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Tuesday, June 30, 2009 - 00:00
Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner faces two years as a lame-duck president of Argentina after losing the two-thirds majority she needed in Congress to push through economic reforms.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009 - 00:00
Obama also commended Uribe for improvements on respect for human rights in the South American nation but added that more needed to be done
Tuesday, June 30, 2009 - 00:00
According to the Ecuadorian daily newspaper El Commercio, Santos is wanted for murder and violating Ecuador's internal security
Tuesday, June 30, 2009 - 00:00
Obama might think about risking the topic of presidential term limits given the current climate in Latin America, where public sentiment is running strong against tinkering with constitutions
Tuesday, June 30, 2009 - 00:00
OUR OPINION: Military force no way to deal with constitutional crisis in Honduras
Tuesday, June 30, 2009 - 00:00
President Obama on Monday strongly condemned the ouster of Honduras's president as an illegal coup that set a "terrible precedent" for the region, as the country's new government defied international calls to return the toppled president to powe
Tuesday, June 30, 2009 - 00:00
The weekend ouster of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya showed just how easily Latin American countries can plunge into crises when their institutions prove too weak to resolve stand-offs between government branches, analysts say.
''The larger set o
Monday, June 29, 2009 - 00:00
When Plan Colombia began ten years ago, economic assistance like the crop substitution program was just a small part of the budget. That kind of aid has been slowly increasing, even as military assistance has decreased
Monday, June 29, 2009 - 00:00
Speaking on the floor of the Senate Thursday, Senator Mike Johanns, R-Neb., urged Congress to implement the U.S.-Colombia trade agreement
Monday, June 29, 2009 - 00:00
The success in Colombia is, in part, due to a shift from aerial fumigation of crops to manual eradication on the ground