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A former Bolivian cabinet member dubbed the ''minister of cocaine'' was deported to his native country late Wednesday after serving almost 20 years in federal prison for conspiring to smuggle cocaine into South Florida.
The verbal fireworks began soon after the arrival here of interim Honduran President Roberto Micheletti and a delegation of 14 ex-politicians and former justices for talks with ousted President Manuel Zelaya aimed at defusing the Central American nation's 2-week-old political crisis.
One week after her party suffered a sweeping defeat in national congressional elections, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner of Argentina has shaken up her government, replacing her cabinet chief and economy minister but leaving in place two powerful ministers from her inner circle, a sign that her administration may preserve much of its direction in policy.
Leaders of the exclusive club of eight industrialized nations open up their forum Thursday to the five fastest developing market economies - Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa - tacit admission that their leadership alone is not enough to fix the world's major problems.
The head of a Venezuelan opposition television network made a stop in Miami after meeting with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who expressed support for Globovision's stance against Hugo Chávez's government.
As mediation talks between Honduras' dueling presidents start in Costa Rica, some wonder whether there will be room for dialogue amid the ultimatums and entrenched positions.
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe says he will allow an opposition senator to accompany the release of hosta...
The mayor of Venezuela's capital ended a hunger strike Wednesday after the head of the Organization of Amer...
More than 600 pieces of Air France Flight 447 are being sent from Brazil to France by ship to be studied fu...
Peru's government doesn't provide adequate care for pregnant women in the impoverished highlands and jungle...
Talks between the ousted and de facto Honduran leaders, mediated by a Nobel Peace Prize-winning president, ...
Former President Bill Clinton, now the special envoy to Haiti, got a firsthand look at Gonaives, which was ...
A budding alliance between Venezuela's Hugo Chávez and several small, English-speaking island nation...
Honduras' Manuel Zelaya is expected to meet with U.S. officials in Washington to find another way to reclai...
Once the dust settles from the military coup in Honduras, there's likely to be negotiations between the int...
Mexico's long-dominant Institutional Revolutionary Party promised Monday it has learned from the past and c...
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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 illegal battery smelter so contaminated children here that some of them have been found with what are s...
In the wake of rising food prices, Haiti turns to agriculture production that experts say requires resource...
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When Micheline Leon was diagnosed with HIV, her parents told her they would fit her for a coffin.
Cash-strapped Caribbean leaders plan to lobby international financial institutions for assistance.
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British officials looking into corruption allegations in the Turks and Caicos Islands have called for a cri...
President Hugo Chavez's government is imposing new regulations on cable television while revoking the licen...
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The head of a Venezuelan opposition television network made a stop in Miami after meeting with Secretary of...
The mayor of Venezuela's capital ended a hunger strike Wednesday after the head of the Organization of Amer...
El gobierno del presidente Hugo Chávez deploró el miércoles una declaración de ...
Durante una reunión con El Nuevo Herald y The Miami Herald, Ravell y el periodista Leopoldo Castillo...
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A budding alliance between Venezuela's Hugo Chávez and several small, English-speaking island nation...
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Gobernantes caribeños temen que el mandatario venezolano socave décadas de unir a la comunida...
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe says he will allow an opposition senator to accompany the release of hosta...
During the Colombia Free Trade Agreement discussions in the White House and Congress, a major point has bee...
A year after Colombian military agents disguised as international aid workers helicoptered Ingrid Betancour...
An Ecuadorean judge has issued an arrest order for a former Colombian defense minister in connection with a...
President Barack Obama said Monday he is confident the U.S. and Colombia can ultimately reach a deal on a s...
A survivor's account sheds light on the 'false positive' executions that have brought grief to thousands of...
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, the oldest and strongest terrorist group in North or South Amer...
Hit by increased desertions and military attacks, Colombia's leftist insurgency is working to reinvent itself.
An alleged rebel turned over to Colombia by Mexico held a key role promoting his guerrilla group internatio...
Colombia's President Alvaro Uribe says it would be ''inappropriate'' for him to seek a third consecutive te...
Colombia's conservative President Alvaro Uribe never had much in common with leftist President Hugo Ch&aacu...
The best way to defeat deposed president Manuel Zelaya lies in allowing his return.
During the Colombia Free Trade Agreement discussions in the White House and Congress, a major point has bee...
On June 24, five Cuban dissidents received the annual Democracy Award given by the National Endowment for D...
The United States, the OAS, the European Union, Hugo Chávez, Fidel Castro -- most of all, Chá...
The Obama administration has made an excellent first step to eliminate some restrictions on travel to the i...
Bill Clinton and George W. Bush recently had a face-to-face debate in Canada to discuss current affairs. Th...
The Obama administration has made an excellent first step to eliminate some restrictions on travel to Cuba,...
Why would someone betray his country? More specifically, why would an American citizen from a distinguished...
Speaking recently in France about the North Korean nuclear crisis, President Barack Obama faced up to the f...
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Honduras' new leadership ignores OAS deadline to restore Manuel Zelaya, and threatens to arrest him if he r...
When he was finally caught, Rosalio Reta told detectives here that he had felt a thrill each time he killed...
Mexican drug lord Joaquín Guzmán Loera has become a narco folk hero, and each year that Mexico is unable to...
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Yuri Melini was shot seven times by an assailant nine months ago. The outspoken champion of environmental c...
After declaring independence from the rest of Nicaragua in April, a group of indigenous activists from the ...
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