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In a recent visit to Colombia, USAID’s Rajiv Shah talked to The Miami Herald about working in a region sometimes hostile to the agency’s goals.
Guatemalan strongman Ríos Montt’s conviction for genocide was cause for celebration and concern in the Central American nation. The cheer is being replaced by a new worry: drug violence.
Authorities in the Turks and Caicos have dropped charges against a retired Florida neurosurgeon and Texas businesswoman arrested at an airport after a bullet was found in their luggage.
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Military officials would not comment on whether the current 102 hunger strikers include alleged 9/11 conspi...
Manuel Cuesta Morua says Cuban blacks need affirmative action to catch up to whites.
A new United Nations assessment of how to reduce risk after a disaster calls for closer cooperation between...
Like many teenage girls in Cuba, Lydia Hortensia de Castroverde yearned to be a quinceañera — t...
More Caribbean youth to have access to post-secondary education thanks to help from Canada.
Guantánamo prison staff members were tube-feeding 30 of the 100 hunger-striking captives on Wednesday,...
Human rights organizations are asking Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel to order troops to abandon the pract...
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Read all of The Miami Herald's Staff coverage of the malnutrition crisis faced by Haitian children
The Miami Herald's coverage of the 2008 Americas Conference, which drew hundreds of participants from the h...
For generations, Vodou practitioners in rural Haiti have sworn by the mystic qualities of Jatropha, an indi...
The titles of her songs speak volumes: Wicked Men, Low Blow, Pure Pain and Hypocrite. Then there's her mega...
With oil enriching Venezuela's coffers, President Hugo Chávez is lavishing billions on other countries, boo...
The illegal battery smelter so contaminated children here that some of them have been found with what are s...
In the wake of rising food prices, Haiti turns to agriculture production that experts say requires resource...
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Part of the decline could be the result of devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy in agriculture-rich Easter...
If you are a Cuban balsero and were spotted in the Florida Straits by a Brothers to the Rescue plane betwee...
Military officials would not comment on whether the current 102 hunger strikers include alleged 9/11 conspi...
Manuel Cuesta Morua says Cuban blacks need affirmative action to catch up to whites.
Like many teenage girls in Cuba, Lydia Hortensia de Castroverde yearned to be a quinceañera — t...
The idea came from a comedian, but it’s far from being a joke.
The Cuban cabinet hears about irregularities in international deals and the growing problem of gasoline the...
A frequent Cuban hunger striker and dissident arrived Sunday in Miami ahead of Cuban Independence Day, as p...
Elsa Morejón, wife of Cuban dissident Oscar Elías Biscet, said the Cuban government is “wo...
Pope Francis exchanged a brief greeting Wednesday with Cuban dissident Berta Soler, leader of the Ladies in...
Haitian President Michel Martelly defended his administration Tuesday as he marked two years in office, poi...
Attorney Reynold Georges showed up with a judge and a police officer on a recent afternoon at Camp Acra, a ...
Two years after his surprise return from seven years in exile, former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Arist...
Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide emerged from months of seclusion for a second straight day ...
Pending approval, JetBlue Airways plans to offer flights to Haiti. Meanwhile, IBC Airways is teaming up wit...
Ex-Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, little seen in public since his return home two years ago, was...
Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide made a rare public appearance Wednesday and thousands of su...
Haitians have been fleeing their troubled country for years, trying to reach the U.S. or other Caribbean is...
Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide is trying to rebuild his political party as the Caribbean n...
The kids have found a haven in Zanmi Beni Children’s Home (‘Blessed Friends’ in Creole).
Venezuelan authorities have released a dissident ex-general who was jailed on charges of inciting unrest af...
Stern-looking soldiers clutching assault rifles wave down the beat-up Chevy Caprice entering this sprawling...
Venezuelans scrambled to stock up on toilet paper Thursday as fears of a bathroom emergency spread despite ...
Venezuela's biggest food company on Monday hit back at President Nicolas Maduro's claims that it's to blame...
A lawyer representing the convicted terrorist known as "Carlos the Jackal" is urging Venezuela's government...
A Venezuelan civil rights group has asked the International Criminal Court to investigate alleged physical ...
Venezuela's government has granted U.S. diplomats access to a California man who is being held while he awa...
A portrait of Hugo Chavez stared down from a black metal frame as Jose Pastano sipped coffee after dinner w...
Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro and his Argentine counterpart and ally, Cristina Fernandez, announced new ...
U.S. diplomats have been given no access to a California man held in Venezuela for nearly two weeks in what...
Venezuela's top security official announced Sunday the government of President Nicolas Maduro will use the ...
The nuns' habits didn't seem to be habitual garb for three young women so Colombian police asked them to st...
The accused drug kingpin, designated by the U.S. government as one of the “most significant” ...
The Inter-American Development Bank concludes its 54th annual meeting with a call for more reforms to spur ...
‘Isla Presidencial,’ an Internet cartoon that pillories politicos, may be at a crossroads now...
Ecuador today will begin imposing stiff tariffs on hundreds of Colombian imports, the latest round in a fes...
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