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Then my baby was born like that, without arms. Nothing like that had ever happened here before.'' http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1319391.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1319391.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:02 EST Subversive reggaetoneros Calle 13 were the big winners at the 10th Latin Grammy Awards on Thursday night, while elderly Cuban diva Omara Portuondo made history by not only being the first Cuban artist from the island to appear on the telecast, but the first to win an award on the air. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1319259.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1319259.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:00 EST An outspoken critic of the Obama administration's handling of the crisis in Honduras late Thursday dropped his opposition to two State Department nominees, saying the administration has reversed course. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1321131.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1321131.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:00 EST The Haitian Senate unanimously approved a longtime technocrat as prime minister Friday, hoping that a man with long ties to Haiti's political power brokers and the international community can lead this nation through its fifth change of cabinets in five years. http://www.miamiherald.com/1051/story/653894.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1051/story/653894.html Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:18 EDT Our prize-winning columnist also answers your questions online Thursdays at 1 p.m. http://www.miamiherald.com/1051/story/653899.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1051/story/653899.html Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:22 EDT <!--#include virtual="/static/blog_includes/cuban_colada.html" --> http://www.miamiherald.com/1051/story/653900.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1051/story/653900.html Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:24 EDT <b>Tyler Bridges</b> blogs from Latin America http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1317313.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1317313.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00 EST A U.S.-mediated pact reached last week that aims to return deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya to office and end the country's destabilizing political crisis is in danger of unraveling as Honduras' Congress takes its time to consider the deal. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1315618.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1315618.html Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:09 EST A Brazilian bricklayer reportedly killed in a car crash shocked his mourning family by showing up alive at his funeral. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1314857.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1314857.html Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:00 EST A Miami dentist set up a drop-off spot on Flagler Street in Little Havana. A Broward business owner donated thousands of dollars to build soy processing factories. And a West Palm Beach church plans to ship food. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1314871.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1314871.html Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:49 EST When the Latin Grammy Awards are presented for the 10th time on Thursday, there will be plenty of cause for celebration.<p/> The awards, which honor the top musical artists throughout the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking world, are extremely popular. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1313144.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1313144.html Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:00 EST The scene outside the U.S. Embassy last week illustrated fraying tensions in this capital where the Sandinista government has been maneuvering for reelection: Agitated pro-government youths hurled fireworks, rocks and eggs at the embassy grounds and shouted ``Death to the Yankees! Death to the empire!'' http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1310360.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1310360.html Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:00 EDT Cillian Twomey is an eminent doctor, a geriatrician in his native Ireland. So what is he doing here, in this bleak, sweltering Haitian border town? http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1310373.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1310373.html Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:00 EDT Whether it's called an ``arms race'' or a ``coincidental modernization'' of existing stocks, a wave of weapons purchases by Latin American nations is causing neighbors to watch each other with growing mistrust and fear. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1309102.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1309102.html Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT The former president of Honduras just put his fate in the hands of a Congress that voted 122-6 to oust him.<p/> But a power-sharing deal hatched late Thursday with a push from the Obama administration could bring an end to Honduras' four-month political crisis and allow toppled President Manuel Zelaya to come out of hiding from the Brazilian Embassy and face something else: a judge. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1309084.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1309084.html Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Schools opened, public transportation ran as usual and Haitians went about their daily struggle Friday as this Caribbean nation awoke to find that Prime Minister Miche`le Pierre-Louis' year-old government had been toppled overnight. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1308680.