CUBA | HUMAN RIGHTS

Report: Cuba's Raúl Castro as ruthless as Fidel

A report by Human Rights Watch paints Raúl Castro's regime in Cuba as little more than a continuati...

Diario publisher to head press group

Alejandro J. Aguirre, deputy editor and publisher of the Spanish-language Diario Las Américas newspa...

PERU-CHILE RELATIONS

War of words escalating over Peru's spy accusations

Sparring between Chile and Peru intensified Tuesday over spying allegations, which experts say could be att...

Voice of America expands its Latin American audience

Facing a group of presidents loudly critical of Washington, the U.S. government's Voice of America broadca...

HONDURAS ELECTIONS

Honduras' crisis brings South Florida election showdown

Cuban hunger striker reported very ill

Leading Cuban dissident Martha Beatriz Roque is extremely ill due to complications from her diabetes and a ...

Bad weather blamed in blackout for 60M in Brazil

Heavy rain, lightning and strong winds caused blackouts that left nearly a third of Brazilians - 60 million...

U.S. expresses outrage over `assault' on Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez

The U.S. State Department has told Cuba it deplores last week's ``assault'' on blogger Yoani Sánchez...

CUBA

Cuba's blogosphere has developed a sharper edge

Cuba's blogosphere has taken on a decidedly harsher face in recent months, an act of online defiance in the...

HAITI

Growth seen for Haiti, Guyana

Storm-battered Haiti and Guyana are the only Caribbean nations to project economic growth this year.

HONDURAS

Manuel Zelaya's backers: Boycott Honduran election

The failure of a deal to restore Honduras' Manuel Zelaya to power has left his camp with one last hand to p...

Venezuela's Feb. 15 vote to end term limits

Read The Miami Herald's full coverage of the key vote, and its aftermath

The changing face of immigration

In this four-part series, The Miami Herald explores the impact of a changing immigration landscape on illeg...

Haiti children face malnutrition crisis

Read all of The Miami Herald's Staff coverage of the malnutrition crisis faced by Haitian children

Full coverage of Americas Conference

The Miami Herald's coverage of the 2008 Americas Conference, which drew hundreds of participants from the h...

Vodou shrub is alternative fuel

For generations, Vodou practitioners in rural Haiti have sworn by the mystic qualities of Jatropha, an indi...

Paquita la del Barrio sings of the wrongs that men do

The titles of her songs speak volumes: Wicked Men, Low Blow, Pure Pain and Hypocrite. Then there's her mega...

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...

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...

FOOD CRISIS

Crop fields hold hope in Haiti

In the wake of rising food prices, Haiti turns to agriculture production that experts say requires resource...

More Miami Herald coverage

Click on the SPECIAL REPORTS tab on the green MULTIMEDIA line to see more in-depth reports by The Miami Herald

More Miami Herald Cuba coverage

More Miami Herald Cuba coverage

CUBA SPY CASE

U.S. agent for Cuba gets life in prison

Spies for Cuba plead guilty, one gets life in prison

U.S.-CUBA RELATIONS

Blogger in Cuba has Washington's ear

A blogger in Cuba who's not afraid to take on the authorities has gained attention at the White House and o...

Parts of Cuban blogger's essay read aloud in House

Part of a Cuban blogger's essay that advocates lifting the ban on U.S. travel to Cuba was read aloud at a H...

Cuba travel ban under discussion in Washington

U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen blasted efforts to open Cuba up to U.S. tourists Thursday during a House Fore...

CUBA | HUMAN RIGHTS

Report: Cuba's Raúl Castro as ruthless as Fidel

A report by Human Rights Watch paints Raúl Castro's regime in Cuba as little more than a continuati...

ECONOMY

Poll: Cubans `frustrated' over life in Cuba

A poll conducted in Cuba shows residents unhappy with their government and pessimistic about the economy.

Cuban hunger striker reported very ill

Leading Cuban dissident Martha Beatriz Roque is extremely ill due to complications from her diabetes and a ...

U.S. expresses outrage over `assault' on Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez

The U.S. State Department has told Cuba it deplores last week's ``assault'' on blogger Yoani Sánchez...

CUBA

Cuba's blogosphere has developed a sharper edge

Cuba's blogosphere has taken on a decidedly harsher face in recent months, an act of online defiance in the...

