Los Angeles Times
Thursday, April 18, 2013 - 00:00
Even before any legal motion was filed, the pro-government head of Venezuela's Supreme Court on Wednesday slapped down demands for a recount of the hotly contested presidential election.
Wednesday, April 17, 2013 - 00:00
Of the 25 officials arrested in 2008, only 13 were formally charged. Of those, eight have been released, including the most senior officials in the group. Four are in prison awaiting judicial rulings on their cases and a fifth was acquitted.
Tuesday, April 16, 2013 - 00:00
Well-placed sources say Maduro wants to get out from under the U.S. designation of Venezuela as a haven for drug traffickers and as being too amenable to nations such as Iran.
Monday, April 15, 2013 - 00:00
Vicente Diaz, a member of the council who represents the opposition, asked that all the votes be recounted manually, although council leader Tibisay Lucena said the results were "irreversible"
Friday, April 12, 2013 - 00:00
Debate is intensifying over armed vigilante patrols that have sprung up in crime-plagued sections of rural Mexico, particularly in the state of Guerrero, where some patrols joined forces this week with a radical teachers union.
Thursday, April 11, 2013 - 00:00
Newly released statistics indicate the number of homicides related to drug trafficking and other organized crime are only marginally changed from the same period last year, a blow to the government's attempts to recast Mexico's image.
Tuesday, April 9, 2013 - 00:00
Chile looks into claims by a former chauffeur that the Nobel Prize laureate may have received a lethal injection shortly after Salvador Allende was overthrown.
Tuesday, April 9, 2013 - 00:00
Carranza was never criminally convicted despite several prosecutions on charges that included kidnapping and sponsoring private militias
Wednesday, April 3, 2013 - 00:00
Americans need to revamp their image of who wants in, where they're coming from and why. Illegal immigration isn't what it used to be
Friday, March 29, 2013 - 00:00
Silva has thrown in the towel, saying he is deeply frustrated by government gridlock and bureaucracy. He plans to quit rather than seek a second term in next year's election