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The State Department would not confirm resumption of the talks but said in May that it hoped to 'use the renewal of talks to reaffirm both sides' commitment to safe, legal and orderly migration.'' http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1139760.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1139760.html Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:12 EDT Honduran Interim President Roberto Micheletti continued to shore up his cabinet Monday, swearing in the nation's top diplomat and its environmental chief, as this Central American nation struggles to win international support amid a two-week political crisis. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1138517.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1138517.html Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:52 EDT Hondurans enjoyed their first night of unfettered freedom in two weeks after the interim government lifted a curfew imposed following the ouster of President Manuel Zelaya. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1139370.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1139370.html Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:35 EDT For months, the reports percolated in Washington and other capitals. Iran was constructing a major beachhead in Nicaragua as part of a diplomatic push into Latin America, featuring huge investment deals, new embassies and even TV programming from the Islamic republic. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1140218.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1140218.html Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:17 EDT Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya gave his rival, Roberto Micheletti, one week to step down, saying he was prepared to risk bloodshed to recapture the presidency, which he lost on June 28. 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/662668.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1051/story/662668.html Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:17 EDT An Inconvenient Truth: Swine Flu Politics and the Argentine Media 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/1139341.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/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/story/1138690.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1138690.html Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:03 EDT Venezuelan reporters -- seen as generating favorable coverage of Honduras' ousted president Manuel Zelaya -- were detained by police overnight as the new administration tries to restore order in the wake of the two-week political crisis. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1137765.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1137765.html Sun, 12 Jul 2009 20:32 EDT The day after soldiers raided Honduran President Manuel Zelaya's house and bundled him, still in his pajamas, out of the country, President Barack Obama stood with Colombia's visiting leader at the White House and branded the act an illegal coup. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1138043.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1138043.html Sun, 12 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, the man who is seeking to resolve the Honduran crisis in his living room, is a 67-year-old economist and lawyer by training with salt-and-pepper hair, and the 1987 Nobel Peace Prize. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1138689.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1138689.html Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:59 EDT Sitting next to her younger brother's white casket on the back of a pick up truck, an angry Rebeca Murillo screamed at soldiers guarding the city's international airport as the hearse drove past the deadly site. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1138843.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1138843.html Sun, 12 Jul 2009 20:47 EDT The upheaval in Honduras epitomizes a new kind of Latin American struggle, in which elected leftist leaders defy the status quo and test the limits of democracy. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1138049.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1138049.html Sun, 12 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT Supporters of ousted President Manuel Zelaya paid tribute Saturday to a teenager killed during protests and expressed fear the interim government will drag out negotiations to resolve the crisis so it can remain in power through November elections. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1138032.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1138032.html Sun, 12 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT Like most thoroughfares in booming cities of the developing world, Bogota's Seventh Avenue resembles a noisy, exhaust-coated parking lot -- a gluey tangle of cars and the rickety, smoke-puffing private minibuses that have long provided transportation for the masses. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1136946.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1136946.html Sun, 12 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT An overwhelming offensive against the media in Venezuela this week has reached a crescendo, with the possibility that hundreds of radio and television stations will soon be shut down. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1136935.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1136935.html Sat, 11 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT While ousted President Manuel Zelaya carries out a raucous public battle to return and finish the last six months of his term, the Honduran attorney general is quietly collecting evidence that might put Zelaya behind bars -- or keep him at bay -- for years. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1136931.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1136931.html Sat, 11 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT An appeals court found insufficient evidence to warrant the trial of a Guatemalan whose Twitter message led to his arrest on charges of inciting financial panic. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1136918.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1136918.html Sat, 11 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT Unwilling to consent to a face-to-face meeting, the two men dueling to lead this nation have left the battle in the hands of emissaries. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1135287.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1135287.html Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT Roberto Micheletti has been in national politics for three decades -- long enough to be one of the fathers of the constitution that he says legitimizes his power. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1134287.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1134287.html Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:35 EDT 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. 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/1140020.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1140020.html Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:36 EDT The Obama administration will resume long-suspended migration talks with Cuba Tuesday, members of Congress said. The State Department would not confirm resumption of the talks but said in May that it hoped to 'use the renewal of talks to reaffirm both sides' commitment to safe, legal and orderly migration.'' http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1138860.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1138860.html Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:00 EDT Paul Haven has been appointed The Associated Press chief of bureau in Havana, Cuba, following three years of leading the cooperative's news operations in Spain and Portugal as Madrid bureau chief. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1134440.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1134440.html Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:38 EDT Cuba and a consortium of foreign oil companies have once again postponed plans to drill for oil in the island's still-untapped fields in the Gulf of Mexico, diplomatic and industry sources said this week. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1134462.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1134462.html Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:23 EDT About 29 thousands Cubans are members of more than 300 Masonic lodges in various cities of the country and at the same time are actively involved in public work, humanitarian and charitable projects. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1134479.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1134479.html Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:23 EDT http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1131904.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1131904.html Wed, 08 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT Miami Lakes resident Norma Flores still can't make sense of the unexpected death of her sister, Marisel Gutiérrez, who was satisfactorily recovering from a cancer operation. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1126600.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1126600.html Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:24 EDT In what may well be a first, a Catholic archbishop worshipped with U.S. troops at the U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo then turned up across the minefield separating the base from Cuba a day later to offer a Mass for Cuban worshipers in Guantánamo province. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1128798.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1128798.html Mon, 06 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT A bus full of medical and school supplies headed to Cuba will depart from Miami at noon Monday, continuing its decades-long battle against the U.S.-imposed embargo on the island nation. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1125987.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1125987.html Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:23 EDT A Cuban pitcher considered by many baseball scouts to be the No. 1 left-handed prospect in the world left his hotel and vanished before the first ball was thrown at a tournament in the Netherlands, leaving his whereabouts a mystery, a spokesman for the Dutch team said Friday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1124605.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1124605.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:24 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/news/americas/cuba/story/1123891.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1123891.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:25 EDT On June 24, five Cuban dissidents received the annual Democracy Award given by the National Endowment for Democracy. José Daniel Ferrer, Iván Hernández and Librado Linares are serving long prison terms for their peaceful opposition. Imprisoned for 17 years, Jorge Luis García, known as Antúnez, was released in 2007. He and wife Iris Tamara Pérez, a fellow awardee, are under virtual house arrest. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1121934.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1121934.html Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT A peek inside the apartment of husband-and-wife spy suspects reveals a shortwave radio, a sailing guide to Cuban waters -- and now a copy of The Spy's Bedside Book, according to new court documents in the case. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1121636.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1121636.html Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:43 EDT A charter company has started offering non-stop flights between Los Angeles and Havana after the Obama administration lifted travel restrictions on Cuban-Americans. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1121115.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1121115.html Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:42 EDT Cuba is letting workers hold multiple government jobs for the first time under an overhaul of the island's labor system. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1139025.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1139025.html Mon, 13 Jul 2009 07:09 EDT Donald Warner Henderson http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1137461.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1137461.html Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:05 EDT A ferry capsized off Haiti's southern coast Saturday morning, killing at least five people. Authorities said it wasn't clear how many people were on board, but as many as two dozen could be missing. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1135690.