TRAVEL TO CUBA

More Democrats oppose lifting Cuban travel ban

The bill to lift the ban on travel to Cuba could be in peril as more Democrats say they are against it.

In Dominica elections, party offers `the only vision'

Caribbean voters living in the tiny island of Dominica will head to the polls on Dec. 18 for general electi...

Miguel H. Díaz is first Hispanic to represent U.S. at Vatican

New Haiti PM promises to focus on investment

Haiti's new prime minister was inaugurated Wednesday and promised to attract more investment and create job...

New prime minister confirmed by lawmakers in Haiti

Lawmakers overwhelmingly gave final approval to Jean-Max Bellerive as Haiti's new prime minister Tuesday, m...

HAITI

Growth seen for Haiti, Guyana

Storm-battered Haiti and Guyana are the only Caribbean nations to project economic growth this year.

HAITI

Haiti prime minister nominee is a political survivor

Jean-Max Bellerive, who has learned to navigate Haiti's tricky political currents while serving in 10 admin...

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

Dominican Republic town blames U.S. firm for birth defects

A small Dominican Republic town plagued by birth defects wants to know if a U.S. power company is to blame.

Irish volunteers come together to build a new community in Haiti

260 Irish volunteers are pouring their sweat and money into building homes for hundreds of impoverished Hai...

REACTION IN SOUTH FLORIDA

In S. Florida, Haitian PM's dismissal met with fears, little surprise

The dismissal of Miche`le Pierre-Louis came as no surprise to many of South Florida's Haitian leaders...

HAITI

Haiti calm after firing of Prime Minister Michèle Pierre-Louis

The streets of Haiti were calm after the firing of Prime Minister Michèle Pierre-Louis and her government, ...

HAITI

Haitian Senate fires prime minister

In a marathon session, Haitian senators voted to oust Prime Minister Michele Pierre-Louis.

Chavista reconoce solamente a Unasur en disputa con Colombia

La presencia de tropas estadounidenses en siete bases colombianas genera un ``problema entre Colombia y Am&...

Venezuela to get 300 tanks, armored vehicles

President Hugo Chavez is hailing the forthcoming arrival of 300 Russian-made tanks and armored vehicles, an...

Ugandans upset over Chavez' kind words for Amin

Ugandan officials were offended Sunday after Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez wondered out loud whether Uga...

Estudiantes inician huelga de hambre en Venezuela

Un grupo de estudiantes opositores al presidente venezolano, Hugo Chávez, se declaró el s&aac...

Hugo Chavez invites Fidel Castro to Venezuela

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is inviting his mentor Fidel Castro to visit Venezuela during the coming m...

Venezuela: No direct talks with Colombia on bases

Venezuela has no interest in talking directly to Colombia to end a monthslong crisis but would support an e...

Detenido en la frontera venezolana un candidato colombiano a la presidencia

El candidato liberal a la presidencia de Colombia, Rafael Pardo, pidió este viernes que se declare l...

Chavez praises alleged terrorist Carlos the Jackal

President Hugo Chavez is praising Carlos the Jackal, the imprisoned Venezuelan once notorious for a series ...

Venezuela acusa a Colombia de 'provocación' tras nueva denuncia

Chávez llama 'desgraciado' al canciller colombiano

El presidente venezolano, Hugo Chávez, llamó "desgraciado'' al canciller colombiano, Jaime Be...

Se desploma el comercio entre EEUU y Venezuela

El comercio entre Estados Unidos y Venezuela registró durante los primeros nueve meses del 2009 una...

COLOMBIA

Mother wants U.S. military to allow justice for girl's rape

The alleged rape of a girl at the hands of a U.S. officer on a Colombian military base has rekindled the an...

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...

LOS ANGELES TIMES

The FARC isn't finished

The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, the oldest and strongest terrorist group in North or South Amer...

THE WASHINGTON POST

Ecuadoran town a hub for drug-running rebels, Colombia says

Authorities in neighboring Colombia contend that the Ecuadorean border town of Puerto Nuevo is the thriving...

THE WASHINGTON POST

Scandals surround Colombia's Alvaro Uribe

For weeks after the news broke, Colombians knew only that the secret police had spied on Supreme Court judg...

THE WASHINGTON POST

Colombia orders return of stolen farmland

What happened in northwestern Colombia more than a decade ago might easily have been forgotten. Illegal mil...

