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Tuesday, February 17, 2009 - 00:00
Analysts say that's why Mr. Chavez held the referendum now, before the crisis hits Venezuelans harder. He is trying to avoid cutting areas that benefit the poor
Tuesday, February 17, 2009 - 00:00
Bitter enemies though they are, Fidel Castro and Alvaro Uribe agree on one thing: Peace in Colombia will never happen without a decisive military victory.
Monday, February 16, 2009 - 00:00
Today, as Mexican troops enter their third year of deployment to destabilize the cartels that move drugs north, it is tempting to look to Colombia for a template
Monday, February 16, 2009 - 00:00
Noe Ramirez, who stepped down as chief of the SIEDO federal investigation unit in July last year, was detained in November for allegedly receiving $450,000 for passing secrets to the Sinaloa cartel
Monday, February 16, 2009 - 00:00
Mexico’s hillbilly drug smugglers have morphed into a raging insurgency. Violence claimed more lives there last year alone than all the Americans killed in the war in Iraq. And there’s no end in sight
Monday, February 16, 2009 - 00:00
Now that violence is spilling over the border like never before — to Tuscon and Atlanta. Phoenix is the new capital of kidnappings for ransom
Monday, February 16, 2009 - 00:00
The falling oil price will soon undercut Chavez's grip on power in Venezuela
Monday, February 16, 2009 - 00:00
Chavez also has to contend with an increasingly gloomy economic outlook. His country remains heavily dependent on oil income, which has plummeted
Monday, February 16, 2009 - 00:00
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez scored a victory in his drive to stay in power as voters scrapped constitutional term limits that would have forced him from office in 2013
Monday, February 16, 2009 - 00:00
The fiery leftist president told ecstatic supporters that his nine-point win in a referendum on removing term limits had exploded the barriers to a permanent socialist revolution