U.S., Colombian officials sign military bases accord

U.S. and Colombian officials Friday signed a pact for U.S. military access to Colombian bases that has been...

Ousted Honduran says pact restores him to power

HAITI

Haitian Senate fires prime minister

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

VENEZUELA

Shortages eroding Hugo Chávez's support

Pact signed to expand US use of Colombia bases

In a private, low-key ceremony, the U.S. ambassador and three Colombian ministers on Friday signed a pact g...

CONGRESS

Report on Honduras coup spurs dispute

A legal paper exploring the origins of the June removal of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya sparked a polit...

Honduras takes Brazil to world court over Zelaya

Honduras' interim government has filed a case at the U.N.'s highest court accusing Brazil of meddling in in...

HAITI

Haitian prime minister likely on way out

Haitian President René Préval has already picked a replacement for Prime Minister Michele Pie...

UNITED NATIONS

U.N. again condemns U.S. embargo of Cuba

The vote was 187-3, with two abstentions, as the United Nations once again denounced the U.S. embargo of Cuba.

AMERICAS

More Colombians massacred in Venezuela

Two new massacres in Venezuelan territory could raise the number of Colombians killed in recent weeks in Ve...

MIAMI BEACH

Cuba is focus of conference

Charles Shapiro, the senior advisor for economic initiatives in the State Department's Bureau of Western H...

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

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More Miami Herald Cuba coverage

More Miami Herald Cuba coverage

TRADE

Cuban spending on U.S. food may decline

Cuba's government is estimated to spend less than $590 million on American food in 2009 -- down at least 32...

UNITED NATIONS

U.N. again condemns U.S. embargo of Cuba

The vote was 187-3, with two abstentions, as the United Nations once again denounced the U.S. embargo of Cuba.

Cubans fear more gov't control of farmers markets

The habanero peppers, oranges and peanuts cost more at Cuba's free-market "agros" - farmers markets where v...

MIAMI BEACH

Cuba is focus of conference

Charles Shapiro, the senior advisor for economic initiatives in the State Department's Bureau of Western H...

Castro's sister: My work with CIA didn't threaten brothers' lives

Juanita Castro was recruited by the CIA in 1961 through her friend Virginia Leitao de Cunha, wife of the B...

FORWARD LOOK

Fidel Castro's sister says she worked with CIA while in Cuba

CUBA

Poll shows shift in Cuba travel opinions

A new poll of Cuban Americans shows a strong majority favor allowing all Americans to travel to the island,...

All Americans should be allowed travel to Cuba, says new poll

A new poll of Cuban Americans shows a strong majority favor allowing all Americans to travel to the island,...

Cuban newspaper deletes online column critical of regime

A Cuban newspaper has deleted an online column harshly attacking the government's tight controls on informa...

U.S. INTELLIGENCE

Cuba's spy `walk-ins' target U.S., experts say

Two Cuba experts said spies sent by Cuba to the United States after 9/11 were part of a permanent intellige...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

U.S. calls to Cuba have decreased

Possibly because more Cuban Americans are visiting Cuba these days, the number of calls to Cuba have gone d...

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 Michčle Pierre-Louis

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

Haiti's president turns to Cabinet for new PM

Haiti's president turned Friday to a member of his former prime minister's freshly dissolved Cabinet to rep...

HAITI

Haitian Senate fires prime minister

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

Police: Small plane crash in St. Croix kills 3

A small plane crashed into a field and burst into flames shortly after taking off Thursday in St. Croix, ki...

Grenada Catholics alter Mass for swine flu fears

Roman Catholic officials in Grenada have temporarily banned wine-drinking and hand-holding during Mass out ...

Jamaica balks at US request for alleged crime boss

Jamaica is resisting a U.S. request to hand over a suspected crime boss with ties to the Caribbean nation's...

Haitian Senate ousts another prime minister

Haitian lawmakers ousted the prime minister Friday in a power struggle that threatens to undermine a campai...

HAITI

Haitian prime minister likely on way out

Haitian President René Préval has already picked a replacement for Prime Minister Michele Pie...

US man convicted of scuba death of wife in BVI

A U.S. man faces life in a sweltering Caribbean prison after a jury convicted him of drowning his wife duri...

Reabren puentes fronterizos entre Venezuela y Colombia

Los pasos fronterizos entre el estado venezolano del Táchira y el departamento colombiano de Norte d...

Man detained in killings of 2 Venezuelan soldiers

A Venezuelan man was arrested in the shooting deaths of two National Guard soldiers near the Colombian bord...

Venezuela ataca a la Comisión de Derechos Humanos

Venezuela arremetió el lunes de nuevo contra la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (...

Venezuela investigates slaying of Chavez foe

Venezuelan authorities are investigating the shooting death of an opponent of President Hugo Chavez.

Venezuela says 2 troops slain near Colombia border

Two soldiers in Venezuela's National Guard have been shot to death near the border with Colombia.

Empresario venezolano es un preso político, denuncia abogado

Expulsan a suboficial venezolano capturado en frontera con Colombia

Las autoridades de Colombia expulsaron el domingo de su territorio a un suboficial de las Fuerzas Armadas d...

Lorenzo Mendoza: Un compromiso con Venezuela

El empresario venezolano Lorenzo Mendoza es una figura atlética, de mirada acuciosa y de aspecto m&...

Venezuela reforma ley del Banco Central

Los legisladores venezolanos aprobaron una reforma de la ley que rige el Banco Central que le permitir&aacu...

Venezuela y Brasil firmaron 15 acuerdos energéticos y comerciales

Los presidentes de Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, y Brasil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, firmaron este vie...

Caracas denuncia espionaje colombiano

El gobierno de Venezuela denunció este jueves que la dirección de inteligencia de Colombia (D...

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 Pazmińo 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...