THE OPPENHEIMER REPORT

Obama shines, results lag at regional summit

President Barack Obama scored high marks in his first meeting with Latin American and Caribbean leaders but...

Obama meets Central American leaders

President Barack Obama, beginning his final day of the Fifth Summit of the Americas, told Central American ...

President Barack Obama lauds Cuba offer to discuss thorny issues

Cuban leader Raúl Castro's recent offer to discuss all issues -- including the fate of political pri...

ANALYSIS

Chávez offers soothing words and a wry gift to Obama at summit

Tensions between the United States and Venezuela eased at the Summit of the Americas -- at least momentarily.

THE OPPENHEIMER REPORT

Obama may be just testing Cuba -- and that's OK

There was a lot of talk about a new chapter in U.S-Cuban relations at the 34-country Summit of the Americas...

Bolivia's Evo Morales won't sign declaration unless revised

Bolivian President Evo Morales on Saturday became the second leader to publicly denounce the final declarat...

Venezuela's Hugo Chávez gives Obama a book

The first full day of the Summit of the Americas began with a gift during President Barack Obama's Saturday...

U.N. chief calls for collective solutions to common problems

In order to dig out of the global economic crisis and ensure peace and security in the future, nations must...

VENEZUELA RELATIONS

Obama, Chávez shake as Summit of the Americas begins

Venezuela said an Obama-Chávez handshake was a historic first step to better relations.

THE OPPENHEIMER REPORT

Obama most popular leader of the Americas

What a difference! At the last 34-country Summit of the Americas in 2005, former President George W. Bush w...

Hugo Chavez says Venezuela-U.S. relations will improve

Closer relations between Venezuela and the United States are no doubt coming soon, President Hugo Chá...

TRINIDAD EXPRESS

Obama: Don't blame America

President Barack Obama offered a spirit of cooperation to America's hemispheric neighbours yesterday, liste...

TRINIDAD EXPRESS

Canada: Embargo up to US, Cuba

Although Canada feels that the US trade embargo against Cuba is not the way to go, its removal is ultimatel...

TRINIDAD EXPRESS

Standoff with cops boosts protest

Riot police inadvertently ensured the success of an anti-summit event in St James Saturday afternoon. After...

TR

Manning sets the tone for Summit

Prime Minister Patrick Manning last night set the tone for the Fifth Summit of the Americas, when he called...

TRINIDAD EXPRESS

Obama to invest $30m to fight regional crime

In a 16-minute address punctuated by applause, United States President Barack Obama called on leaders of th...

TRINIDAD EXPRESS

Chavez to Obama: Let's be friends

"I want to be your friend," tough-talking Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez told US President Barack Obama y...

TRINIDAD EXPRESS

Man gets $100,000 bail for placard protest

An environmentalist was yesterday placed on $100,000 bail after he was charged with erecting placards prote...

TRINIDAD EXPRESS

Media mob Chavez

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez proved to be a highlight during the arrivals of the Heads of State/Governm...

TRINIDAD EXPRESS

Waiting in vain for Obama

Disappointment marked many faces of fans who, having for hours awaited the arrival of US President Barack O...

U.S.-CUBA RELATIONS

Raúl Castro offers swap of political prisoners for Cuban Five

A proposal by Raúl Castro would send Cuban political prisoners and their families to Miami if the Wh...

TRINIDAD EXPRESS

Michelle opts out of Summit

Many people were disappointed yesterday as news spread that US First Lady Michelle Obama would not be comin...

CUBA | IMMIGRATION

Migration talks with Cuba to begin Tuesday in New York

Several members of Congress said the U.S. and Cuba will revive immigration negotiations on Tuesday in New Y...

More women migrating to U.S.

More and more women -- many of them from Latin America -- are migrating to the United States, marking a dep...

Honduras names foreign affairs minister

Honduran Interim President Roberto Micheletti continued to shore up his cabinet Monday, swearing in the nat...

THE WASHINGTON POST

Iran's invisible Nicaragua embassy

For months, the reports percolated in Washington and other capitals. Iran was constructing a major beachhea...

