The Washington Post
Monday, December 15, 2008 - 00:00
While subsidies and low-interest loans sustain American farming, Argentina's government raises export taxes and calls the country's farmers greedy traitors out to topple the state
Friday, December 12, 2008 - 00:00
The paid assassins, known as sicarios, are rarely apprehended. Mexican officials say the commando squads probably travel from state to state
Monday, December 8, 2008 - 00:00
If Chavez wins that vote, to be held as early as February, the former army paratrooper could rule until at least 2019 -- 20 years after he first took office
Friday, December 5, 2008 - 00:00
The attorney general's office said that perhaps as many as 4 million people in a country of 44 million lost money, an estimated $1 billion in four hard-hit southern states alone
Thursday, December 4, 2008 - 00:00
The death squads of the drug cartels are killing in spectacularly gruesome ways, using the violence as a language to deliver a message to society
Tuesday, December 2, 2008 - 00:00
Let Russian ships practice all they want in the Caribbean, let Russian and Venezuelan thugs fight it out on gangplanks, let Medvedev spend as much time with Chavez and the Castros as he desires: Their friendship won't last if oil prices stay low, anyway
Monday, December 1, 2008 - 00:00
As credit dried up in early October and it became more expensive to secure car loans, Brazil's stock market plunged and its currency rapidly lost value. Automobile sales nationwide fell 11 percent from September to October
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 00:00
The attacks against journalists, which run from threats hissed on their cellphones to grenades lobbed into their newsrooms, form a new front in the larger war the drug cartels are waging
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 00:00
Opposition leaders on Monday characterized the victories as a product of the frustrations urban Venezuelans feel with mounting crime and other social ills
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 00:00
The opposition now has an opportunity to show that it can offer a workable alternative to Mr. Chavez's policies