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1308680.html Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:07 EDT U.S. and Colombian officials Friday signed a pact for U.S. military access to Colombian bases that has been vociferously denounced by Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and other leftist Latin American presidents as a regional threat negotiated in secret. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1307692.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1307692.html Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:50 EDT A U.S.-brokered agreement that could return ousted President Manuel Zelaya to power was sent to the Honduran Congress on Friday for consideration. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1307474.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1307474.html Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Haiti's Senate voted just after midnight Friday to dismiss Prime Minister Michele Pierre-Louis, following almost 10 hours of debate.<p/> Senate President Kely Bastien, who is not allowed to cast a vote under Senate rules, said a letter will be sent to President René Préval notifying him of the Senate's 18-0 decision. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1307498.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1307498.html Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Turn out the lights, shorten the shower to three minutes, buy a portable generator.<p/> That is President Hugo Chávez's message to the citizens of energy-rich Venezuela, where the ``socialist revolution'' has brought power cuts, water shortages and collapsing public services. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1308134.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1308134.html Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:51 EDT In a private, low-key ceremony, the U.S. ambassador and three Colombian ministers on Friday signed a pact giving American personnel expanded access to military bases in this drug-producing country, a deal that Venezuela's Hugo Chavez has called a threat to the region's security. http://www.miamiherald.com/americas-special/story/906862.html http://www.miamiherald.com/americas-special/story/906862.html Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:21 EST Read The Miami Herald's full coverage of the key vote, and its aftermath http://www.miamiherald.com/americas-special/story/818585.html http://www.miamiherald.com/americas-special/story/818585.html Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:36 EST In this four-part series, The Miami Herald explores the impact of a changing immigration landscape on illegal immigrants, their families and their communities, from South Florida to Latin America and the Caribbean http://www.miamiherald.com/americas-special/story/797806.html http://www.miamiherald.com/americas-special/story/797806.html Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:30 EST Read all of The Miami Herald's Staff coverage of the malnutrition crisis faced by Haitian children http://www.miamiherald.com/americas-special/story/768141.html http://www.miamiherald.com/americas-special/story/768141.html Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:51 EST The Miami Herald's coverage of the 2008 Americas Conference, which drew hundreds of participants from the hemisphere. http://www.miamiherald.com/americas-special/story/704813.html http://www.miamiherald.com/americas-special/story/704813.html Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:36 EDT For generations, Vodou practitioners in rural Haiti have sworn by the mystic qualities of Jatropha, an indigenous plant believed to purge evil spirits and release the trapped souls of the dead. But the shrub may soon be in bigger demand as a source of biofuel http://www.miamiherald.com/americas-special/story/675722.html http://www.miamiherald.com/americas-special/story/675722.html Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:38 EDT The titles of her songs speak volumes: Wicked Men, Low Blow, Pure Pain and Hypocrite. Then there's her mega hit: Two-Legged Rat. Rife with tales of abusive husbands, impotent lovers and cheating boyfriends, these lyrics have made Francisca Viveros Barradas -- better known as Paquita la del Barrio -- much more than an artist. She has become a sociological phenomenon. http://www.miamiherald.com/americas-special/story/406087.html http://www.miamiherald.com/americas-special/story/406087.html Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:38 EST With oil enriching Venezuela's coffers, President Hugo Chávez is lavishing billions on other countries, boosting his socialist-tinged image. http://www.miamiherald.com/americas-special/story/39816.html http://www.miamiherald.com/americas-special/story/39816.html Tue, 13 Mar 2007 03:01 EDT The illegal battery smelter so contaminated children here that some of them have been found with what are supposed to be fatal levels of lead in their blood. But they are alive -- many of them with eye problems, seizures, severe learning deficiencies and blank stares like Johan's. http://www.miamiherald.com/americas-special/story/503497.html http://www.miamiherald.com/americas-special/story/503497.html Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:37 EDT The roots of this country's food crisis lies next to Mesidor Sagesse's humble field, where large-scale farming was long ago abandoned in favor of imported ''Miami'' rice. http://www.miamiherald.com/americas-special/story/899710.html http://www.miamiherald.com/americas-special/story/899710.html Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:56 EDT Click on the SPECIAL REPORTS tab on the green MULTIMEDIA line to see more in-depth reports by The Miami Herald http://www.miamiherald.com/americas-special/story/899711.html http://www.miamiherald.com/americas-special/story/899711.html Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:58 EDT More Miami Herald Cuba coverage http://www.miamiherald.com/americas-special/story/899717.html http://www.miamiherald.com/americas-special/story/899717.html Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:00 EDT More Miami Herald coverage of Haiti and the Caribbean http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1321116.