LOS ANGELES TIMES

Tensions linger between Colombia and Ecuador

Ecuador today will begin imposing stiff tariffs on hundreds of Colombian imports, the latest round in a fes...

Honduras lifts curfew 2 weeks after military coup

Hondurans enjoyed their first night of unfettered freedom in two weeks after the interim government lifted ...

Venezuelan reporters detained in Honduras

Venezuelan reporters -- seen as generating favorable coverage of Honduras' ousted president Manuel Zelaya -...

Obama administration took lead in Honduras crisis only after OAS failed

The day after soldiers raided Honduran President Manuel Zelaya's house and bundled him, still in his pajama...

CENTRAL AMERICA | DIPLOMACY

Honduras crisis mediator is at home as peacemaker

Costa Rica's president is bringing persistence, a Nobel Peace Prize and a passion for demilitarization to t...

Honduras' political conflict pushes youth activism

Sitting next to her younger brother's white casket on the back of a pick up truck, an angry Rebeca Murillo ...

LOS ANGELES TIMES

Honduras had a new kind of coup

The upheaval in Honduras epitomizes a new kind of Latin American struggle, in which elected leftist leaders...

CUBA

Another Spanish priest found dead in Cuba

A second Spanish priest in five months has been found dead near the capital, Cuba's Roman Catholic Church s...

CUBA | IMMIGRATION

Migration talks with Cuba to begin Tuesday in New York

Several members of Congress said the U.S. and Cuba will revive immigration negotiations on Tuesday in New Y...

Migration talks with Cuba to begin Tuesday in New York

The Obama administration will resume long-suspended migration talks with Cuba Tuesday, members of Congress ...

AP

AP names new bureau chief in Havana

Paul Haven has been appointed The Associated Press chief of bureau in Havana, Cuba, following three years...

REUTERS

Cuban offshore oil drilling plans postponed again

Cuba and a consortium of foreign oil companies have once again postponed plans to drill for oil in the isla...

INTERFAX

29,000 Cubans are Masons

About 29 thousands Cubans are members of more than 300 Masonic lodges in various cities of the country and ...

Estimate: Cuba owes Venezuela $4.6 billion for oil (Spanish)

Sudden deaths of 11 Cuban cancer patients called medical negligence

GUANTANAMO NAVY BASE

Prelate worships across an old Cuban divide

The Catholic archbishop for U.S. armed forces made a pilgrimage of peace from the U.S. Navy base at Guant&a...

AID TO CUBA

Despite Cuba embargo, relief finds a way

A humanitarian organization that illegally delivers aid to Cuba will do so again.

Mystery surrounds missing Cuban pitcher

A Cuban pitcher considered by many baseball scouts to be the No. 1 left-handed prospect in the world left h...

Washington

Opositores venezolanos se reunirán con Insulza

A la reunión asistirán el actual alcalde caraqueño, Antonio Ledezma, y los gobernadore...

Venezuela: agentes de seguridad borran fotos a reportero

Un fotógrafo estadounidense trabajando para el diario New York Times fue detenido brevemente por age...

American journalist briefly detained in Venezuela

An American photographer working for The New York Times was briefly detained by agents from the security de...

Chavez opponents to meet with OAS chief

Venezuelan opposition leaders said Monday that they will meet with the secretary-general of the Organizatio...

THE WASHINGTON POST

Double standards on Latin America

As the Obama administration and a host of Latin American governments campaigned to reverse the coup in Hond...

CARACAS

Chávez pide a Obama retirar tropas de Honduras

CARACAS

Piden a Chávez no meterse en Guatemala

Los líderes del sector empresarial de Guatemala pidieron a los presidentes de Venezuela y Bolivia ''...

THE AMERICAS

Venezuelan broadcasters feel the heat

Hugo Chávez's government is threatening action against radio and TV stations that broadcast 'illegal...

Colom desmiente a Chávez

El presidente de Guatemala, Alvaro Colom, descartó que haya intentos de golpe de Estado en su pa&iac...

Chávez arrecia ofensiva contra medios privados

Venezuela announces new rules affecting cable TV

President Hugo Chavez's government is imposing new regulations on cable television while revoking the licen...