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Wednesday, January 21, 2009 - 00:00
The Uribe government fearfully awaits Barack Obama, who thinks quite differently from the Bush administration
Wednesday, January 21, 2009 - 00:00
Indigenous communities in northwestern Zulia state complain that Colombian rebels are encroaching on their towns, taking their land and supplies and eroding their culture
Wednesday, January 21, 2009 - 00:00
Mexican cartels have taken over most of the drug trade in the United States, and are working with 20 gangs, including the Barrio Aztecas, according to a just-released report by the National Drug Intelligence Center
Wednesday, January 21, 2009 - 00:00
The only two countries surveyed whose residents are more likely to describe themselves as capitalist than socialist are Panama and Mexico
Wednesday, January 21, 2009 - 00:00
Retiring CIA chief Michael Hayden told reporters on Friday that that Mexico could rank alongside Iran as a challenge for Obama – perhaps a greater problem than Iraq.
Friday, January 16, 2009 - 00:00
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva urged U.S. President-elect Barack Obama on Thursday to drop outdated U.S. views of Latin America as a region of communists, terrorists and drug traffickers
Friday, January 16, 2009 - 00:00
Indigenous Venezuelans get welfare but, so far, not much land
Friday, January 16, 2009 - 00:00
Togo has agreed to extradite to the U.S. an alleged druglord from Colombia who was arrested trying to smuggle hundreds of pounds (kilograms) of cocaine through this West African nation
Friday, January 16, 2009 - 00:00
West Africa has become a major staging post for South American drug traffickers on the route to Europe
Friday, January 16, 2009 - 00:00
Bush’s support for Colombia is typical of U.S. foreign policy. Bill Clinton before him lavished aid on the Colombian government, despite knowledge of that government’s bloody hands