Los Angeles Times
Wednesday, August 21, 2013 - 00:00
Congress was poised to change the law governing the Federal Institute for Access to Information, or IFAI, in ways that critics say will gut the public's ability to gain access to important, sometimes sensitive, material.
Tuesday, August 13, 2013 - 08:26
It was vintage Robert Mugabe. The Zimbabwean president, famous for his acerbic tongue, told defeated election rivals on Monday to commit suicide, declaring that they could "go hang."
Mugabe and his ZANU-PF party won a controversial landslide vote in elections last month, though local observers declared the balloting seriously compromised and Western governments expressed concern about the many irregularities.
Friday, August 9, 2013 - 00:00
The amount of cocaine produced in Colombia last year was estimated at about 340 tons, comparable to the figure in 2011.
Wednesday, August 7, 2013 - 07:49
Federal criminal charges have been filed against one or more suspects in the lethal attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, last year, two law enforcement sources said Tuesday.
Wednesday, August 7, 2013 - 00:00
Foreign Minister Maria Angela Holguin wrote to Nicaragua that Colombia would "not accept nor permit" oil exploration in the disputed parts of a 7,000-square-mile area in the southwestern Caribbean.
Tuesday, August 6, 2013 - 00:00
"If in November we haven't finished entirely, we'll see where we are, and if we have to prolong the talks a couple of months, we'll extend them," Santos told Caracol Radio in Bogota.
Tuesday, August 6, 2013 - 00:00
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto wants to open the Pemex oil monopoly to private and foreign investment. To many Mexicans, that's blasphemy.
Tuesday, July 30, 2013 - 00:00
Until its long-running civil war is truly concluded, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights is needed there.
Tuesday, July 30, 2013 - 00:00
Three men arrested in the slaying of a Mexican navy vice admiral have confessed that they were present at the time of the crime, and that they are members of a drug cartel that has been terrorizing the area.
Monday, July 29, 2013 - 00:00
Salazar was the commander of the Eighth Naval Zone, with headquarters in Puerto Vallarta, in the neighboring state of Jalisco.