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Thursday, August 7, 2008 - 00:00
Still reeling from the impact of two dozen radical decree-laws recently issued by Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan opposition has slammed the surprise package as unconstitutional, with one of its leaders invoking civil disobedience. But the prospects for succe
Thursday, August 7, 2008 - 00:00
What a joke! The United Nations' brand new Human Rights Council Advisory Committee held its first session this week in Geneva and -- as unbelievable as it looks -- elected a Cuban official to chair the 18-country group.
Thursday, August 7, 2008 - 00:00
A welcome for another left-wing leader; but expect the pendulum to start swinging to the right
Thursday, August 7, 2008 - 00:00
Evo Morales, the radical leftist president who faces a recall vote this Sunday, was not welcome in Sucre this week
Thursday, August 7, 2008 - 00:00
We would be hiking through the jungle to look for signs of Colombian guerrillas operating in Ecuador. A few hundred yards into our first day's walk, I began to have doubts. It appeared that we were intentionally choosing the most difficult paths, up the s
Thursday, August 7, 2008 - 00:00
As Mexico wrestles with soaring inflation and interest rates, falling oil production and shrinking remittances, or money sent home by Mexicans working in the U.S., President Felipe Calderon on Wednesday announced a shake-up at the Economic Ministry
Thursday, August 7, 2008 - 00:00
Venezuela has sent 70 million liters (18.5 million gallons) of diesel fuel to support Paraguay's incoming president.
Thursday, August 7, 2008 - 00:00
CARACAS, Venezuela --
Venezuela's annual inflation climbed to 33.7 percent in July in metropolitan Caracas, but slowed its pace as price controls on food were eased and supply increased, the Central Bank said Thursday.
Wednesday, August 6, 2008 - 00:00
Colombian coffee exports were slowed on Tuesday in a six-day-old truck drivers' strike, keeping 30,000 60-kilogram sacks of beans per day from getting to port
Wednesday, August 6, 2008 - 00:00
General Oscar Naranjo, Colombia’s chief of police, announced baldly in Cartagena that over the past six years Colombia’s share of the world’s production of cocaine had fallen from 90 per cent to only 54 per cent