Financial Times (UK)
Friday, April 17, 2009 - 00:00
It is welcome if belated recognition that half a century of US attempts to isolate and strangle Cuba, to cut it off from the free movement of people and goods, turned into a near-perfect mechanism for keeping Fidel Castro in power
Thursday, April 16, 2009 - 00:00
The success of the US administration's efforts to rebuild frayed alliances at this week's Summit of the Americas will depend on Mr Obama's adeptness in sidestepping criticism about his policy on Cuba and the US's role in the financial crisis
Wednesday, April 15, 2009 - 00:00
President Barack Obama will seek to forge a new relationship with Latin America that overcomes the antagonism of the Bush years when he travels to Trinidad and Tobago for a continent-wide summit on Friday.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009 - 00:00
President Barack Obama arrives in Mexico on Thursday for talks with Felipe Calderon, his Mexican counterpart, a day after naming a new "border tsar" to spearhead efforts to tackle illegal immigration and drug-related violence along the border.
Thursday, April 9, 2009 - 00:00
Colombian coffee prices have hit their highest level in 11 years in the wholesale market, forcing leading brands in the US to announce increases in their retail prices
Wednesday, April 8, 2009 - 00:00
The court was packed with observers and the families of people killed by the Colina paramilitary group
Wednesday, April 1, 2009 - 00:00
Latin America's biggest economies face close to zero growth over the next five years if the developed world does not pull out of the global economic crisis during the second half of 2009, the Inter-American Development Bank warned
Friday, March 27, 2009 - 00:00
Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Thursday blamed the global economic crisis on “white people with blue eyes” and said it was wrong that black and indigenous people should pay for white people’s mistakes.
Friday, March 27, 2009 - 00:00
Dennis Blair, the new US director of national intelligence, on Thursday said that Mexico was in “no danger of becoming a failed state”.
Friday, March 13, 2009 - 00:00
Argentine farmers pressing the government to lower export tariffs they say are bleeding them dry today marked the first anniversary of the start of their protest with a rally in the country’s second biggest city, and roadside demonstrations in key farmi