http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2008 MiamiHerald.com Americas 60 Mon, 12 May 2008 21:49:20 EDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/1237/story/408854.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1237/story/408854.html Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:38 EST Colombia and the FARC guerrillas have been in the news lately because of the Colombian military's cross-border raid into Ecuador that killed a top guerrilla leader. <p/>For the latest information on the issues, click on the headline above. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/249822.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/249822.html Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:41 EDT Argentina is becoming a symbol of the far-reaching effects of global food inflation. Like other developing countries that depend on agricultural exports, it is struggling mightily to figure out how to protect local food sources without breaking the backbone of its economy. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/261707.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/261707.html Fri, 05 Oct 2007 15:02 EDT Argentine farmers say talks with the national government are going nowhere and are yet more proof that President Cristina Fernandez does not understand them. http://www.miamiherald.com/949/story/469766.html http://www.miamiherald.com/949/story/469766.html Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:04 EDT LO DE LUNA, Mexico -- The effects of the subprime mortgage crisis and the downturn in the U.S. economy have cascaded into Mexico, causing a sudden, precipitous drop in the flow of money sent home by Mexican immigrants and highlighting this country's dependence on its wealthier northern neighbor http://www.miamiherald.com/1237/story/425229.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1237/story/425229.html Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:59 EST Here's my humble forecast of what will happen in Cuba after Fidel Castro's resignation as president of the island's ruling Council of State: You will see change disguised as continuity. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/529583.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/529583.html Mon, 12 May 2008 08:02 EDT The Cuban contingent that competed in last week's Pan American Judo Championships left Miami for Havana on Monday afternoon without gold-medal-winning judoka Yurisel Laborde, who left the group Sunday afternoon http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/529568.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/529568.html Mon, 12 May 2008 03:01 EDT Some arrive on foot, walking for miles in the scorching Haitian heat. Others come by way of bicycles and even donkeys. Every morning, farmers and the children of farmers make their way to this sleepy rural town on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince carrying gallons of fresh cow milk. http://www.miamiherald.com/915/story/530567.html http://www.miamiherald.com/915/story/530567.html Mon, 12 May 2008 20:33 EDT An attempt to reach Florida turned into 17 days at sea for Cuban migrants crammed aboard a rickety sailboat that drifted ashore in Mexico near the Belize border. http://www.miamiherald.com/915/story/530550.html http://www.miamiherald.com/915/story/530550.html Mon, 12 May 2008 21:04 EDT Haitian legislators on Monday rejected President Rene Preval's pick for prime minister, extending a monthlong period without a functioning government for the troubled nation. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/530214.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/530214.html Mon, 12 May 2008 14:56 EDT El Espectador, Colombia's oldest newspaper, has been bombed, torched and occupied by troops, and its most legendary editor, Guillermo Cano, was slain in a hail of gunfire. The paper published Gabriel García Márquez's first stories, long before he became a Nobel Prize winner, and has printed verses from the renowned poet Porfirio Barba-Jacob. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/529972.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/529972.html Mon, 12 May 2008 11:12 EDT Few issues have dogged Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez recently as much as his legal battle with the former first lady, Marisabel Rodríguez, which culminated on Sunday when Mr. Chávez withdrew his lawsuit seeking better visitation rights with their 10-year-old daughter, Rosinés. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/529582.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/529582.html Mon, 12 May 2008 03:01 EDT Since arriving in mid-2005 from Cuba, Marta H. felt very welcome in the small locality of western Venezuela where she and four other comrades were sent by the Barrio Adentro health program sponsored by the Cuban and Venezuelan governments. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/529970.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/529970.html Mon, 12 May 2008 11:07 EDT By next year, if Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa gets his way, the U.S. military facility in the port of Manta will be gone, and, with it, one of the most festering sources of controversy in Washington’s long war on drugs. http://www.miamiherald.com/915/story/530079.html http://www.miamiherald.com/915/story/530079.html Mon, 12 May 2008 15:59 EDT President Evo Morales committed himself and Bolivia's nine governors on Monday to face recall votes on Aug. 10, gambling that his unfinished term will survive a referendum whose peculiar rules tilt in the populist leader's favor. http://www.miamiherald.com/915/story/530078.html http://www.miamiherald.com/915/story/530078.html Mon, 12 May 2008 12:51 EDT Cuba on Monday dismissed a videoconference between President Bush and three key dissidents as a stunt to bolster the U.S. leader's low approval ratings, claiming there would be no political opposition on the island without funding from Washington. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/columnists/andres_oppenheimer/story/528172.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/columnists/andres_oppenheimer/story/528172.html Sun, 11 May 2008 03:01 EDT The murder of the acting chief of Mexico's federal police amid an unprecedented wave of drug gang attacks on security officials will soon become a major issue in the U.S. presidential candidates' escalating war for Hispanic votes.