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1321116.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:00 EST More than 50 House Democrats sent a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi supporting current Cuba policy, which embargo-supporters say effectively means that a bill to open Cuba to tourists is dead. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1321125.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1321125.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Famed Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez said Friday she and another blogger were punched and thrown violently into a car by presumed state security agents as they walked to participate in a peaceful march in downtown Havana. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1320034.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1320034.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:52 EST Sixteen Cuban crewmen were stranded Thursday in a backwater African port, with little cash and owed up to 11 months of salary, after their cargo ship began listing with a possibly illegal lumber cargo aboard. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1319270.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1319270.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:00 EST A Miami sports agent sentenced to 15 years in a Cuban prison for trying to help Orlando ``El Duque'' Hernández and other baseball stars defect has been freed and will fly home Friday, his former business partner said. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1317311.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1317311.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Two Czech tourists arrested in March after they shouted insulting remarks about Fidel and Raúl Castro during a scuffle at Havana's international airport will be tried next week, diplomatic sources confirmed Wednesday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1313282.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1313282.html Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Cuban purchases of U.S. food will fall by at least a third this year as the island slashes imports to stabilize an ever-weak economy further hammered by the global economic crisis, a top trade official said Monday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1305759.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1305759.html Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT The United States found itself up against virtually the entire world Wednesday as country after country at the United Nations denounced the nearly 50-year-old trade embargo against Cuba, which the island government says is as strong as ever under President Barack Obama. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1304960.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1304960.html Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:19 EDT The habanero peppers, oranges and peanuts cost more at Cuba's free-market "agros" - farmers markets where vendors, not the government, set prices. But food stalls overflow with abundance not seen elsewhere on the shortage-plagued island. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1303480.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1303480.html Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:59 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/news/americas/cuba/story/1300821.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1300821.html Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:22 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/news/americas/cuba/story/1300032.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1300032.html Sun, 25 Oct 2009 01:00 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/news/americas/cuba/story/1294072.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1294072.html Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT A new poll of Cuban Americans shows a strong majority favor allowing all Americans to travel to the island, a major shift from a 2002 survey that showed only a minority supporting the change, the Bendixen & Associates polling firm reported. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1292944.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1292944.html Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:27 EDT A new poll of Cuban Americans shows a strong majority favor allowing all Americans to travel to the island, a major shift from a 2002 survey that showed only a minority supporting the change, the Bendixen & Associates polling firm reported Tuesday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1290474.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1290474.html Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:37 EDT A Cuban newspaper has deleted an online column harshly attacking the government's tight controls on information and arguing that a well-informed citizenry is required for a ``more full and democratic socialism.'' http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1321131.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1321131.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:48 EST The Haitian Senate unanimously approved a longtime technocrat as prime minister Friday, hoping that a man with long ties to Haiti's political power brokers and the international community can lead this nation through its fifth change of cabinets in five years. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1320857.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1320857.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:50 EST Haitian senators have taken a key first step toward replacing the prime minister they ousted a week ago. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1319257.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1319257.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:22 EST ARROYO BARRIL, Dominican Republic -- Maximiliano Calcaño is 2 and was born with no arms.