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1135690.html Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:11 EDT The Caribbean is still struggling to recover from last year's hurricanes, with crews scrambling to rebuild homes and replant crops as the region faces a new season of storms. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1134368.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1134368.html Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:03 EDT The newly elected chief of Dominica's Caribs, the last remaining pre-Columbian tribe in the eastern Caribbean, said Thursday he has high hopes for the island's dwindling indigenous population. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1134300.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1134300.html Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:56 EDT The Paris Club of creditor nations said Wednesday it has canceled $62.73 million of debt it is owed by Haiti and that further bilateral agreements have cleared the Caribbean nation's remaining debt to individual club members. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1133650.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1133650.html Thu, 09 Jul 2009 08:08 EDT What started off as a science project at Gulliver Prep will soon provide clean water to people in Haiti. A team of 13 biomedical sciences and engineering students invented a solar-powered water purification system that they'll be sending to a hospital when the school year starts. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1131894.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1131894.html Wed, 08 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT Bill Clinton on Tuesday took his Haiti relief effort to this battered seaside city that was nearly destroyed last year by tropical storms, finding a mud-caked maze of partially rebuilt homes and shops. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1131892.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1131892.html Wed, 08 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT Amid the lush beauty and black, sandy beaches of the cash-strapped island of Dominica, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez is providing free cooking gas to the poor, financing a coffee treatment plant and constructing an oil-storage facility. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1131627.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1131627.html Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:33 EDT A lack of coordination among aid groups and Haitian leaders is hurting efforts to ease poverty in the Caribbean nation, Bill Clinton said Wednesday as he wrapped up his first trip here as a special U.N. envoy. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1129913.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1129913.html Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:32 EDT Bill Clinton aims to refocus international attention on this Caribbean country's deep economic problems and environmental decay during his first visit as the United Nations' special envoy to Haiti. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1128211.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1128211.html Mon, 06 Jul 2009 03:13 EDT When Micheline Leon was diagnosed with HIV, her parents told her they would fit her for a coffin. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1128727.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1128727.html Mon, 06 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT Caribbean leaders ended a four-day summit here a day early, pledging to launch a lobbying effort among international financial institutions to acquire desperately needed cash to help keep their economies afloat amid the spreading global economic crisis. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1125492.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1125492.html Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT Leaders of the Caribbean Community opened a four-day summit Thursday in Georgetown, Guyana, to the strains of steel drums and a call for unity as a host of weighty issues threaten to tear apart the 15-member regional bloc. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1124792.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1124792.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:57 EDT British officials looking into corruption allegations in the Turks and Caicos Islands have called for a criminal investigation of Premier Michael Misick, authorities said Thursday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/venezuela/story/1140230.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/venezuela/story/1140230.html Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:33 EDT Un fotógrafo estadounidense trabajando para el diario New York Times fue detenido brevemente por agentes de seguridad del gobernador deL estado venezolano de Barinas, quienes se apoderaron de su cámara y borraron sus fotos antes de regresarla. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/venezuela/story/1140100.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/venezuela/story/1140100.html Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:18 EDT An American photographer working for The New York Times was briefly detained by agents from the security detail of a Venezuelan state governor, who seized his camera and erased his photos. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/venezuela/story/1140095.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/venezuela/story/1140095.html Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:12 EDT Venezuelan opposition leaders said Monday that they will meet with the secretary-general of the Organization of American States to discuss their concerns about growing authoritarianism under President Hugo Chavez. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/venezuela/story/1139368.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/venezuela/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/news/americas/venezuela/story/1139210.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/venezuela/story/1139210.html Mon, 13 Jul 2009 07:14 EDT El mandatario venezolano Hugo Chávez pidió este domingo al presidente de Estados Unidos, Barack Obama, que retire sus tropas de la base militar de Palmerola, en Honduras, para demostrar así su rechazo al golpe en ese país. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/venezuela/story/1139013.