GUANTANAMO

FOIA suit reveals Guantánamo’s ‘indefinite detainees’

In response to a suit by The Miami Herald, the Defense Department released Monday the names of 48 Guant...

9/11 trial

Accused 9/11 plotters back in Guantánamo war court

Alleged mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four other men accused of plotting the Sept. 11 attacks retur...

Guantanamo Bay

Prosecutor: Court ruling cuts vision for Guantánamo war crimes trials

Guantánamo's chief war crimes prosecutor predicts there will be just seven more war crimes trials afte...

CUBA

Dissidents say they are returning to Cuba reenergized

Cuban dissidents say their trips abroad are giving them more energy and ambitions, as well as more supporte...

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

Military takes to the streets in fight against crime in Dominican Republic

The military has joined the fight against escalating crime in the Dominican Republic, leading some to quest...

HUNGER STRIKE

Medical ethicists say stop Guantánamo force-feeding

Writers in an influential medical journal are urging a mutiny at the U.S. Navy base prison where, as of Thu...

Ecuador

Ecuador broadcasters fear being shutdown with new media law

Ecuador passed a sweeping new media law Friday that will increase the number of state-run and community run...

WAR COURT

Guantánamo’s first secret national security session a mystery

CUBA

Radio/TV Marti’s new ways of disseminating information

USB drives that can be easily hidden and texts that can be sent to large groups are among new methods Radio...

CUBA

Toronto man convicted of tourist sex crimes in Cuba

MEXICO

Cuban migrants in Mexico demand freedom after 3 months in a lockup

As seven Cubans held in Mexico demand their freedom, another 19 boat people have landed on the Yucatan Pen...

Venezuela's Feb. 15 vote to end term limits

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

The changing face of immigration

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

Haiti children face malnutrition crisis

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

Full coverage of Americas Conference

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

Vodou shrub is alternative fuel

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

Paquita la del Barrio sings of the wrongs that men do

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

CHAVEZ'S GRAND CRUSADE | PART 1 OF 4

Latin America's Money Man

With oil enriching Venezuela's coffers, President Hugo Chávez is lavishing billions on other countries, boo...

POISONED LIVES

Pollution sickens children in Dominican Republic

The illegal battery smelter so contaminated children here that some of them have been found with what are s...

FOOD CRISIS

Crop fields hold hope in Haiti

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

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CUBA

Cuba cites drop in U.S., European arrivals as tourism sags

A new government report in Cuba suggests initial enthusiasm for travel to Cuba has fallen flat.

Cuba

Cuba and U.S. begin talks on resuming direct mail service

Direct mail service between the two countries was suspended in 1963. It currently travels via third countries.

CUBA

Bahamas: Video of Cubans being kicked fraudulent

An official in Nassau has denied that a guard stomped on detained Cuban migrants.

AP source: U.S., Cuba to resume talks on direct mail

The United States and Cuba will resume talks this week on restarting direct mail service despite a deadlock...

CUBA

Dissidents say they are returning to Cuba reenergized

Cuban dissidents say their trips abroad are giving them more energy and ambitions, as well as more supporte...

Defected Cuban dancers adjust to U.S., seek work

They practice in the back of a dance studio next to a Wendy's restaurant in a strip mall. Six ballet dancer...

MEXICO

Cuban migrants in Mexico demand freedom after 3 months in a lockup

As seven Cubans held in Mexico demand their freedom, another 19 boat people have landed on the Yucatan Pen...

CUBA

Toronto man convicted of tourist sex crimes in Cuba

CUBA

Radio/TV Marti’s new ways of disseminating information

USB drives that can be easily hidden and texts that can be sent to large groups are among new methods Radio...

Cuba

Remittances from Cubans abroad drive the island’s economy

Remittances to Cuba have increased to almost $1 billion during the last four years of the Obama administrat...

Jellyfish ends Australian's Cuba-US swim attempt

Five tries. Five failures.

Haiti

Giving water — the gift of life in Haiti

With the worst access to safe drinking water in the hemisphere, Haiti is getting help in fixing its dilapid...

Haitian bodybuilders flex muscles in rare contest

Impoverished Haiti is not renowned for its bodybuilders. Only a handful of gyms exist - air-conditioned one...

