http://www.miamiherald.com/1373/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/1373/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2009 MiamiHerald.com This Week in the Americas (stories) 60 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:14:44 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/1373/story/1304364.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1373/story/1304364.html Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:42 EDT Two new massacres in Venezuelan territory could raise the number of Colombians killed in recent weeks in Venezuela to at least 20, according to officials in both countries. http://www.miamiherald.com/1373/story/1303480.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1373/story/1303480.html Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:41 EDT Charles Shapiro, the senior advisor for economic initiatives in the State Department's Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, is slated to be among the dozens of speakers at a three-day conference starting Wednesday in Miami Beach on Cuba and other international issues. http://www.miamiherald.com/1373/story/1300821.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1373/story/1300821.html Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:41 EDT Juanita Castro was recruited by the CIA in 1961 through her friend Virginia Leitao de Cunha, wife of the Brazilian ambassador in Havana, but refused to conspire in any attempts on the lives of her brothers Fidel and Raúl Castro http://www.miamiherald.com/1373/story/1301613.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1373/story/1301613.html Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:41 EDT With Haiti poised to enjoy the economic benefits of long-elusive stability, foreign diplomats are scrambling behind the scenes to keep it all from unraveling as several lawmakers demand the ouster of the country's prime minister. http://www.miamiherald.com/1373/story/1300032.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1373/story/1300032.html Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:40 EDT Juanita Castro, sister of Cuban rulers Fidel and Raúl Castro, cooperated with the CIA in the 1960s -- a time when the U.S. agency was plotting to assassinate Fidel and overthrow his revolution -- according to an exclusive Univisión-Noticias 23 report on her newly published book. http://www.miamiherald.com/1373/story/1297734.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1373/story/1297734.html Sat, 24 Oct 2009 18:40 EDT Having spent a comfortable 30 years in the United States, Nicole Muller Cesar decided to move back to her native Haiti a decade ago.<p/> She had been working as a social worker and therapist in Boston and remained a fixture in Haitian activist circles. But the low-level political instability in the late 1990s in Haiti -- and the children who suffered from it -- compelled her to move back and launch her own group to fight for abused and abandoned young people. http://www.miamiherald.com/1373/story/1290612.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1373/story/1290612.html Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:24 EDT At first glance, the childlike strokes and bright colors of the paintings of the Bogotá Museum of Modern Art's latest exhibit suggest bucolic scenes of Colombia's countryside: Small, colorful figures fill town squares and farms lie in the shadow of towering mountains or by fast-running rivers. http://www.miamiherald.com/1373/story/1292282.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1373/story/1292282.html Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:23 EDT Human rights defenders in Colombia are under constant attack for their work, facing murder, death threats, illegal surveillance, arbitrary detentions and prosecutions, activists told a congressional panel in Washington on Tuesday. http://www.miamiherald.com/1373/story/1288048.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1373/story/1288048.html Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:22 EDT Wendy Elizabeth Avila died from complications of asthma after being doused with tear gas at a rally supporting ousted President Manuel Zelaya.<p/> http://www.miamiherald.com/1373/story/1285246.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1373/story/1285246.html Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:21 EDT The rainy season has watered crops in Guatemala, but relief workers and food experts say the rainfall has done little to help the country recover from a major drought that's aggravated malnutrition rates and already claimed dozens of lives this year. http://www.miamiherald.com/1373/story/1283494.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1373/story/1283494.html Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:21 EDT Cuba recently gave a top State Department official a long-blocked permission to visit dual U.S.-Cuban citizens jailed on the island -- but it did not accept a U.S. offer to relax travel restrictions on each other's diplomats, El Nuevo Herald has confirmed. http://www.miamiherald.com/1373/story/1281788.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1373/story/1281788.html Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:20 EDT Cuba's workplace cafeterias are closing, President Raúl Castro keeps saying the well-off shouldn't get the same subsidies as the poor, and now there are rumblings that one of the stalwart vestiges of the revolution -- the ration booklet -- has outlived its usefulness. http://www.miamiherald.com/1373/story/1279547.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1373/story/1279547.html Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:19 EDT A Cuban blogger who has become an international sensation for offering frank criticism of her country's communist system said she was denied government permission Monday to travel to New York to receive a top journalism prize. http://www.miamiherald.com/1373/story/1279554.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1373/story/1279554.html Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:18 EDT The slumping global economy is having a stimulus effect on Costa Rica's famous sex-tourism industry, as a growing number of unemployed women -- from Colombia to the Dominican Republic -- flock to San José to seek a living in the world's oldest profession. http://www.miamiherald.com/1373/story/1279295.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1373/story/1279295.html Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:02 EDT A powerful campaign to allow all Americans to travel to Cuba is rumbling through Congress, with both backers and opponents predicting eventual victory and a Cuban-American Senator holding a key vote. http://www.miamiherald.com/1373/story/1279555.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1373/story/1279555.html Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:18 EDT Investigators in Curacao are asking the public for help solving the disappearance of an American diplomat whose bloodied clothes were found last month on one of the Caribbean island's beaches. http://www.miamiherald.com/1373/story/1275157.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1373/story/1275157.html Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:16 EDT A controversial media reform bill, set to be debated in the Argentine Senate on Friday, pits two powerful forces against each other -- President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and the country's largest media conglomerate. http://www.miamiherald.com/1373/story/1273683.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1373/story/1273683.html Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:15 EDT Diplomats pushed the two sides of the Honduran political conflict into direct talks for the first time in nearly three months, but left the country Thursday with no commitment from the coup-installed government to reinstate ousted President Manuel Zelaya. http://www.miamiherald.com/1373/story/1270203.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1373/story/1270203.html Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:14 EDT A trio of South Florida Republican lawmakers said Tuesday that the remedy to the post-coup woes in Honduras lies in U.S. support of next month's scheduled elections. http://www.miamiherald.com/1373/story/1264547.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1373/story/1264547.html Sun, 04 Oct 2009 20:36 EDT Some children check in. Others don't get to.<p/> Those who make it to the Nicolasa Cruz hospital do so because a parent cobbled together enough money. Others leave because the cash ran out. And others avoid the general hospital altogether because their parents can't afford the pennies it takes to travel here.