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/venezuela/story/1139013.html Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT Los líderes del sector empresarial de Guatemala pidieron a los presidentes de Venezuela y Bolivia ''no entrometerse'' en los asuntos internos del país centroamericano, informó el diario local Siglo XXI. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/venezuela/story/1136946.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/venezuela/story/1136946.html Sun, 12 Jul 2009 20:21 EDT An overwhelming offensive against the media in Venezuela this week has reached a crescendo, with the possibility that hundreds of radio and television stations will soon be shut down. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/venezuela/story/1138054.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/venezuela/story/1138054.html Sun, 12 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT El presidente de Guatemala, Alvaro Colom, descartó que haya intentos de golpe de Estado en su país, como lo advirtieron este viernes los presidentes de Venezuela y Bolivia, mientras que el Ejército reafirmó su respeto y apoyo a la institucionalidad. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/venezuela/story/1136711.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/venezuela/story/1136711.html Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:15 EDT Una abrumadora ofensiva oficial contra la prensa en Venezuela alcanzó esta semana un nivel sin precedentes, con la posibilidad real de cierre para centenares de emisoras de radio y televisión y crecientes presiones contra medios impresos. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/venezuela/story/1135045.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/venezuela/story/1135045.html Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:35 EDT President Hugo Chavez's government is imposing new regulations on cable television while revoking the licenses of more than 200 radio stations, the top telecommunications official said Thursday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/venezuela/story/1135172.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/venezuela/story/1135172.html Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:05 EDT Senadores brasileños reaccionaron el jueves con irritación ante una carta del embajador venezolano Julio García Montoya, quien criticó la lentitud del Congreso en aprobar el acceso de su país al Mercosur. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/venezuela/story/1134056.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/venezuela/story/1134056.html Thu, 09 Jul 2009 08:01 EDT President Hugo Chavez's government on Wednesday questioned the sincerity of the Obama administration's stated desire to improve relations with Venezuela, accusing the U.S. of sending ``aggressive signals.'' http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/venezuela/story/1133642.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/venezuela/story/1133642.html Thu, 09 Jul 2009 07:21 EDT Fresh from a meeting with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the head of Venezuela's main opposition television network said he's returning home convinced Clinton supports Globovisión's efforts to speak out against Hugo Chávez's government. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/venezuela/story/1133435.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/venezuela/story/1133435.html Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:26 EDT The mayor of Venezuela's capital ended a hunger strike Wednesday after the head of the Organization of American States agreed to meet with him and other opposition leaders to discuss moves by the government they say erode their authority. 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/1138798.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/1138798.html Sun, 12 Jul 2009 20:40 EDT President Alvaro Uribe delivered reparations totaling nearly $1 million on Sunday to 279 victims of Colombia's long-running conflict. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/1133341.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/1133341.html Thu, 09 Jul 2009 07:15 EDT Colombian President Alvaro Uribe says he will allow an opposition senator to accompany the release of hostages held by FARC rebels. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/1131900.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/1131900.html Wed, 08 Jul 2009 08:16 EDT During the Colombia Free Trade Agreement discussions in the White House and Congress, a major point has been missed. Colombia is the No. 1 source of drugs that lead to murders, crowding in prisons and family disunion. Congressional ratification of the Colombia Free Trade agreement will help Colombia create jobs outside of the drug trade and reduce the export of these lethal products. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/1123066.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/1123066.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:51 EDT A year after Colombian military agents disguised as international aid workers helicoptered Ingrid Betancourt and three U.S. military contractors to freedom, an offer by their former leftist rebel captors to unilaterally free two hostages is in limbo. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/1120709.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/1120709.html Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:10 EDT An Ecuadorean judge has issued an arrest order for a former Colombian defense minister in connection with a cross-border raid on a guerrilla camp in Ecuador's jungle. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/1097421.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/1097421.html Mon, 15 Jun 2009 08:24 EDT Wounded by two pistol shots in the nocturnal solitude of the hills, peasant Aladino Ríos was cool-headed enough to ask his captors why they wanted to kill him. 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/1066969.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/1066969.html Wed, 27 May 2009 07:10 EDT Colombia's FARC is working to reinvent itself after suffering almost seven years of sustained military pressure under President Alvaro Uribe -- a period that has seen its top leaders killed, mid-level cadres captured and the rescue of its top hostages. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/1064323.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/1064323.html Sun, 24 May 2009 22:35 EDT An alleged rebel turned over to Colombia by Mexico held a key role promoting his guerrilla group internationally, authorities said Saturday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/1060595.