<p/> ``When I was pregnant, I was dizzy, vomiting and could barely walk,'' said Maximiliano's mother, Anajai Calcaño, 20. ``My tooth cracked and fell out. Then my baby was born like that, without arms. Nothing like that had ever happened here before.'' http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1310360.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1310360.html Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Cillian Twomey is an eminent doctor, a geriatrician in his native Ireland. So what is he doing here, in this bleak, sweltering Haitian border town? http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1309100.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1309100.html Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT When dozens of Haitian leaders mingled at a luncheon fundraiser on a cruise ship docked at the Port of Miami, one topic kept popping up over and over: The imminent dismissal of Prime Minister Miche`le Pierre-Louis. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1309084.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1309084.html Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Schools opened, public transportation ran as usual and Haitians went about their daily struggle Friday as this Caribbean nation awoke to find that Prime Minister Miche`le Pierre-Louis' year-old government had been toppled overnight. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1308881.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1308881.html Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:21 EDT Haiti's president turned Friday to a member of his former prime minister's freshly dissolved Cabinet to replace her, a day after she was abruptly removed by the Senate in a vote that reflects the country's deep political divisions. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1307474.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1307474.html Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Haiti's Senate voted just after midnight Friday to dismiss Prime Minister Michele Pierre-Louis, following almost 10 hours of debate.<p/> Senate President Kely Bastien, who is not allowed to cast a vote under Senate rules, said a letter will be sent to President René Préval notifying him of the Senate's 18-0 decision. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1306919.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1306919.html Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:01 EDT A small plane crashed into a field and burst into flames shortly after taking off Thursday in St. Croix, killing all three people on board, authorities in the U.S. Virgin Islands said. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1307033.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1307033.html Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:51 EDT Roman Catholic officials in Grenada have temporarily banned wine-drinking and hand-holding during Mass out of swine flu concerns. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1307183.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1307183.html Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:51 EDT Jamaica is resisting a U.S. request to hand over a suspected crime boss with ties to the Caribbean nation's governing party amid reports he is stockpiling weapons in his Kingston stronghold to prevent arrest. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1306757.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1306757.html Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:31 EDT Haitian lawmakers ousted the prime minister Friday in a power struggle that threatens to undermine a campaign to attract foreign investment to the impoverished country. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1305762.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1305762.html Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT As Haiti's lawmakers appeared poised to reject a last-minute plea from Prime Minister Michele Pierre-Louis to delay Thursday's vote to oust her, the international community appeared resigned to accept her likely dismissal. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1303210.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1303210.html Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:20 EDT A U.S. man faces life in a sweltering Caribbean prison after a jury convicted him of drowning his wife during a scuba-diving trip a decade ago in what prosecutors called a near perfect murder. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/venezuela/story/1323199.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/venezuela/story/1323199.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:10 EST President Hugo Chavez on Sunday ordered Venezuela's military to prepare for a possible armed conflict with Colombia, saying his country's soldiers should be ready if the United States attempts to provoke a war between the South American neighbors. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/venezuela/story/1322671.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/venezuela/story/1322671.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Mientras que una sequía ha puesto a Caracas bajo un estricto racionamiento de agua por primera vez en años, para los venezolanos de este barrio miseria en un cerro la situación no es nueva. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/venezuela/story/1321326.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/venezuela/story/1321326.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:16 EST While a drought has put Caracas under widespread water rationing for the first time in years, for Venezuelans in this hillside slum it's just more of the same. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/venezuela/story/1321032.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/venezuela/story/1321032.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:00 EST La oposición venezolana denunció el viernes que el nuevo ministro de Energía Eléctrica,Angel Rodríguez, ``toma de manera ilegal'' electricidad de un poste público, en medio de una crisis del sector que afecta con continuos y prolongados apagones a casi todo el país. