CUBAN HEALTHCARE
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.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
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.
PARAGUAY
The sounds of heaven, plucked on 36 strings, fill the ramshackle houses and potholed streets of this sleepy capital. Some of that music comes from the basement of harp master Adolfo Bernal, better known here as Papi Galan, who has spread the distinctive folksy strains of the Paraguayan harp all over the world.
DRUG-TRAFFICKING
A U.S. crackdown on domestic methamphetamine labs has created opportunities for Mexican drug cartels and their ''superlabs'' to fill the void.
COLOMBIA
According to the director of Colombia's National Police, General Oscar Naranjo, the success of recent military operations against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) have forced the rebels to go back to the old system of using couriers as their only means of communications.
LOS ANGELES TIMES
In the end, getting his picture taken with President Bush and attaining a modicum of local fame was no help to Miguel Daza. In fact, his high profile may have been the death of him.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Fans cringed when the Brazilian soccer icon Ronaldo Luis Nazário de Lima — known simply as Ronaldo in the soccer world — was questioned by the police here after he invited three male, cross-dressing prostitutes to a pay-by-the-hour motel room.
THE WASHINGTON POST
Outrageous as they seem, drug cartel messages trying to recruit Mexican army soldiers are becoming increasingly common along the violence-savaged U.S.-Mexico border and in other parts of the region.
LOS ANGELES TIMES
There is no shortage of good things to eat in the open-air Wholesale Market in Managua, Nicaragua's capital. But talk to merchants and shoppers and they'll tell you stories of want, not bounty. The fallout from exploding global prices for grains and fuel has landed hard on this impoverished Central American nation of 5.7 million people.
WALL STREET JOURNAL
The American flag and the flag of Puerto Rico fly side by side everywhere on this island. But there's one place where Puerto Rico's flies all by itself: on a silver pole in a clump of palm trees at the Albergue Olímpico -- home to Puerto Rico's ferociously patriotic Olympic athletes.
LOS ANGELES TIMES EDITORIAL
BOLIVIAN President Evo Morales claims to be ruling his country on behalf of an indigenous majority whose rights have been denied for centuries by an evil "oligarchy." In fact, as a referendum in the country's largest province has demonstrated, Mr. Morales is pursuing a narrow and divisive agenda that, if continued, will split Bolivia along geographic as well as ethnic lines, and possibly trigger a civil war.
A newly disclosed set of documents that Colombia's government says were recovered from a slain rebel's computers indicate senior Venezuelan officials tried to help arm Colombia's main guerrilla army.
President Hugo Chávez's ex-wife said Friday that the Venezuelan leader is suing her in a case involving their 10-year-old daughter.
BRAZIL
A Brazilian prosecutor has appealed the controversial acquittal of a rancher who had been convicted last year of ordering the murder of U.S. nun Dorothy Stang in the Amazon forest, extending an emotional court case that has made world headlines.
WALL STREET JOURNAL
A cache of controversial computer files closely tying Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez to communist rebels seeking to topple Colombia's government appear to be authentic, U.S. intelligence officials say. They are likely to ratchet up pressure for the U.S. to impose sanctions on one of its most important oil suppliers.
The files that have been made public so far haveA major U.S. counter-drug aid package for Mexico is under attack by U.S. organized labor, which says Congress should reject the initiative unless tough human rights conditions are included, according to a letter revealed Friday.
Somebody wants to kill Rogaciano Alba. Dozens of gunmen attacked the house of the local political boss, killing his sons and kidnapping his daughter in a weekend rampage that left 17 dead. With Alba in hiding, the motive remains unclear, lost in the tangle of drugs, land disputes and rebellion that lurks amid Mexico's glittering beach resorts.
LOS ANGELES TIMES
The Argentine winter resort town of Esquel wears a mantle of white in the South American autumn. But it's not from early snows. Ash from the Chaiten volcano across the Andes in Chile has been falling on the Argentine side of the border since the volcano erupted last week -- its first eruption in thousands of years.
ARGENTINA
After more than a month of failed negotiations with government officials, thousands of farmers have re-created roadblocks and held back production all over this country to protest a controversial increase in agricultural export taxes.
Satellite photos show that Amazon destruction has dropped sharply since the onset of a massive crackdown on illegal logging by Brazil's government.
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