Monte Reel
Wednesday, March 23, 2016 - 06:52
After Sept. 11, the U.S. military rushed to establish its first base dedicated to counterterrorism, and Djibouti was about the only country in the neighborhood that wasn’t on fire.
Tuesday, June 3, 2008 - 00:00
"Argentina is like a kid who makes a really good sand castle at the beach, takes a lot of care in building it just right, then steps on it himself"
Friday, March 21, 2008 - 00:00
After three years of declining rates of deforestation, satellite images released in January showed that as much as 2,700 square miles of land in the Brazilian Amazon had been cleared in the final five months of 2007
Tuesday, March 4, 2008 - 00:00
More accusations of cross-border meddling intensified diplomatic tensions Monday between Colombia and its neighbors Ecuador and Venezuela, as other Latin American leaders tried to defuse a crisis
Thursday, February 14, 2008 - 00:00
The energy shortage is considered by many to be an unhappy consequence of the celebrated economic policies of her husband and predecessor, Nestor Kirchner
Friday, January 25, 2008 - 00:00
In three Andean countries -- Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela -- political leaders recently have pursued constitutional rewrites that would make it more difficult for future administrations to reverse the policies they instituted
Wednesday, December 12, 2007 - 00:00
Former president Alberto Fujimori was sentenced to six years in prison Tuesday for ordering an illegal search during the final days of his rule, as a judge ruled on the first in a series of prosecutions
Friday, December 7, 2007 - 00:00
Facing a bitter political crisis over plans to rewrite Bolivia's constitution, President Evo Morales called Wednesday night for a national referendum
Friday, December 7, 2007 - 00:00
Morales said Thursday that he delivered a bill to the Bolivian Congress calling for a series of popular votes -- one to decide whether he will remain president, and others to determine the fates of each of the country's nine governors
Tuesday, November 27, 2007 - 00:00
Violent protests over an attempt to rewrite Bolivia's constitution have led to the deaths of four people in recent days