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/venezuela/story/1321031.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/venezuela/story/1321031.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:00 EST La tensión entre Colombia y Venezuela aumentó tras la firma de un acuerdo militar entre Bogotá y Washington, momento en que el gobierno de Hugo Chávez avivó sus críticas hacia el país vecino y ordenó desplegar 15,000 militares en Estados fronterizos para proteger su territorio. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/venezuela/story/1320296.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/venezuela/story/1320296.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:19 EST Los programas de cooperación de Venezuela con Cuba sumaron casi 1,500 millones de dólares en 2009, informó el ministro de Comercio Exterior de la isla, Rodrigo Malmierca, citado hoy por medios oficiales. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/venezuela/story/1319202.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/venezuela/story/1319202.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:00 EST El embajador de Estados Unidos en Colombia, William Bronwfield, negó este jueves que su país esté implicado en la violencia que se registra en la frontera colombo-venezolana, como lo aseguró el canciller de Caracas, Nicolás Maduro. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/venezuela/story/1319032.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/venezuela/story/1319032.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:55 EST President Hugo Chavez's government is sending 15,000 soldiers to the border with Colombia, saying the military buildup is needed to increase security, combat drug trafficking and root out paramilitary groups. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/venezuela/story/1318422.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/venezuela/story/1318422.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:20 EST Venezuela incrementó la presencia de efectivos militares en su frontera con Colombia, informó este jueves el ministro de Relaciones Exteriores de Caracas, Nicolás Maduro, a propósito de la firma del acuerdo que suscribieron recientemente Bogotá y Washington. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/venezuela/story/1317290.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/venezuela/story/1317290.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:05 EST El ex presidente colombiano Ernesto Samper advirtió que hay una "situación de preguerra'' con Venezuela por el mal manejo que se le ha dado al acuerdo militar firmado con EEUU para el uso de bases militares y la falta de comunicación entre los dos gobiernos. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/venezuela/story/1317074.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/venezuela/story/1317074.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:00 EST El gobierno calificó el miércoles de ``suma gravedad'' hipótesis que indican que nueve colombianos asesinados hace 11 días en territorio venezolano eran paramilitares. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/venezuela/story/1316840.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/venezuela/story/1316840.html Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:05 EST Swine flu has appeared among Venezuela's Yanomami Indians, one of the largest isolated indigenous groups in the Amazon, and a doctor said Wednesday that the virus is suspected in seven deaths, including six infants. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/venezuela/story/1314912.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/venezuela/story/1314912.html Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:57 EST Los pasos fronterizos entre el estado venezolano del Táchira y el departamento colombiano de Norte de Santander, fue reabierto al atardecer del martes, al parecer por algunas horas, informaron corresponsales de emisoras en la ciudad colombiana de Cúcuta. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/venezuela/story/1313665.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/venezuela/story/1313665.html Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:11 EST A Venezuelan man was arrested in the shooting deaths of two National Guard soldiers near the Colombian border, a crime that authorities blame on right-wing Colombian paramilitary fighters. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/1218573.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/1218573.html Sat, 05 Sep 2009 08:37 EDT Olga Lucía Castillo could never bring to justice the men who raped her in Bogotá when she was pregnant with her daughter. Twelve years later, she is putting up the fight of her life to have a U.S. Army officer and a Mexican-born contractor indicted because, according to her, they raped her daughter at the military base in Melgar. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/1139341.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/1139341.html Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:19 EDT Ecuador today will begin imposing stiff tariffs on hundreds of Colombian imports, the latest round in a festering dispute between the neighbors. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/1072113.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/1072113.html Fri, 29 May 2009 15:33 EDT The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, the oldest and strongest terrorist group in North or South America, turns 45 this week -- that's 45 years of kidnappings, murders, bombings and drug trafficking. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/1057063.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/1057063.html Wed, 20 May 2009 08:06 EDT Authorities in neighboring Colombia contend that the Ecuadorean border town of Puerto Nuevo is the thriving nerve center for an elite Colombian rebel unit that helps keep a 44-year-old insurgency alive by trafficking cocaine through Ecuador's ports. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/1053707.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/1053707.html Mon, 18 May 2009 07:47 EDT For weeks after the news broke, Colombians knew only that the secret police had spied on Supreme Court judges, opposition politicians, activists and journalists. Suspicions swirled that the orders for the wiretapping, as well as general surveillance, had come from the presidential palace. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/963414.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/963414.html Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:40 EDT What happened in northwestern Colombia more than a decade ago might easily have been forgotten. Illegal militias forced poor black farmers off their land, which politically connected businessmen then seized http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/951779.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/951779.html Sun, 15 Mar 2009 21:50 EDT Whether they criticize President Uribe or his opponents, bloggers from Bogotá and other cities employ irreverent humor—borrowing from the British and Argentine traditions—to illustrate Colombia's political tensions. “Behind the liberty that their pseudonyms give them, (the bloggers) loosen the reins of their political passions," the weekly magazine Semana says. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/940780.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/940780.html Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:51 EDT Programs that help former FARC rebels and paramilitary troops reenter society is seen as crucial to the nation's long-term peace. The U.S. is on board, checkbook in hand. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/932061.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/932061.html Wed, 04 Mar 2009 11:30 EST The murder of the president and the Army chief on Monday raises questions about the nature of the instability in the African nation. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/920972.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/920972.html Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:32 EST El ex director de Inteligencia del Ejército ecuatoriano Mario Pazmiño confirmó hoy a Efe que informes y fotografías que señalaban la presencia de la estudiante mexicana Lucía Morett en varios campamentos de las FARC el año pasado están documentados en la Dirección de Inteligencia Militar. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/902752.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/902752.html Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:33 EST Aware that law enforcement agencies of poor West African nations are no match for drug cartels using the region as a major transit hub, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the European Commission have launched a program to offer training in operations and intelligence gathering, as well as the chance to network with agents from other countries. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/899217.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/899217.html Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:14 EST Human rights groups Tuesday called on the Colombian government to investigate the disappearance and slayings of members of an indigenous community in southwestern Colombia. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/888265.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/888265.html Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:08 EST The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, which has funded its war against the government with drug trafficking and kidnappings for ransom, has released four hostages: three police officers and a soldier. Two more are to be released in coming days, according to a senior rebel leader, as a gesture of goodwill. But the time for gestures is long past. If the FARC's aim is political credibility, it needs to demonstrate a complete rejection of lawless behavior and release the hundreds of other captives it still holds in the jungle. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/862406.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/862406.html Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:20 EST Colombian military officials say the 20% increase in FARC desertions last year from the 2007 level is compelling evidence of their increasing battlefield dominance over the FARC, which the military has been fighting for more than 40 years. http://www.miamiherald.com/294/story/1142392.html http://www.miamiherald.com/294/story/1142392.html Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:20 EDT De facto, interim or congressionally installed -- no matter the qualifier -- Roberto Micheletti is not the president of Honduras. Manuel Zelaya is, and like him or not, the man who was ousted in a military-civilian coup on June 28 should be returned to Tegucigalpa to finish the last months of his term http://www.miamiherald.com/294/story/1142364.html http://www.miamiherald.com/294/story/1142364.html Wed, 15 Jul 2009 07:53 EDT In a perfect world former Honduran President Manuel Zelaya would be in jail in his own country right now, awaiting trial. The Honduran attorney general has charged him with deliberately violating Honduran law and the Supreme Court ordered his arrest in Tegucigalpa on June 28. http://www.miamiherald.com/294/story/1139368.html http://www.miamiherald.com/294/story/1139368.html Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:31 EDT As the Obama administration and a host of Latin American governments campaigned to reverse the coup in Honduras, another democratically elected Latin leader embarked on a lonely effort to draw attention to the double standard that has lately governed violations of political and human rights in the region. http://www.miamiherald.com/294/story/1134041.html http://www.miamiherald.com/294/story/1134041.html Thu, 09 Jul 2009 07:56 EDT The Perils of Latin America's Oversized Militaries http://www.miamiherald.com/294/story/1134039.html http://www.miamiherald.com/294/story/1134039.html Thu, 09 Jul 2009 07:51 EDT The best way to defeat deposed president Manuel Zelaya lies in allowing his return. http://www.miamiherald.com/294/story/1124605.html http://www.miamiherald.com/294/story/1124605.