Associated Press
Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 00:00
President Bush has determined that Bolivia is no longer cooperating in the war on drugs, placing it on a counter-narcotics blacklist along with Venezuela
Monday, September 15, 2008 - 00:00
President Hugo Chavez reprimanded skeptics on Sunday for questioning his warnings that Washington is out to kill him
Monday, September 15, 2008 - 00:00
Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, who is temporary president of the 12-member Union of South American Nations, called the summit after speaking by phone with Morales late Friday
Monday, September 15, 2008 - 00:00
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega says he will reject an invitation to meet with President Bush out of "solidarity" with Bolivia in its diplomatic spat with Washington
Friday, September 12, 2008 - 00:00
Justice Minister Tarek El Aissami said Thursday the deportation of Marcos Orozco Wilches and Aldo Alvarez Duran demonstrates that Venezuela is serious about fighting trafficking
Friday, September 12, 2008 - 00:00
Simmering ideological tensions between President Bush and the populist presidents of Bolivia and Venezuela boiled over on Wednesday and Thursday in twin diplomatic spats that threaten U.S. counternarcotics operations in the region
Friday, September 12, 2008 - 00:00
Anti-government protesters fought backers of President Evo Morales on Thursday in Bolivia's pro-autonomy east with clubs, machetes and guns and seized more natural gas fields
Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 00:00
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ordered his intelligence czar to oversee the handling of an international cash scandal last year, a prosecution witness told jurors
Sunday, August 3, 2008 - 00:00
Chavez claims the U.S. Navy's Fourth Fleet poses a threat to Venezuela, and he's vowing to push forward with a multibillion-dollar arms buildup
Saturday, August 2, 2008 - 00:00
Uribe called the sentences "a joke" and said he plans to ask U.S. justice officials for a "severe minimum penalty."