Reuters
Thursday, October 4, 2007 - 00:00
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, a Montana Democrat, said in remarks to a trade group he expected his committee to formally approve the Peru agreement
Thursday, October 4, 2007 - 00:00
The Pentagon is looking for air bases in South America to use for counter-narcotics operations, but no proposals have been made yet to any country, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said
Thursday, October 4, 2007 - 00:00
The United States is proposing to spend more than $1 billion over two years to train and equip Mexican soldiers and police to fight drug cartels, an official said
Thursday, October 4, 2007 - 00:00
The U.S. government on Tuesday showed its best results in the war against drugs in 20 years but said it has yet to prove it can significantly reduce cocaine and other narcotics distribution over the long term
Tuesday, October 2, 2007 - 00:00
President Rafael Correa's party won an overwhelming majority of seats in yesterday's election for a national assembly to rewrite the constitution, four government ministers said
Tuesday, October 2, 2007 - 00:00
Robert Gates began a five-nation tour of Latin America on Tuesday, visiting governments Washington sees as friendly in a region increasingly leaning left
Tuesday, October 2, 2007 - 00:00
Colombian police were tipped off on Monday to the early morning murders of eight cocaine laboratory workers when relatives of the victims showed up at an undertaker
Monday, October 1, 2007 - 00:00
Colombia's urban unemployment dipped to 11.1 percent in August from 12.6 percent in the same month last year, the government's National Statistics Department said
Sunday, September 30, 2007 - 00:00
La economia de Ecuador crecio un 1,38 por ciento en el segundo trimestre del 2007 frente a la expansion de un 4,05 por ciento registrada en el mismo lapso del ano anterior
Saturday, September 29, 2007 - 00:00
With a month to go before ballots are cast, the government says there have been 69 political murders in this campaign season, including 27 candidates, 13 town council members, five campaign volunteers and a campaign manager