Medical flights slow for sick kids

Bureaucratic paperwork is delaying medical flights from Haiti to the United States and is endangering child...

COLOMBIA

Paramilitaries, successors still terrorizing Colombia

A reemergence of the paramilitaries, and their successors, are terrorizing Colombia anew.

REBUILDING HAITI

Some having doubts about Haiti aid plans

THE ECONOMY

Haitian economy struggles to find a new balance

Clear way for Manuel Noriega's extradition to France, U.S. asks

The U.S. government is asking a Miami federal judge to clear the way for former Panamanian dictator Manuel ...

Haiti President Rene Preval quietly focuses on 'managing country'

As he seeks to lead his country from relief to reconstruction, René Préval faces a challenge ...

Donors fly Haitian kids to U.S. hospital

Three children in critical need of care were airlifted out of Haiti on Sunday morning to a hospital in Phil...

MIAMI RIVER

Channel to play big role in Haiti

The rebuilding of Haiti is expected to turn the Miami River into a waterway of hope, helping to get heavy g...

South Florida key to recovery in Haiti, but road is long and uncharted

Hours after the earthquake in Haiti, South Florida emerged as a natural staging area for an epic relief eff...

MEDICAL CARE

After medical treatment for Haiti quake victims, who in U.S. pays the bill?

U.S. medical costs are the last thing personnel on the ground here and in Haiti want to think about, but ev...

ARGENTINA

Central Bank president quits

Argentina's Central Bank chief resigned Friday, saying he could do no more to protect the nominally indepen...

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 | HUNGER STRIKE

Cuban hunger striker's condition reportedly worse

The mother of a Cuban political prisoner on a hunger strike said her son's condition has worsened and that ...

MIAMI | LECH WALESA

Lech Walesa in Miami: Changes will soon come to Cuba

Solidarity leader and Nobel Peace prize winner Lech Walesa said political change is coming to Cuba and the ...

Economic crises, `spy' capers among obstacles to change

An Obama administration that made several friendly gestures toward Cuba, hoping to at least warm 50 years o...

Concerts by Cuban musicians still stir debate among exiles

Although there has been less of a public outcry than in the past, the return to Miami of controversial Cuba...

Los Van Van celebrates Jose Marti with Key West performance

It is not that Juan Formell, the leader of Los Van Van, Cuba's most famous dance band, doesn't have any pol...

Two prominent Cuban exile leaders dismiss conference in Havana

The president of the Cuban American National Foundation and a director of the Cuban Liberty Council ridicul...

CUBA

Support for U.S. programs that help Cuba running on empty

The money helps support dissidents, independent journalists and other peaceful civil society groups.

MEDICAL CARE

Cuban doctors help treat injured

Some Cuban doctors already were working in Haiti. More have joined them, but they're struggling with a lack...

CUBA

U.S. offers Cuba medical supplies for Haiti

The U.S. government has offered medical supplies to Cuban doctors in earthquake-devastated Haiti, but the C...

ANALYSIS

Steps to transition of post-Raul Castro Cuba envisioned

In a study on Cuba's future, an expert said leader Raúl Castro likely would strengthen the military ...

CUBA

Activist: 20 patients at Havana Psychiatric Hospital died in cold

A human rights activist said at least 20 patients at the Havana Psychiatric Hospital died from hypothermia ...

DISASTER IN HAITI

In Haiti's tent cities, quake `mayors' fill a void

Haitians have created leadership structures in the camps to provide aid, medical care and other needs of fe...

Doctor says vendor may have been in rubble 27 days

The tale seems dubious: that a rice vendor survived 27 days trapped under the rubble of a flea market follo...

Haiti parents testify they gave kids to Americans

Parents of some of the children who 10 U.S. missionaries tried to take out of Haiti after its catastrophic ...

Haiti raises earthquake's death toll to 230,000

Haiti's government has raised the death toll for the Jan. 12 earthquake to 230,000 from 212,000 and says mo...

A glance at developments 28 days after Haiti quake

A look at the latest developments in Haiti on Tuesday, 28 days after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake devastated ...

RESTORATION

2 firms picked for emergency tasks

The U.S. Agency for International Development has given two assignments for Haiti-related work to two beltw...

DISASTER IN HAITI

U.S. firms want part in Haiti cleanup

Who will remove the debris in Haiti remains to be seen, but Pompano Beach-based AshBritt is pushing for a m...

UN: some Haitian hospitals are charging patients

The United Nations warned Monday that it will cut off shipments of free medicine to Haitian hospitals that ...

Health crisis in Haiti enters a deadly new phase

Fourteen-month-old Abigail Charlot survived Haiti's cataclysmic earthquake but not its miserable aftermath....

Haiti parents testify they gave kids to Americans

A lawyer for 10 U.S. missionaries detained in Haiti says parents of the children they're suspected of kidna...

Bahamas to return migrants to quake-ravaged Haiti

More than five dozen Haitian migrants detained as they sailed north through the Bahamas will be returned di...

Pro-Chavez lawmakers plan to punish dissidents

Legislators allied with President Hugo Chavez said Tuesday they plan to adopt rules that will punish any la...

Venezuela declares emergency amid energy crisis

President Hugo Chavez has signed a decree declaring an energy emergency in Venezuela to facilitate his gove...

Chavez hosts new radio show _ at any moment

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has launched a new radio program in which he can take to the airwaves at a...

Venezuelan police break up anti-Chavez protest

Police used tear gas, plastic bullets and water cannons to scatter hundreds of students protesting against ...

Chavez turns to Cubans for help with energy crisis

President Hugo Chavez has turned to his friends in Cuba for help in tackling Venezuela's energy crisis, dra...

OAS commission urges calm amid Venezuela protests

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights raised concerns Tuesday over clashes between supporters and o...