UN condemns eviction of about 150 Haiti families

The United Nations is condemning the eviction of up to 150 Haitian families living in a makeshift settlemen...

2 out of 3 people face hunger as Haiti woes mount

The hardship of hunger abounds amid the stone homes and teepee-like huts in the mountains along Haiti's sou...

Penn charity gives NY spots for Haiti race winners

Haiti held a rare half-marathon Sunday with the participation of Hollywood actor Sean Penn's charity, which...

Dominican official denies report of bird flu

A Dominican official says Haiti erroneously reported that his country has an outbreak of avian flu when it ...

Haiti

Colombia, U.S. help train Haitian women police

Training programs help increase the number of women and increase professionalism in Haiti’s police f...

Haiti

Spain vs Haiti, it’s more than just a soccer match

A soccer friendly at Sun Life Stadium is providing a boost to one man’s vision to help create a worl...

Haiti

Caribbean diplomat to lead UN mission in Haiti

U.N. mission in Haiti gets career diplomat from the Caribbean as its head

Caribbean

Biden heads to Brazil after ‘brutal’ discussions in Caribbean

Vice President Joe Biden says a one-day visit to Trinidad and Tobago, where he held meetings with leaders o...

Haiti

Two years into his presidency, Michel Martelly says Haiti is on the move

Haitian President Michel Martelly once promised Haitians sweeping change but as he begins his third year in...

Venezuela

Amid woes at home, Maduro meets with Pope Francis

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and Pope Francis swept away years of tension between the administr...

Venezuelan president seeks canonization for doctor

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has asked Pope Francis to canonize a doctor who tended to the poor in C...

Venezuela's cardinal: Pope should urge coexistence

Pope Francis should pressure Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to focus on promoting democracy and peacef...

Venezuela frees judge from house arrest

Venezuelan authorities on Friday freed a judge who was arrested in 2009 after then-President Hugo Chavez ob...

Venezuela Elections

Venezuela auditors: no signs of fraud in contested presidential vote

After finishing an audit of Venezuela’s contested presidential election, authorities say there are n...

Venezuelan president to meet pope

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro is scheduled to meet Pope Francis at the Vatican on June 17.

New app helping Venezuelans find scarce items

Venezuela council's election audit backs outcome

Venezuela's Electoral Council has completed an audit of results from April's bitterly contested presidentia...

Venezuela's Maduro halts restricted food sale plan

President Nicolas Maduro said Saturday that he has put a halt to a plan to restrict sales of 20 basic food ...

Hugo Chavez given Venezuela journalism prize

The late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been awarded the country's National Journalism Prize even tho...

Venezuela frees US filmmaker jailed as alleged spy

A U.S. filmmaker jailed for alleged espionage in Venezuela was expelled from the country and returned to th...

Colombia Peace

Colombian peace talks resume as the FARC eyes its political future

Colombia resumed peace talks with the FARC guerrillas in Havana on Tuesday. The issue during this round: th...

Vice presidential trip

Biden heads to the Caribbean, Latin America

Vice President Joe Biden embarks on a hemispheric tour to discuss a broad list of issues in Colombia, Trini...

Pacific Alliance Summit

Costa Rica and Guatemala move closer to joining Pacific Alliance bloc

At the Pacific Alliance meeting in Colombia, the presidents of Costa Rica and Guatemala said they hoped to ...

Pacific Alliance Summit

In bloc-happy Latin America, the Pacific Alliance hopes to stand out

The four nations of the Pacific Alliance — Colombia, Chile, Mexico and Peru — are holding a s...

Coffee

Colombia’s fight against coffee blight may show the way for stricken Central America

As coffee-leaf rust sweeps through Central America and Mexico, Colombian farmers are just beginning to emer...

Colombia

U.S. exports gain in first year of U.S.-Colombia trade pact

Colombian Saint

Madre Laura named Colombia’s first saint

Colombia

Colombia’s capital banks on marijuana cure for hard drug addicts

Colombian kingpin faces drug charges in Miami, New York after extradition

The accused drug kingpin, designated by the U.S. government as one of the “most significant” ...

“Cocaine godmother” Griselda Blanco gunned down in Colombia

LOS ANGELES TIMES

Tensions linger between Colombia and Ecuador

Ecuador today will begin imposing stiff tariffs on hundreds of Colombian imports, the latest round in a fes...