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:24 EDT A few weeks ago, Normando Hernandez Gonzalez got the kind of news that usually prompts cheers and emotion-filled toasts. The Cuban journalist and poet had been awarded the annual Freedom of Expression award by the Norwegian Writers’ Union. A delegation traveled from Oslo to the island nation to present the award, which included a prize of 100,000 kroner (about $15,775). http://www.miamiherald.com/294/story/1119210.html http://www.miamiherald.com/294/story/1119210.html Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:08 EDT Bill Clinton and George W. Bush recently had a face-to-face debate in Canada to discuss current affairs. The only Latin American nation mentioned in their conversation? Cuba. http://www.miamiherald.com/294/story/1119208.html http://www.miamiherald.com/294/story/1119208.html Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:04 EDT The Obama administration has made an excellent first step to eliminate some restrictions on travel to Cuba, to loosen constraints on remittances, and to re-engage in migration talks. Positive, multiple lines of engagement are clearly the way forward. Broader contact and leverage with Cuba through additional commercial and people-to-people contacts will in time help promote a more pluralistic, less impoverished, and more open society. http://www.miamiherald.com/294/story/1097153.html http://www.miamiherald.com/294/story/1097153.html Sun, 14 Jun 2009 17:27 EDT As the Obama administration slowly inches towards normalizing its relations with Cuba, pressure is mounting on the new president to lift the decades-old, and universally acknowledged, anachronistic embargo http://www.miamiherald.com/294/story/1090542.html http://www.miamiherald.com/294/story/1090542.html Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:42 EDT What does Venezuela's Hugo Chavez call a nation that develops peacefully, embraces markets, promotes property rights, pursues free trade and has no use for his revolution? A target. Welcome to Peru. http://www.miamiherald.com/294/story/1090435.html http://www.miamiherald.com/294/story/1090435.html Wed, 10 Jun 2009 08:03 EDT In all my years as an observer of international affairs, I have seldom seen the Organization of American States (OAS) so energized by a single issue. If only that issue were the humanitarian tragedy of Haiti, or the defense of democracy in those member countries where it is under siege--such as Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Bolivia. http://www.miamiherald.com/294/story/1088819.html http://www.miamiherald.com/294/story/1088819.html Tue, 09 Jun 2009 09:03 EDT In a post-bubble world that vilifies the private sector and elevates government as humanity's best hope, two events in Latin America last week deserve attention. The first was a meeting of the Organization of American States in Honduras. The OAS voted to lift the 1962 ban on Cuba's membership. The second was the 25th anniversary celebration of the Venezuelan, pro-liberty think-tank Cedice Libertad in Caracas. http://www.miamiherald.com/294/story/1087208.html http://www.miamiherald.com/294/story/1087208.html Mon, 08 Jun 2009 08:01 EDT THE INVITATION to membership extended to Cuba Wednesday by the Organization of American States was long overdue. The United States' effort to continue Cuba's exclusion from the OAS was at best a historical anomaly, at worst a blunder that isolated not Cuba but the United States. http://www.miamiherald.com/294/story/1081198.html http://www.miamiherald.com/294/story/1081198.html Thu, 04 Jun 2009 09:52 EDT For 50 years, the Cuban people have suffered under Fidel Castro’s, and now Raúl Castro’s, repressive rule. But Washington’s embargo — a cold war anachronism kept alive by Florida politics — has not lessened that suffering and has given the Castros a far-too-convenient excuse to maintain their iron grip on power. http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/1142483.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/1142483.html Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:35 EDT To many poor Hondurans, deposed president Manuel "Mel" Zelaya was a trailblazing ally who scrapped school tuitions, raised the minimum wage and took on big business. http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/1142398.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/1142398.html Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:26 EDT Allen Andersson made a bundle, then made things happen -- for a while -- in Honduras http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/1129064.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/1129064.html Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:43 EDT Bayonet-wielding soldiers are not the biggest threat to democracy in Latin America, where more than a dozen presidents have been removed prematurely since 1990. In recent years, a crop of elected, authoritarian-minded leaders has packed courts with supporters, held dubious elections and curtailed press freedoms. Legislatures have also pushed the boundaries of democratic order, giving legal cover to "civilian coups" in which protest groups have forced the ouster of presidents. http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/1128653.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/1128653.html Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:11 EDT Honduras' new leadership ignores OAS deadline to restore Manuel Zelaya, and threatens to arrest him if he returns. The coup has brought deep divisions in Honduras to the fore. http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/1119427.