CUBA

A Cuban-American jailed in Cuba since 2006 is freed and sent home because of ill health

Julio Rafael Mesa Fariñas, freed by Cuba on Friday, was in a cell next to Alan Gross during part of hi...

GUANTANAMO

Pentagon won’t slow 9/11 death penalty filings

A senior Pentagon official told defense lawyers to write him by Monday on why the Sept. 11 mass murder file...

CUBA

Cuban women on a protest march say police harassed and detained them

They say they were trying to stage a march in the central Cuba city of Santa Clara when police searched th...

GOP: Taliban transfer plan sends ‘horrible message’

The Obama administration would cross a “dangerous line” and send a “horrible message&...

WAR COURT

Defenders seek 9/11 trial delay, blame Guantánamo legal mail dispute

This time, Pentagon defense lawyers are citing a new Guantánamo prison camp controversy involving insp...

Dissident blogger says Cubans wanted more from Brazilian visit

The Brazilian leader had vowed to make human rights a cornerstone of her foreign policy pointed to the U.S....

CUBA

Private Cuban video shows corruption cases

Top officials are getting private showings of a video that purportedly details ongoing corruption investig...

In My Opinion

Romney’s big win among Florida Hispanics hard to duplicate

A kind word of advice for Republican hopeful Mitt Romney: Don’t read too much into your impressive ...

Colombia

Colombia’s FARC suspends hostage release

Guerrillas suspended the release of six hostages and were accused of a lethal bombing in the Colombian por...

CUBA

Cuba food prices up 20% in 2011

Government report shows agricultural reforms not increasing production or dropping prices.

Rousseff in Cuba points to U.S. rights record at Guantánamo Bay

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff pushed back against criticisms of Cuba’s human rights record tha...

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...

More Miami Herald coverage

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More Miami Herald Cuba coverage

More Miami Herald Cuba coverage

CATHOLIC CHURCH

Vatican may put Cuba’s Felix Varela on the road to sainthood

Pope Benedict XVI may announce Felix Varela has been made a ‘venerable’ when he visits Cuba

Italy frees former Guantánamo detainee

CUBA

A Cuban-American jailed in Cuba since 2006 is freed and sent home because of ill health

Julio Rafael Mesa Fariñas, freed by Cuba on Friday, was in a cell next to Alan Gross during part of hi...

CUBA

Cuban women on a protest march say police harassed and detained them

They say they were trying to stage a march in the central Cuba city of Santa Clara when police searched th...

Dissident blogger says Cubans wanted more from Brazilian visit

The Brazilian leader had vowed to make human rights a cornerstone of her foreign policy pointed to the U.S....

CUBA

Private Cuban video shows corruption cases

Top officials are getting private showings of a video that purportedly details ongoing corruption investig...

CUBA

Cuba food prices up 20% in 2011

Government report shows agricultural reforms not increasing production or dropping prices.

Brazil prez: Blogger's travel for Cuba to decide

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said Tuesday that her country acted properly in granting an entry visa t...

CUBA

Cuban communists OK term limits for party and government officials

At the Cuban Communist Party’s first national conference, term limits are approved for government and ...

Oil drilling

Lawmakers ask if U.S. is prepared for Cuban oil drilling

Members of Congress want to know who would pay for the cleanup if there is a spill from an oil rig set to d...

CUBA

A Havana theater built in 1921 collapsed, killing one man and highlighting Cuba’s desperate housing shortage.

A theater opened in 1921 was the second fatal building collapse in 10 days

Haiti, through a photographer’s lens

A flicker of light in Haiti

Two years after an unprecedented and unimaginable natural disaster, Haiti still mourns its dead, struggles ...

Haiti leader says he won't meddle in Duvalier case

Haitian President Michel Martelly says he won't interfere in the case of former dictator Jean-Claude Duvali...

Crime

Good Samaritan shot during Haiti robbery attempt dies from wound

Brazil's Rousseff: Visas offered to Haiti

Brazil is offering 6,000 visas to Haitians over a five-year period as one of several efforts that look to h...

UN says Duvalier must be tried for Haiti abuses

The U.N.'s human rights office has sharply criticized a Haitian judge's recommendation against trying forme...

