Flights canceled due to Tropical Storm Chantal

Miami travelers heading to Haiti and the Dominican Republic will likely have to wait another day due to Tro...

Gallery owner seeks Cuba-Key West art swap

Key West gallery owner Nance Frank has launched a Web-based fundraising effort to pay for an artistic excha...

NSA

Amid growing spying scandal, US allies in region join chorus of discontent

Colombia, Chile and other longtime allies question alleged U.S. spying in Latin America.

HUNGER STRIKE

Rapper’s graphic video puts spotlight on Guantánamo forced-feeding at Ramadan

A London legal groups’s advocacy efforts expands with a video starring rapper Mos Def playing the role...

Confusion on Snowden acceptance of Venezuela offer

The WikiLeaks secret-spilling site on Tuesday said NSA leaker Edward Snowden has not yet formally accepted ...

Snowden

Snowden reported to accept asylum in Venezuela, maybe

A Russian lawmaker close to the Kremlin tweeted Tuesday that NSA leaker Edward Snowden had accepted asylum ...

NSA

New Snowden allegations rile Latin America

Citing classified NSA documents, Brazil’s O Globo newspaper reports that the United States was activ...

CUBA

Ladies in White resign over alleged State Security infiltrator

Several members have quit the group over its refusal to expell an alleged infiltrator from State Security

Colombia

Bogotá’s urban horsemen facing life without their steeds

South America’s second-largest city is trying to get almost 3,000 horse carts off the road.

IN THE COURTS

Lawyers argue Guantánamo captive so sick he should go home

Lawyers for a Sudanese captive who is obese and has been diagnosed as schizophrenic argue, in a novel habea...

HISPANIOLA

Haiti, Dominican Republic chicken war highlights trade inequities

A brewing ‘chicken war’ between the two nations of Hispaniola after a false bird-flu scare ha...

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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More Miami Herald Cuba coverage

More Miami Herald Cuba coverage

CUBA

Cuba’s food ration stores mark 50th anniversary

The ration card gives every Cuban a basic basket of food for less than $2 a month.

cuba

Cuba’s ex-prisons chief — accused of human-rights abuses — is back in the U.S.

Former prisons chief Crescencio Marino Rivero left Miami for Cuba after half a dozen dissidents accused him...

Gallery owner seeks Cuba-Key West art swap

Key West gallery owner Nance Frank has launched a Web-based fundraising effort to pay for an artistic excha...

CUBA

Ladies in White resign over alleged State Security infiltrator

Several members have quit the group over its refusal to expell an alleged infiltrator from State Security

Castro speech scolds islanders for bad behavior

Raul Castro spent the lion's share of a prominent speech Sunday scolding his countrymen for all kinds of ba...

CUBA

Cuban dissident picks up human rights prize in Europe — three years late

Guillermo Fariñas dedicates the Sakharov Prize to his mother, who saw him through his many hunger str...

In my opinion

Daniel Shoer Roth: U.S. gift to Cuban exiles abused

A walk on the beach to count my blessings led me to understand with greater clarity the polarized debate on...

CUBA

Report says Cuban economic growth hasn’t quickened despite reforms

The Council of Ministers got a report that Cuba’s economy will miss the goal of a 3.6 percent growt...

CUBA

U.S. says the number of visas issued in Havana increased significantly

The U.S. diplomatic mission in Havana says an increase in visa issued was due to stepped up interviews of ...

CUBA

US issues warning on driving in Cuba

The U.S. says reports suggest that highway crashes are the leading cause of accidental deaths in Cuba.

CUBA

Two groups of Cuban balseros arrive in Honduras and Cayman Islands

A boat carrying 32 Cubans was detained near Roatan and another with about 20 aboard docked in Cayman Islands.

Flights canceled due to Tropical Storm Chantal

Miami travelers heading to Haiti and the Dominican Republic will likely have to wait another day due to Tro...

Aristide university in Haiti to create law school

The university founded by former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide is opening a law school program i...

HISPANIOLA

Haiti, Dominican Republic chicken war highlights trade inequities

A brewing ‘chicken war’ between the two nations of Hispaniola after a false bird-flu scare ha...

Haiti sees big money reviving flagging tourism

The Club Indigo beach resort north of the Haiti capital was crowded with U.N. peacekeepers, aid workers, di...

Haiti Earthquake

Haiti sees big drop in quake homeless

The number of people still homeless in Haiti from the country’s massive Jan. 12, 2010 earthquake con...

Haiti

Fish cages bring economic hope to Haitians

Haiti’s overfished lakes and oceans haven’t produced any bounty for the country’s fish...

Caricom

Caribbean Community leaders return to Trinidad to mark 40 years

Caribbean Community leaders on Wednesday begin four-day summit in Trinidad and Tobago Wednesday paying trib...

Haiti

New Marriott under construction in Haiti getting financial boost

A new Marriott hotel in Haiti is getting nearly a $30 million financial boost from a member of the World Ba...

Second grader from Davie donates first communion gifts to Haiti

Caribbean

Coast Guard: South Florida relatives fueling Haitian migrant smuggling

Family members in South Florida are possibly behind a dangerous new trend in the Caribbean: the smuggling ...

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...

Venezuela announces hard-currency auction

Venezuela's central bank says that on Friday it will begin selling dollars at auction for only the second t...

Snowden

Snowden reported to accept asylum in Venezuela, maybe

A Russian lawmaker close to the Kremlin tweeted Tuesday that NSA leaker Edward Snowden had accepted asylum ...

Confusion on Snowden acceptance of Venezuela offer

The WikiLeaks secret-spilling site on Tuesday said NSA leaker Edward Snowden has not yet formally accepted ...

Venezuela confirms Snowden asylum request

Venezuela's president says that his country has received an asylum request from NSA leaker Edward Snowden.

Venezuela detects embezzlement from Chinese fund

Venezuela's president says that five officials with a development fund financed by China have been arrested...

Venezuela says no contact yet with Snowden

Venezuela's foreign minister says his country has not yet been in contact with NSA leaker Edward Snowden, d...

In Venezuelan capital, a 'plague' of motorcycles

Ronald Alvarez was driving in chaotic, bumper-to-bumper traffic when he heard a throaty buzz and insistent ...

Media

New television station aims at Venezuelan expats

Telecaribe Miami plans to debut on local digital broadcast television this summer.

Venezuela detains ex-governor in corruption case

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro says a former governor from his ruling party has been detained on alle...

Latin America

A mixed year ahead for Latin American economies

Brazilian economist predicts Brazil will have to make big adjustments in its economic model.

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...

Colombia

Bogotá’s urban horsemen facing life without their steeds

South America’s second-largest city is trying to get almost 3,000 horse carts off the road.

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