The Washington Post
Thursday, June 19, 2008 - 00:00
The amount of land devoted to production of coca, the leaf used to make cocaine, has grown at a dramatic pace in Colombia despite a huge American-funded counter-drug program of aerial fumigation and aggressive interdiction
Monday, June 16, 2008 - 00:00
Daylight gun battles, beheadings and kidnappings have scared away tourists, forced layoffs and turned some areas of once-vibrant Mexican border cities into virtual ghost towns
Wednesday, June 11, 2008 - 00:00
If he matches his words with a full suspension of Venezuela's material support for the FARC, the guerrillas may feel compelled to take his advice
Wednesday, June 11, 2008 - 00:00
That's Chavez. You never know which character you're going to get. The lectern-pounding revolutionary? The petro-populist? The crooning romantic?
Monday, June 9, 2008 - 00:00
Some of those who know Cano, having rebelled with him in the 1970s or sat across from him in doomed peace talks, describe a man of keen intellect whose roots in communist politics make him the guerrilla commander best suited to lead the rebel group
Friday, June 6, 2008 - 00:00
The latest sign of this growing engagement will take place next week in Sacramento, Calif., when Chilean President Michelle Bachelet and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger launch a new partnership between Chile and the U.S.' most populous state
Tuesday, June 3, 2008 - 00:00
"Argentina is like a kid who makes a really good sand castle at the beach, takes a lot of care in building it just right, then steps on it himself"
Monday, June 2, 2008 - 00:00
Luis Eladio Perez, a spirited survivor of Colombia's war against the FARC who has made the rescue of three of its American victims a personal cause
Monday, May 26, 2008 - 00:00
Colombia's largest rebel group pledged Sunday to carry on in its decades-long war against the U.S.-backed government after confirming that the group's legendary commander had died of natural causes
Friday, May 23, 2008 - 00:00
Will these leaders come clean about mass killings? Will they divulge who in Colombia's political and business establishment supported, or even encouraged, their activities?