BBC (UK)
Friday, February 6, 2009 - 00:00
Mr Lopez was the last politician held by the Farc, but they are believed to be holding some 700 people for ransom
Friday, February 6, 2009 - 00:00
There was a carnival-style welcome for Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva when he visited the favela, or shanty town, of Santa Marta in Rio de Janeiro.
Thursday, February 5, 2009 - 00:00
They describe Mr Gamez Garcia as the money and logistics man in the Beltran Leyva organisation, with direct responsibility for buying high-quality cocaine from Colombia
Wednesday, February 4, 2009 - 00:00
Alan Jara, a former provincial governor, was greeted by his wife and son as he landed by helicopter in the town of Villavicencio, east of Bogota
Wednesday, February 4, 2009 - 00:00
The bodies of a retired brigadier general and two other men have been found near the Mexican resort of Cancun after a suspected drug cartel killing
Tuesday, February 3, 2009 - 00:00
A Red Cross team has flown by helicopter into the Colombian jungle to pick up a politician held by Farc rebels since 2001
Monday, February 2, 2009 - 00:00
The question of whether the past 10 years in Venezuela should be considered a success or a failure depends very much on one's political viewpoint
Wednesday, January 28, 2009 - 00:00
Israel says it has ordered Venezuela's diplomats to leave the country, following the decision by Venezuela to sever diplomatic relations
Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - 00:00
Argentina has declared an agricultural emergency as it confronts one of the worst droughts in decades
Monday, January 26, 2009 - 00:00
A man arrested by Mexican police says he disposed of 300 bodies for a drugs gang over the past decade by dissolving them in chemicals