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/1119427.html Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:53 EDT When he was finally caught, Rosalio Reta told detectives here that he had felt a thrill each time he killed. It was like being Superman or James Bond, he said. “I like what I do,” he told the police in a videotaped confession. “I don’t deny it.” http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/1101381.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/1101381.html Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:11 EDT Mexican drug lord Joaquín Guzmán Loera has become a narco folk hero, and each year that Mexico is unable to catch "El Chapo" his legend grows. http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/1099434.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/1099434.html Tue, 16 Jun 2009 09:45 EDT Remittances sent home by Mexicans in the United States are the second-largest source of legal foreign revenue in the country. Last year, according to the Bank of Mexico, migrants sent home $25 billion. But the remittances have been falling steadily since the end of 2007, when construction, manufacturing and service industries began to sputter. These sectors employ a disproportionate percent of the almost 12 million Mexicans living in the United States, most of them illegally. http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/1099427.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/1099427.html Tue, 16 Jun 2009 09:40 EDT Assailants have been targeting addicts in Ciudad Juarez for the past year. In August, eight men were killed and five wounded by unknown attackers as they gathered for prayer at a treatment facility in this border city. Last week, a man was executed at a third rehabilitation center. http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/1097180.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/1097180.html Sun, 14 Jun 2009 17:54 EDT Since Mexican President Felipe Calderon sent troops into his home state of Michoacan in 2006 to fight drug traffickers, U.S. and Mexican officials have described a growing free-for-all between warring cartels in the state where 10 mayors were recently detained and are being investigated for alleged ties to drug traffickers. http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/1097171.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/1097171.html Sun, 14 Jun 2009 17:45 EDT The reminders of Nuevo Laredo’s violent days still mar its streets — bullet holes and the impacts of grenades where drug traffickers once flaunted their power, boarded-up buildings of merchants who fled the lawlessness, and until they were leveled by the government a few weeks ago, garish roadside shrines to Santa Muerte, the saint of death. http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/1094019.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/1094019.html Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:06 EDT In recent weeks, officials in Venezuela -- where the government controls a media apparatus devoted to glowing coverage of the president -- have appeared increasingly obsessed with Globovision, the 24-hour, all-news station. http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/1092170.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/1092170.html Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:22 EDT Yuri Melini was shot seven times by an assailant nine months ago. The outspoken champion of environmental causes has made many enemies, and gained recognition too. http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/1090488.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/1090488.html Wed, 10 Jun 2009 08:36 EDT After declaring independence from the rest of Nicaragua in April, a group of indigenous activists from the Mosquito Coast readied a grand celebration to commemorate the occasion. Their feast would be ruined, however, when the regional government sent in the police to seize the main course. http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/1088766.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/1088766.html Tue, 09 Jun 2009 07:54 EDT Cliff divers, all-night discos, towering hotels on the sand — that is one side of Acapulco. But a four-hour gun battle over the weekend between soldiers and suspected drug traffickers made clear that the popular beach resort has a dark side and that no part of Mexico may be completely immune from the continuing drug war. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/1323792.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/1323792.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:02 EST In his first year at San Marcos University, Hermenegildo Espejo barely spoke, and certainly not in class. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/1323240.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/1323240.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:15 EST Gunmen ambushed a convoy carrying Honduras' top prosecutor, but neither he nor his bodyguards were harmed, police said Sunday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/1323199.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/1323199.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:10 EST President Hugo Chavez on Sunday ordered Venezuela's military to prepare for a possible armed conflict with Colombia, saying his country's soldiers should be ready if the United States attempts to provoke a war between the South American neighbors. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/1323127.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/1323127.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:25 EST A Brazilian university has expelled a woman who was heckled by hundreds of fellow students for wearing a short, pink dress to class - publicly accusing her Sunday of immorality. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/1323126.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/1323126.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:20 EST Latin American governments are increasingly intervening in the news business, creating and favoring official media, regulating content and distribution and using other legal methods to silence their critics, a newspaper group said Sunday.