Haiti judge: Try Duvalier on corruption charges

A Haitian judge said Monday that former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier should face trial for corruption, but...

Haiti president now says no pardon for Duvalier

Haitian President Michel Martelly on Friday backed off a suggestion from an interview a day earlier that he...

Ohio man clings to life at Jackson Memorial after botched robbery in Haiti

An American man building an orphanage in Haiti is hospitalized in critical condition at Jackson Memorial af...

South Florida volunteer shot in Haiti

A South Florida volunteer was robbed and shot in Haiti while on a volunteer mission, according to a report ...

Scientists: Haiti, DR may facing big quake period

Haiti and the neighboring Dominican Republic could be in for a period of periodic powerful earthquakes, acc...

AP Interview: Haitian leader could pardon Duvalier

Haiti's president suggested Thursday that he might pardon former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier, saying reco...

Suspected kidnappers of Mexican diplomat arrested

Police have arrested two men and a woman suspected of participating in last week's kidnapping of Mexico's a...

Top Colombian warlord arrested in Venezuela

Venezuela says it has arrested on murder and drug trafficking charges the last major Colombian far-right pa...

Americas

ALBA bloc of nations to see new members

Suriname and St Lucia are seeking membership in the ALBA group of left-leaning nations, as the bloc continu...

VENEZUELA

Venezuela’s Chávez celebrates failed coup that launched his political career

Twenty years ago, Chávez tried to seize power by force. Now, the president is courting controversy as ...

ALBA countries to pool funds in joint bank

An eight-nation bloc of Latin American and Caribbean countries agreed on Sunday to deposit 1 percent of the...

Chavez: Iran sanctions hurt joint auto venture

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Saturday that international sanctions on Iran are impeding some of hi...

Chavez celebrates 20th anniversary of coup attempt

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez celebrated the 20th anniversary of the failed coup attempt that launched h...

Colombia rebel undergoes tests at Caracas hospital

A Colombian rebel commander who has been detained in Venezuela since May was taken to a military hospital b...

Cuba's Raul Castro visits Venezuela's Chavez

Cuban President Raul Castro flew to Caracas on Friday to attend a meeting with other allies of Venezuelan l...

Chavez raps allies for posing kids with rifles

President Hugo Chavez is strongly condemning an armed pro-government group for allegedly allowing children ...

Venezuela passes anti-terrorism law

Venezuela's congress has approved a law aimed at fighting organized crime and terrorism, though opposition ...

Colombia

Colombia’s FARC suspends hostage release

Guerrillas suspended the release of six hostages and were accused of a lethal bombing in the Colombian por...

Courts

Last of seven fake cheerleaders from Colombia sentenced in Miami

Nine adults and seven juveniles, posing as a visiting cheerleading team from Colombia, have little to cheer...

Colombia

Study shows shrinking power of Colombian cocaine trade

Drug trade isn’t the economic driver many suspected, according to the report.

Colombia

Colombian FARC hostage describes narrow escape

In one of his first interviews since escaping from Colombia’s rebels after 12 years, Luis Alberto Er...

Federal Court

Miami federal lawsuit accuses Colombian warlord of murders in homeland

A lawsuit filed in Miami federal court is the first in the nation to accuse a convicted Colombian paramilit...

Colombia

Colombian ad campaign aimed at FARC child soldiers

As Colombia keeps ratcheting up pressure on the FARC guerrillas, it’s rolling out a new ad campaign ...

Colombian paramilitary leader sentenced in Miami to 33 years for drug trafficking

A Colombian paramilitary leader was sentenced to 33 years in Miami federal court after pleading guilty to c...

Space exploration

A long mission to ‘Mars’ for Colombian man

While the future of U.S. manned space flight in doubt, one Colombian is coming back from ‘Mars.’

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...

THE WASHINGTON POST

Ecuadoran town a hub for drug-running rebels, Colombia says

Authorities in neighboring Colombia contend that the Ecuadorean border town of Puerto Nuevo is the thriving...

KCJA

Colombian blogs use acid humor to reflect polarization

Whether they criticize President Uribe or his opponents, bloggers from Bogotá and other cities employ irrev...