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The town of Trujillo, associated for years with Colombia's violence, is also a symbol of the country's attempt to acknowledge victims and search for truth and justice.
Outside the gaily painted gates of the Elena Garro Federal Kindergarten, the grown-ups are afraid. If daily drug-related killings haven't sown enough alarm in this gritty border city, parents now confront written messages left near several schools warning of unspecified harm unless teachers hand over their annual year-end bonuses.
On Nov. 23, Hugo Chávez won 75 percent of the posts contested in local, regional and state elections. His candidates rallied 5.4 million votes nationwide against the opposition's 4.4 million. Chavistas prevailed in 17 of the 22 gubernatorial races in play. So, yes, Chávez came out the winner 10 days ago.
Russia said Wednesday it is sending a warship through the Panama Canal for the first time since World War II, a short journey loaded with symbolic weight: the destroyer will dock at a former U.S. naval base, showcasing Russia's growing influence in the region.
The Colombian government insists that paramilitary gangs are extinct. Try telling that to Antonio Domingo, a poor Afro-Colombian who was rousted from his home in the dead of night in August and told to leave town or be killed.
Stepped-up patrols, new cameras and a 670-mile border fence have slashed the number of crossing attempts from Mexico
A survey of Cuban Americans in Miami-Dade showed that the majority favor a lifting of the trade embargo.
Mexican border towns like Sasabe are fading as the flow of migrants into the U.S. continues to slow.
Caribbean nations are feeling the sting of the U.S. recession but so far are weathering the storm, accordin...
Hugo Chávez wants to remain president of Venezuela for life, and this week he began campaigning for ...
The seven girls posed, preened and smiled with all the energy of Miss Universe contestants, but this was no...
Venezuelan prosecutors say they have summoned a leading opponent of President Hugo Chavez for arraignment o...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez could hardly contain his enthusiasm as Russian President Dmitry Med...
The Miami Herald's coverage of the 2008 Americas Conference, which drew hundreds of participants from the h...
For generations, Vodou practitioners in rural Haiti have sworn by the mystic qualities of Jatropha, an indi...
The titles of her songs speak volumes: Wicked Men, Low Blow, Pure Pain and Hypocrite. Then there's her mega...
With oil enriching Venezuela's coffers, President Hugo Chávez is lavishing billions on other countries, boo...
The Cuban government has replaced 95 percent of the refrigerators in homes on the island with "more efficie...
Vladimir Putin says he sees no need for Russia to build military bases in Cuba or Venezuela.
A survey of Cuban Americans in Miami-Dade showed that the majority favor a lifting of the trade embargo.
Las autoridades policiales advirtieron el miércoles a la bloguera cubana Yoani Sánchez que to...
"It all began with the cutting of the ceiba," recalls Isbel Díaz, founder of the project "El Guardabosques"...
Barack Obama will be the first American president in nearly 50 years to have a relatively free hand in deci...
The Jamaican government will turn to the World Bank and other multilateral lenders to close a $250 million ...
Caribbean nations are feeling the sting of the U.S. recession but so far are weathering the storm, accordin...
Small and medium-sized businesses in the Caribbean looking for help on how to better manage their enterpris...
Canada's governor general, a largely ceremonial position, could decide the fate of Prime Minister Stephen H...
Prime Minister Denzil Douglas says he is alarmed by rising violent crime in St. Kitts and Nevis. He is call...
Guyana's president has pardoned a former opposition legislator who had been accused of treason. Philip Byno...
Vladimir Putin says he sees no need for Russia to build military bases in Cuba or Venezuela.
Caracas' new mayor, a leading opponent of President Hugo Chavez, says he wants to battle crime, trash and p...
On Nov. 23, Hugo Chávez won 75 percent of the posts contested in local, regional and state elections...
BP, Chevron, and Consorcio Ruso are among the 19 companies who may bid on Orinoco Belt oil blocks, Venezuel...
Hugo Chávez wants to remain president of Venezuela for life, and this week he began campaigning for ...
An opposition leader says a police investigation into alleged ties between members of his party and Colombi...
This sweltering market town on Venezuela's southwestern frontier has its own mayor, council and police forc...
Future trade agreements -- including yet-to-be-approved pacts with Colombia, Panama and South Korea -- will...
Aerial spraying is still the preferred method of coca eradication in Colombia, but the use of manual labore...
Obama, Democrats should support deal with close ally
Below are excerpts from Amnesty International's 2008 report on the state of human rights in Colombia. In Co...
A new poll shows that, amazingly, Latin Americans are much happier with their countries' public education s...
If you want to know how President-elect Barack Obama's transition team views the world, here's a highly uns...
ANDRES OPPENHEIMER aoppenheimer@MiamiHerald.com Both narcissist-Leninist President Hugo Chávez and t...
Anti-Americanism around the world will diminish in coming years, and not just because President George W. B...
If you think that recent U.S. economic infatuation with Asia is a product of the pre-crisis U.S. consumptio...
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador -- One of the first issues President-elect Barack Obama's transition team will lo...
The big question in Washington's Latin American diplomatic circles is who will be the Obama administration'...
"Nyet! Nyet!" That's what a Russian bodyguard told a McClatchy news reporter when the latter asked for comm...
Venezuela’s president, Hugo Chávez, is not feeling the love. Collapsing oil prices have sharply curtailed h...
The Bush administration is leaving behind so much turmoil and resentment around the world that President-el...
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's four-nation jaunt through Latin America, which started at an internatio...
When President Barack Obama takes office on Jan. 20, he will confront tough choices about how best to alloc...
Evo Morales, the charismatic but controversial president of Bolivia, this week came to Washington for the f...
El periodista disidente Ricardo González Alfonso, preso desde 2003, expresó su agradecimiento...
Gobierno rechazó un recurso administrativo en el que una colonia menonita intentó probar su d...
La Procuraduría General el jueves destituyó e inhabilitó para ejercer cargos pú...
La principal organización indígena de Ecuador rechazó el jueves la presencia de tres p...
Un juez federal determinó el jueves que el senador Jorge de Castro Font violó las reglas de l...
Uno de los últimos viajes al exterior de la actual secretaria de Estado estadounidense, Condoleezza ...
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