FEDERAL COURT

Venezuelan bribery stars in trial over suitcase of cash

A federal trial concerning a mysterious suitcase full of cash has brought revelations about the financial w...

AMERICAS CONFERENCE

President Préval: Haiti needs help, not U.S. deportees

McCAIN ONCE HAD BRAZILIAN GIRLFRIEND

Sen. John McCain has had a decades-long history of involvement in Latin America -- including a romance 50 y...

THE CARIBBEAN

Caribbean Basin facing tough war against drug smuggling

Trapped between the powerful narcotics cartels and drug-consuming nations, the Caribbean and Central Americ...

THE NEW YORK TIMES

After U.S. financial crisis, uncertainty from Latam

In only a few days, Latin American leaders have gone from not caring to fear over the U.S. financial crisis...

TICO TIMES

Another protest turns violent in Nicaragua

Another attempt at civil protest ended in violence Thursday when a group of government supporters clashed w...

THE WASHNGTON POST

On Brazil beaches, a perplexing inrush of penguins

Not everyone in Rio de Janeiro has taken to the penguins quite the way Cecilia Breves has, but even for her...

CHAVEZ'S GRAND CRUSADE | PART 1 OF 4

Latin America's Money Man

With oil enriching Venezuela's coffers, President Hugo Chávez is lavishing billions on other countries, boo...

CHAVEZ'S GRAND CRUSADE | PART 2 OF 4

PART II | Chávez rides on tide of Venezuelan oil, but will it ebb soon?

What happens to Venezuela's state oil company will ripple through Latin America and South Florida -- and co...

CHAVEZ'S GRAND CRUSADE | PART 3 OF 4

PART III | Nicaraguans wary of Chávez's largess

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has promised billions in aid to Nicaragua, but some question whethe...

CHAVEZ'S GRAND CRUSADE | PART 4 OF 4

PART IV | Chávez works on U.S. image

In an apparent effort to directly reach Americans, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez is helping the p...

POISONED LIVES

Pollution sickens children in Dominican Republic

The illegal battery smelter so contaminated children here that some of them have been found with what are s...

REUTERS

Credit crunch another hurricane for Cuba

The global financial crisis has dealt another blow to Cuba, already reeling from two powerful hurricanes an...

VNA

Cuba to become oil exporter, says Fidel Castro

Cuban former President Fidel Castro has said that Cuba might become an oil exporter in a relatively short p...

One town's experiment gives Cuban peso value

A communist experiment is letting average government workers in this eastern city enjoy a few things only f...

EFE

Cuban dissidents call for small businesses

REUTERS

Cuba faces food shortages after hurricanes

Cuban markets offered a dwindling selection of food and a growing expanse of empty shelves on Wednesday as ...

STATE DEPARTMENT

Washington to let 2 Cuban journalists return to U.S.

Two Cuban journalists who had been denied entry visas to the United States will be allowed back into the co...

EFE

Cupboard bare at Cuban markets after price freeze

Havana's farmers markets reacted Tuesday with empty shelves, stalls without any supplies, and predictions t...

Guyana gov't rejects worry over Venezuelan weapons

Guyana's government is dismissing the main opposition party's concern about Venezuela strengthening its mil...

Guyana worried by new Venezuelan weaponry

Guyana's opposition party worries about Russian weapons going to neighboring Venezuela and officials say th...

Jamaica to create fish sanctuaries, boost industry

Jamaica's agriculture ministry is creating eight fish sanctuaries to help protect endangered species and bo...

Grenada probes Hamilton land deal

A land deal involving Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton is under investigation on the Caribbean island of G...

CLOSING DAY

Préval pleads for a halt in deportations of storm-battered Haitians

LITTLE HAITI

Haitian official recalls hardship created by barrage of storms

An aide to Haiti's prime minister met with community members to talk about what the island is doing to cope...

Virgin Islands debate ban on same-sex marriages

A local lawmaker is vowing to keep pushing for a same-sex marriage ban that was excluded from a draft of th...

Guyana gov't rejects worry over Venezuelan weapons

Guyana's government is dismissing the main opposition party's concern about Venezuela strengthening its mil...

Venezuela bureaucrats told to trim high living

Bureaucrats in oil-rich Venezuela can look forward to fewer expensive SUVs, top-of-the-line mobile telephon...

Chavez will swap gas-guzzlers for clean cars

Give up your gas-guzzler and get a free car. That's President Hugo Chavez's offer to Venezuelans.

Guyana worried by new Venezuelan weaponry

Guyana's opposition party worries about Russian weapons going to neighboring Venezuela and officials say th...

FEDERAL COURT

Venezuelan bribery stars in trial over suitcase of cash

A federal trial concerning a mysterious suitcase full of cash has brought revelations about the financial w...

