The Guardian (UK)
Friday, March 8, 2013 - 00:00
US colonel James Steele, a veteran of American proxy wars in El Salvador and Nicaragua, played a key role in training and overseeing US-funded special police commandos who ran a network of torture centres in Iraq
Friday, March 1, 2013 - 00:00
Hugo Chavez is still fighting for his life, said the country's vice-president on Thursday night, yet a recent poll says nearly three in five Venezuelans believe their president will return to power.
Friday, March 1, 2013 - 00:00
The relationship between Pena Nieto and Gordillo was straight from Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights
Thursday, February 28, 2013 - 00:00
US prosecutors and other senior officials who spearheaded the war against drug cartels have quit their jobs to defend Colombian cocaine traffickers.
Friday, February 22, 2013 - 00:00
Update on president's breathing problems since return from cancer clinic in Cuba says 'tendency has not been favourable'.
Thursday, February 21, 2013 - 00:00
Lenin Moreno, who was acting president of Ecuador while Rafael Correa ran for re-election, says he wants to quit the political stage and concentrate on social issues.
Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - 00:00
A delegation of American lawmakers led by Senator Patrick Leahy arrived in Cuba on Monday, in order to gauge the island's economic changes and to lobby on behalf of Alan Gross, an American whose detention has chilled relations between the two countries.
Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - 00:00
Correa was originally elected in the wake of an economic collapse so devastating that one in 10 left the country. Since then his "citizen's revolution" has cut poverty by nearly a third and extreme poverty by 45%.
Thursday, February 14, 2013 - 00:00
Several rebels also die in clash in southern Caqueta province, following several weeks of intensifying violence
Monday, February 4, 2013 - 00:00
Rare prolonged public appearance for retired leader as he casts ballot in Havana for election of national assembly.