KCJA

Colombian blogs use acid humor to reflect polarization

Whether they criticize President Uribe or his opponents, bloggers from Bogotá and other cities employ irrev...

LOS ANGELES TIMES

A key to Colombia peace: Reintegrating ex-fighters

Programs that help former FARC rebels and paramilitary troops reenter society is seen as crucial to the nat...

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR

Colombian drugs behind Guinea-Bissau murders?

The murder of the president and the Army chief on Monday raises questions about the nature of the instabili...

EFE

Mexican student visited other FARC camps (Spanish)

El ex director de Inteligencia del Ejército ecuatoriano Mario Pazmiño confirmó hoy a Efe que informes y fot...

LOS ANGELES TIMES

West Africa gets help fighting Latam drug traffickers

Aware that law enforcement agencies of poor West African nations are no match for drug cartels using the re...

LOS ANGELES TIMES

Put pressure on Honduras

De facto, interim or congressionally installed -- no matter the qualifier -- Roberto Micheletti is not the ...

WALL STREET JOURNAL

Why Honduras Sent Zelaya Away

In a perfect world former Honduran President Manuel Zelaya would be in jail in his own country right now, a...

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...

THE WASHNGTON POST

Oscar Arias: Fuel for a Coup

The Perils of Latin America's Oversized Militaries

THE WASHINGTON POST

EDITORIAL | A Chance for Honduras

The best way to defeat deposed president Manuel Zelaya lies in allowing his return.

BLOOMBERG

Cuba keeps ill writer jailed as Norway awards prize

A few weeks ago, Normando Hernandez Gonzalez got the kind of news that usually prompts cheers and emotion-f...

NEWSWEEK

The Havana obsession; Why all eyes are on a bankrupt island

Bill Clinton and George W. Bush recently had a face-to-face debate in Canada to discuss current affairs. Th...

AKRON BEACON JOURNAL

Obama has many options to change course on Cuba

The Obama administration has made an excellent first step to eliminate some restrictions on travel to Cuba,...

COHA

Commentary: Cuban oil: Havana's potential geo-political bombshell

As the Obama administration slowly inches towards normalizing its relations with Cuba, pressure is mounting...

INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY

Hugo Chavez's war on free trade in Peru

What does Venezuela's Hugo Chavez call a nation that develops peacefully, embraces markets, promotes proper...

THE WEEKLY STANDARD

Dictatorships and Double Standards

In all my years as an observer of international affairs, I have seldom seen the Organization of American St...

THE WASHNGTON POST

In deeply split Honduras, a potentially combustible situation

To many poor Hondurans, deposed president Manuel "Mel" Zelaya was a trailblazing ally who scrapped school t...

THE WASHINGTON POST

An American in Honduras -- Rich man, poor plan

Allen Andersson made a bundle, then made things happen -- for a while -- in Honduras

THE WASHINGTON POST

For U.S. and OAS, new challenges to Latin American democracy

Bayonet-wielding soldiers are not the biggest threat to democracy in Latin America, where more than a dozen...

LOS ANGELES TIMES

Tensions mount as Honduras defies OAS

Honduras' new leadership ignores OAS deadline to restore Manuel Zelaya, and threatens to arrest him if he r...

THE NEW YORK TIMES

Mexican cartels lure American teens as killers

When he was finally caught, Rosalio Reta told detectives here that he had felt a thrill each time he killed...

WALL STREET JOURNAL

The Mexican Drug Lord Who Got Away

Mexican drug lord Joaquín Guzmán Loera has become a narco folk hero, and each year that Mexico is unable to...

THE WASHINGTON POST

In Mexico, the U.S. Downturn Hits Home

Remittances sent home by Mexicans in the United States are the second-largest source of legal foreign reven...

THE WASHINGTON POST

In Juarez, A Trail of Drugs and Violence

Assailants have been targeting addicts in Ciudad Juarez for the past year. In August, eight men were killed...

THE WASHINGTON POST

Mexico targets drug trade in Michoacan

Since Mexican President Felipe Calderon sent troops into his home state of Michoacan in 2006 to fight drug ...

THE NEW YORK TIMES

In Mexican city, drug war ills slip into shadows

The reminders of Nuevo Laredo’s violent days still mar its streets — bullet holes and the impacts of grenad...

THE WASHINGTON POST

Hugo Chávez raising pressure on Globovision

In recent weeks, officials in Venezuela -- where the government controls a media apparatus devoted to glowi...