THE NEW YORK TIMES

Venezuela bars Hugo Chávez critic from leaving

Former defense minister detained in Venezuela

U.S. slaps sanctions on Colombian rebel envoys

The United States on Tuesday slapped sanctions on members of Colombia's main rebel group who represent the ...

COLOMBIA

Colombian government urged to end 'extra-judicial' executions

The U.N. High Commission for Human Rights has asked the Colombian government and its military to ''clarify ...

Venezuelan leftists honor late FARC rebel leader

Venezuelan members of an extreme-leftist social and political organization unveiled a monument to late Colo...

EL NUEVO HERALD

Aparición de 45 jóvenes muertos alarma a Colombia

En menos de una semana ha subido a 45 el número de jóvenes pobres de suburbios del sur de Bogotá y zonas de...

ON THE WEB | COLOMBIA

In Colombia, secret meeting sparks inquiry

Colombia's inspector general's office is investigating a secret meeting at the presidential palace in April...

LOS ANGELES TIMES

Colombia paramilitaries control much of Guajira

The recent killing of Omaira Arismendi was a reminder that even after 31,000 fighters laid down their arms ...

THE WASHINGTON POST

Unearthing secrets of Colombia's long war

A team of forensic anthropologists painstakingly dug up the bodies -- two from the town's decaying mausoleu...

THE OPPENHEIMER REPORT

Hard economic times may just be starting

ANDRES OPPENHEIMER aoppenheimer@MiamiHerald.com Don't be fooled by the universal sigh of relief that was he...

OPPENHEIMER REPORT

Economic stress brings out isolationist feelings in U.S.

Just when the United States desperately needs to open new export markets to address what may become the wor...

THE OPPENHEIMER REPORT

Florida vote may affect U.S.-Cuba policy

Here's one way of anticipating what will be the next U.S. president's policy on Cuba, Venezuela and other a...

THE OPPENHEIMER REPORT

Argentina's VP may be government's biggest critic

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is facing a peculiar challenge -...

THE OPPENHEIMER REPORT

Argentine view of world may be premature

BUENOS AIRES -- When I arrived here in the middle of the U.S. financial crisis last week, I thought I would...

THE OPPENHEIMER REPORT

New Paraguay leader vows to follow moderate line

ASUNCION, Paraguay -- When I interviewed Paraguay's new president, Fernando Lugo -- ''the bishop of the poo...

THE OPPENHEIMER REPORT

Biden, Palin could be bad news for the region

Over the past few months, you may have read in this column that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Ob...

WASHINGTON POST

A Choice for Latin America

WITH U.S. attention fixed elsewhere, a significant part of Latin America continues to march away from the "...

S. Fla. Cuban women could sway state's presidential vote

T his presidential election will rest on young people energized by Barack Obama, moms wowed by Sarah Palin,...

WALL STREET JOURNAL

What we can learn from Chile's financial crisis

You wouldn't know it from all the panicky headlines but the current turmoil on Wall Street is not the world...

COHA

U.S. reaps what it sows in Bolivia

The near breakdown of relations between the United States and Bolivia is a perfect example of the baleful c...

THE MIAMI HERALD

Castros' arrogance gets in the way of help

On the question of post-hurricane aid, the United States and Cuba engaged in shameful posturing. In the end...

THE MIAMI HERALD

Morales, Chávez resort to tired tactics

Presidents Hugo Chávez of Venezuela and Evo Morales of Bolivia see themselves as emblems of a new, resurgen...

THE ECONOMIST

Obama vs McCain on Latin America

Latin America has barely been discussed by the U.S. presidential candidates, Democrat Barack Obama and Repu...

Tormenta tropical Norbert avanza por el Pacífico mexicano

La tormenta tropical Norbert continuaba moviéndose al oeste en el Pacífico mexicano, con vien...

Washington Post pide acción de EEUU en Latinoamérica

Los países latinoamericanos que se están alineando con el líder populista venezolano H...

Detienen a 5 policías tras enfrentamiento en ruinas mexicanas

Cinco policías fueron arrestados el domingo tras los fallecimientos de cuatro lugareños duran...

Incautan 500 kilos de pseudoefedrina en México

Las autoridades incautaron 500 kilos (1.100 libras) de pseudoefedrina el domingo en el aeropuerto de la ciu...

Iniciará V ronda de acuerdo comercial entre UE y CA

Centroamérica y la Unión Europea iniciarán el lunes en esta ciudad la quinta ronda de ...

Recuerdan derrota de Pinochet en plebiscito

La presidenta Michelle Bachelet instó el domingo a la unidad de su coalición de centro-izquie...

Brasil: hombre herido al intentar invadir presidencia

Un hombre resultó herido el domingo cuando intentó invadir la residencia presidencial brasile...