Venezuela deports suspected drug smugglers

Venezuela deported alleged major drug traffickers to the U.S. and France on Tuesday, the country's top secu...

Venezuela denies violation of Colombia's airspace

Venezuela denies one of its military helicopters strayed into Colombia's airspace this week.

Venezuelan police fire tear gas at protesters

Police fired tear gas to chase off thousands of students demonstrating in the capital Thursday, a fifth day...

Bogota rejects alleged violation of its airspace

Colombia claims a Venezuelan military helicopter violated its airspace, and the government of President Alv...

VENEZUELAN FRAUD CASE

Hugo Chávez drafted banker in fraud case to fix Cuba's economy, insiders say

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez asked a Venezuelan banker, now accused of fraud, to help revive the...

COLOMBIA

Mother wants U.S. military to allow justice for girl's rape

The alleged rape of a girl at the hands of a U.S. officer on a Colombian military base has rekindled the an...

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...

LOS ANGELES TIMES

The FARC isn't finished

The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, the oldest and strongest terrorist group in North or South Amer...

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...

THE WASHINGTON POST

Scandals surround Colombia's Alvaro Uribe

For weeks after the news broke, Colombians knew only that the secret police had spied on Supreme Court judg...

THE WASHINGTON POST

Colombia orders return of stolen farmland

What happened in northwestern Colombia more than a decade ago might easily have been forgotten. Illegal mil...

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...

LOS ANGELES TIMES

A key to Colombia peace: Reintegrating ex-fighters

Programs that help former FARC rebels and paramilitary troops reenter society is seen as crucial to the nat...

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR

Colombian drugs behind Guinea-Bissau murders?

The murder of the president and the Army chief on Monday raises questions about the nature of the instabili...

EFE

Mexican student visited other FARC camps (Spanish)

El ex director de Inteligencia del Ejército ecuatoriano Mario Pazmiño confirmó hoy a Efe que informes y fot...

LOS ANGELES TIMES

West Africa gets help fighting Latam drug traffickers

Aware that law enforcement agencies of poor West African nations are no match for drug cartels using the re...

LOS ANGELES TIMES

Put pressure on Honduras

De facto, interim or congressionally installed -- no matter the qualifier -- Roberto Micheletti is not the ...

WALL STREET JOURNAL

Why Honduras Sent Zelaya Away

In a perfect world former Honduran President Manuel Zelaya would be in jail in his own country right now, a...

THE WASHINGTON POST

Double standards on Latin America

As the Obama administration and a host of Latin American governments campaigned to reverse the coup in Hond...

THE WASHNGTON POST

Oscar Arias: Fuel for a Coup

The Perils of Latin America's Oversized Militaries

THE WASHINGTON POST

EDITORIAL | A Chance for Honduras

The best way to defeat deposed president Manuel Zelaya lies in allowing his return.

BLOOMBERG

Cuba keeps ill writer jailed as Norway awards prize

A few weeks ago, Normando Hernandez Gonzalez got the kind of news that usually prompts cheers and emotion-f...

NEWSWEEK

The Havana obsession; Why all eyes are on a bankrupt island

Bill Clinton and George W. Bush recently had a face-to-face debate in Canada to discuss current affairs. Th...

AKRON BEACON JOURNAL

Obama has many options to change course on Cuba

The Obama administration has made an excellent first step to eliminate some restrictions on travel to Cuba,...

COHA

Commentary: Cuban oil: Havana's potential geo-political bombshell

As the Obama administration slowly inches towards normalizing its relations with Cuba, pressure is mounting...

INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY

Hugo Chavez's war on free trade in Peru

What does Venezuela's Hugo Chavez call a nation that develops peacefully, embraces markets, promotes proper...

THE WEEKLY STANDARD

Dictatorships and Double Standards

In all my years as an observer of international affairs, I have seldom seen the Organization of American St...

THE WASHNGTON POST

In deeply split Honduras, a potentially combustible situation

To many poor Hondurans, deposed president Manuel "Mel" Zelaya was a trailblazing ally who scrapped school t...

THE WASHINGTON POST

An American in Honduras -- Rich man, poor plan

Allen Andersson made a bundle, then made things happen -- for a while -- in Honduras

THE WASHINGTON POST

For U.S. and OAS, new challenges to Latin American democracy

Bayonet-wielding soldiers are not the biggest threat to democracy in Latin America, where more than a dozen...

LOS ANGELES TIMES

Tensions mount as Honduras defies OAS

Honduras' new leadership ignores OAS deadline to restore Manuel Zelaya, and threatens to arrest him if he r...

THE NEW YORK TIMES

Mexican cartels lure American teens as killers

When he was finally caught, Rosalio Reta told detectives here that he had felt a thrill each time he killed...

WALL STREET JOURNAL

The Mexican Drug Lord Who Got Away

Mexican drug lord Joaquín Guzmán Loera has become a narco folk hero, and each year that Mexico is unable to...

THE WASHINGTON POST

In Mexico, the U.S. Downturn Hits Home

Remittances sent home by Mexicans in the United States are the second-largest source of legal foreign reven...

THE WASHINGTON POST

In Juarez, A Trail of Drugs and Violence

Assailants have been targeting addicts in Ciudad Juarez for the past year. In August, eight men were killed...

THE WASHINGTON POST

Mexico targets drug trade in Michoacan

Since Mexican President Felipe Calderon sent troops into his home state of Michoacan in 2006 to fight drug ...

THE NEW YORK TIMES

In Mexican city, drug war ills slip into shadows

The reminders of Nuevo Laredo’s violent days still mar its streets — bullet holes and the impacts of grenad...

THE WASHINGTON POST

Hugo Chávez raising pressure on Globovision

In recent weeks, officials in Venezuela -- where the government controls a media apparatus devoted to glowi...