate, open-minded leader who would work to improve economic conditions, lift the poor and heal lingering wounds
Monday, March 9, 2009 - 00:00
Funes and the FMLN use images of Obama in their ads (despite objections by the U.S. State Department) -- saying both candidates were smeared by their opponents as allies of extremists
Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 00:00
Days after President Hugo Chavez won a referendum to eliminate term limits, Congressman Juan Jose Molina stood up in the National Assembly and called the victory "a major fraud" made possible by weak institutions and a populace manipulated by an
Monday, February 23, 2009 - 00:00
THE THREAT CLOSER TO HOME <br /> <br />Hugo Chávez And the War Against America <br /> <br />This Story <br />FOREIGN POLICY: How Dangerous Is This Man? <br />Chapter One: Read an Excerpt of 'The Threat Closer to Home' <br />By Douglas Schoen and Michael Rowan <br /> <br />Free Press. 220 pp. $25 <br /> <br />Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez would be getting a lot more ink in U.S. newspapers if the United States weren't focused on fighting two wars.
Friday, February 20, 2009 - 00:00
In a speech commemorating the founding of the Mexican army, Calderon suggested that drug bosses had paid marchers who took to the streets this week to protest the army's presence in a dozen cities
Tuesday, February 17, 2009 - 00:00
In all three cases, from the Venezuelan charter in 1999 to the new constitutions in Ecuador last year and Bolivia last month, a team of Spanish legal scholars influenced the conception, drafting or implementation of the documents
Thursday, February 12, 2009 - 00:00
With George W. Bush gone, Venezuela's strongman has found new enemies.
Monday, February 9, 2009 - 00:00
The speculation about his continued viability is fueled by the fact that Castro, 82, has not been seen in public since the summer of 2006
Monday, February 9, 2009 - 00:00
Today the United States-Mexico border has been pancaked between a collapsed economy to the north and brutal drug thugs to the south

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