http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2009 MiamiHerald.com Latin America on the Web 60 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:46:47 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/1142483.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/1142483.html Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:35 EDT To many poor Hondurans, deposed president Manuel "Mel" Zelaya was a trailblazing ally who scrapped school tuitions, raised the minimum wage and took on big business. http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/1142398.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/1142398.html Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:26 EDT Allen Andersson made a bundle, then made things happen -- for a while -- in Honduras http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/1129064.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/1129064.html Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:43 EDT Bayonet-wielding soldiers are not the biggest threat to democracy in Latin America, where more than a dozen presidents have been removed prematurely since 1990. In recent years, a crop of elected, authoritarian-minded leaders has packed courts with supporters, held dubious elections and curtailed press freedoms. Legislatures have also pushed the boundaries of democratic order, giving legal cover to "civilian coups" in which protest groups have forced the ouster of presidents. http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/1128653.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/1128653.html Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:11 EDT Honduras' new leadership ignores OAS deadline to restore Manuel Zelaya, and threatens to arrest him if he returns. The coup has brought deep divisions in Honduras to the fore. http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/1119427.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/1119427.html Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:53 EDT When he was finally caught, Rosalio Reta told detectives here that he had felt a thrill each time he killed. It was like being Superman or James Bond, he said. “I like what I do,” he told the police in a videotaped confession. “I don’t deny it.” http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/1101381.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/1101381.html Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:11 EDT Mexican drug lord Joaquín Guzmán Loera has become a narco folk hero, and each year that Mexico is unable to catch "El Chapo" his legend grows. http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/1099434.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/1099434.html Tue, 16 Jun 2009 09:45 EDT Remittances sent home by Mexicans in the United States are the second-largest source of legal foreign revenue in the country. Last year, according to the Bank of Mexico, migrants sent home $25 billion. But the remittances have been falling steadily since the end of 2007, when construction, manufacturing and service industries began to sputter. These sectors employ a disproportionate percent of the almost 12 million Mexicans living in the United States, most of them illegally. http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/1099427.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/1099427.html Tue, 16 Jun 2009 09:40 EDT Assailants have been targeting addicts in Ciudad Juarez for the past year. In August, eight men were killed and five wounded by unknown attackers as they gathered for prayer at a treatment facility in this border city. Last week, a man was executed at a third rehabilitation center. http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/1097180.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/1097180.html Sun, 14 Jun 2009 17:54 EDT Since Mexican President Felipe Calderon sent troops into his home state of Michoacan in 2006 to fight drug traffickers, U.S. and Mexican officials have described a growing free-for-all between warring cartels in the state where 10 mayors were recently detained and are being investigated for alleged ties to drug traffickers. http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/1097171.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/1097171.html Sun, 14 Jun 2009 17:45 EDT The reminders of Nuevo Laredo’s violent days still mar its streets — bullet holes and the impacts of grenades where drug traffickers once flaunted their power, boarded-up buildings of merchants who fled the lawlessness, and until they were leveled by the government a few weeks ago, garish roadside shrines to Santa Muerte, the saint of death. http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/1094019.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/1094019.html Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:06 EDT In recent weeks, officials in Venezuela -- where the government controls a media apparatus devoted to glowing coverage of the president -- have appeared increasingly obsessed with Globovision, the 24-hour, all-news station. http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/1092170.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/1092170.html Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:22 EDT Yuri Melini was shot seven times by an assailant nine months ago. The outspoken champion of environmental causes has made many enemies, and gained recognition too. http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/1090488.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/1090488.html Wed, 10 Jun 2009 08:36 EDT After declaring independence from the rest of Nicaragua in April, a group of indigenous activists from the Mosquito Coast readied a grand celebration to commemorate the occasion. Their feast would be ruined, however, when the regional government sent in the police to seize the main course. http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/1088766.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/1088766.html Tue, 09 Jun 2009 07:54 EDT Cliff divers, all-night discos, towering hotels on the sand — that is one side of Acapulco. But a four-hour gun battle over the weekend between soldiers and suspected drug traffickers made clear that the popular beach resort has a dark side and that no part of Mexico may be completely immune from the continuing drug war. http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/1088764.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/1088764.html Tue, 09 Jun 2009 07:50 EDT Shows started fads in the past -- now they're linked to lower fertility and higher divorce rates http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/1087209.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/1087209.html Mon, 08 Jun 2009 08:05 EDT When anti-narcotics agents first heard that drug cartels were building an armada of submarines to transport cocaine, they thought it was a joke. Now U.S. law enforcement officials say that more than a third of the cocaine smuggled into the United States from Colombia travels in submersibles. http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/1082935.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/1082935.html Fri, 05 Jun 2009 08:11 EDT With trade a hard sell in Washington these days, it's time for the White House to actively support a free-trade agreement with Panama. http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/1082905.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/1082905.html Fri, 05 Jun 2009 07:52 EDT For a few hours this week, the Organization of American States appeared about to splinter: Leftist Latin American governments squared off against the United States over whether Cuba should be allowed to rejoin the main forum for political cooperation in the hemisphere. http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/1080994.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/1080994.html Thu, 04 Jun 2009 07:33 EDT Mexican drug gangs under pressure at home are moving operations to Guatemala, whose proximity, weak law enforcement and deep-rooted corruption provide fertile ground, officials and analysts say. http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/1077413.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/1077413.html Tue, 02 Jun 2009 08:32 EDT The claws of collusion dig deep in Mexico these days. Senators, governors, mayors and police chiefs have been arrested or accused of serving as pawns and protectors of vicious drug cartels.