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/1060595.html Fri, 22 May 2009 08:20 EDT Colombia's President Alvaro Uribe says it would be ''inappropriate'' for him to seek a third consecutive term. His statement comes two days after the senate approved a referendum that would ask voters to permit him to run again. Uribe did not, however, clearly rule out a reelection bid. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/1059065.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/1059065.html Thu, 21 May 2009 11:17 EDT Colombia's conservative President Alvaro Uribe never had much in common with leftist President Hugo Chávez of neighboring Venezuela -- until now. 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/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/1138974.html http://www.miamiherald.com/294/story/1138974.html Mon, 13 Jul 2009 07:44 EDT For Latin America, events in Honduras are the tragic yet logical culmination of the silence of the United States and the inter-American community to the sustained assault on democratic institutions in that 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/1131900.html http://www.miamiherald.com/294/story/1131900.html Wed, 08 Jul 2009 08:16 EDT During the Colombia Free Trade Agreement discussions in the White House and Congress, a major point has been missed. Colombia is the No. 1 source of drugs that lead to murders, crowding in prisons and family disunion. Congressional ratification of the Colombia Free Trade agreement will help Colombia create jobs outside of the drug trade and reduce the export of these lethal products. http://www.miamiherald.com/294/story/1123891.html http://www.miamiherald.com/294/story/1123891.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:26 EDT On June 24, five Cuban dissidents received the annual Democracy Award given by the National Endowment for Democracy. José Daniel Ferrer, Iván Hernández and Librado Linares are serving long prison terms for their peaceful opposition. Imprisoned for 17 years, Jorge Luis García, known as Antúnez, was released in 2007. He and wife Iris Tamara Pérez, a fellow awardee, are under virtual house arrest. 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/1121932.html http://www.miamiherald.com/294/story/1121932.html Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:27 EDT The United States, the OAS, the European Union, Hugo Chávez, Fidel Castro -- most of all, Chávez and Castro -- want Manuel Zelaya immediately restored to the presidency of Honduras. He was expelled from the country on the morning of June 28. http://www.miamiherald.com/294/story/1109984.html http://www.miamiherald.com/294/story/1109984.html Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:34 EDT The Obama administration has made an excellent first step to eliminate some restrictions on travel to the island, 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/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/1100596.html http://www.miamiherald.com/294/story/1100596.html Thu, 18 Jun 2009 08:30 EDT Why would someone betray his country? More specifically, why would an American citizen from a distinguished family with a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins and a long and seemingly successful career in academia and the State Department agree to spy for Castro's Cuba? That's the question I've been wondering about since Walter Kendall Myers, 72, and his wife, Gwen, 71, were arrested and accused of spying for the Castro regime for nearly three decades. http://www.miamiherald.com/294/story/1097424.html http://www.miamiherald.com/294/story/1097424.html Mon, 15 Jun 2009 08:01 EDT Speaking recently in France about the North Korean nuclear crisis, President Barack Obama faced up to the futility and danger of extending the hand of U.S. friendship toward countries whose fists stay clinched. ''I do not intend to continue a policy of rewarding provocation,'' he vowed. 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/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/1320/story/1088764.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/1088764.html Tue, 09 Jun 2009 07:50 EDT Shows started fads in the past -- now they're linked to lower fertility and higher divorce rates http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/1087209.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/1087209.html Mon, 08 Jun 2009 08:05 EDT When anti-narcotics agents first heard that drug cartels were building an armada of submarines to transport cocaine, they thought it was a joke. Now U.S. law enforcement officials say that more than a third of the cocaine smuggled into the United States from Colombia travels in submersibles. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/1140408.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/1140408.html Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:21 EDT Mexico and the United States have agreed on a protocol for sharing information in arms trafficking cases. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/1140155.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/1140155.html Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:17 EDT Prosecutors said they found the bound, blindfolded and tortured bodies of at least a dozen people Monday on a roadside in the western state of Michoacan, which has become a flash point in Mexico's war on drugs. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/1140100.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/1140100.html Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:17 EDT An American photographer working for The New York Times was briefly detained by agents from the security detail of a Venezuelan state governor, who seized his camera and erased his photos. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/1140095.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/1140095.html Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:12 EDT Venezuelan opposition leaders said Monday that they will meet with the secretary-general of the Organization of American States to discuss their concerns about growing authoritarianism under President Hugo Chavez. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/1140057.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/1140057.html Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:47 EDT Ousted President Manuel Zelaya, clearly frustrated with stalled negotiations aimed at resolving the country's political crisis, issued an ultimatum to the interim government Monday: Reinstate me or else.