http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2008 MiamiHerald.com Americas 60 Thu, 22 May 2008 14:03:04 EDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/1237/story/408854.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1237/story/408854.html Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:38 EST Colombia and the FARC guerrillas have been in the news lately because of the Colombian military's cross-border raid into Ecuador that killed a top guerrilla leader. <p/>For the latest information on the issues, click on the headline above. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/249822.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/249822.html Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:41 EDT Inspired by a biannual baroque festival and the legacy of missionaries, young people join choirs and take up the violin and Vivaldi in parishes across the country's eastern lowlands. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/261707.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/261707.html Fri, 05 Oct 2007 15:02 EDT Seaweed found at an inland settlement in Chile confirms that the village of Monte Verde is one of the oldest inhabited sites in the Americas and demonstrates that residents had extensive contact with the coastline, 50 miles away. http://www.miamiherald.com/949/story/469766.html http://www.miamiherald.com/949/story/469766.html Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:04 EDT In a region where nationalism often trumps cross-border cooperation, the engineering marvel known as Itaipu was a triumph of teamwork: Paraguay and its giant neighbor, Brazil, collaborated on a colossal project to reroute the mighty Parana River, dam its waters and create the world's largest hydroelectric plant. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/543121.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/543121.html Thu, 22 May 2008 13:13 EDT Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Pérez Roque blasted the United States Thursday, saying Washington has yet to answer to accusations that its top diplomat in Havana helped ferry money to dissidents on the island. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/542171.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/542171.html Thu, 22 May 2008 07:01 EDT When Martha Beatriz Roque uses an Internet cafe in Cuba, not only does the government read all the dissident's electronic missives, but they dust the keyboard for fingerprints. http://www.miamiherald.com/915/story/542804.html http://www.miamiherald.com/915/story/542804.html Thu, 22 May 2008 07:14 EDT Indians fish from canoes along the curves of this Amazon tributary and tend manioc crops near the site of a proposed dam talked about for decades - but now pushing forward under Brazil's multi-billion-dollar construction spree. http://www.miamiherald.com/915/story/542568.html http://www.miamiherald.com/915/story/542568.html Thu, 22 May 2008 01:39 EDT Doctors have ordered Costa Rican President Oscar Arias not to talk for a month due to a cyst on his vocal cords, his office said Wednesday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/543157.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/543157.html Thu, 22 May 2008 13:53 EDT On weekday afternoons at the Claudia boutique shoe store across from Havana's famed sea wall, ladies jockey for their turn to purchase spiked sandals and sequined purses. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/542843.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/542843.html Thu, 22 May 2008 07:47 EDT Imagine if the United States captured the laptop computer in Iraq containing encrypted e-mails detailing Iranian financial and military support for insurgents. Now stop imagining and consider a very real scenario in this hemisphere. Just substitute Colombia for the United States and Venezuela for Iran. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/542847.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/542847.html Thu, 22 May 2008 08:01 EDT U.S. policy toward Cuba, set in stone for decades and long relegated to the far reaches of presidential campaign debate, is enjoying a brief appearance on center stage this week. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/542156.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/542156.html Thu, 22 May 2008 03:03 EDT Now it's not just Cuba's Raúl Castro who will allow cellular phones: George W. Bush will, too. In recognition of Cuban Solidarity Day, President Bush announced Wednesday that he would tinker with existing regulations to permit Cuban-Americans to send cellular phones to their relatives in Cuba, now that Castro has lifted the ban that prevented Cubans from owning them. http://www.miamiherald.com/915/story/542454.html http://www.miamiherald.com/915/story/542454.html Thu, 22 May 2008 00:04 EDT Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez accused the United States on Wednesday of using anti-drug flights for spying - and said that fighter jets are ready to defend Venezuela's sovereignty. http://www.miamiherald.com/915/story/542236.html http://www.miamiherald.com/915/story/542236.html Wed, 21 May 2008 20:59 EDT A 73-year-old Argentine man who fathered two children with a young daughter he kept as his sexual prisoner will serve 16 years in prison himself. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/columnists/andres_oppenheimer/story/542435.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/columnists/andres_oppenheimer/story/542435.html Thu, 22 May 2008 03:01 EDT Question of the day: Why hasn't 34-country Organization of American States chief José Miguel Insulza called for the regional group's investigation into the thousands of Interpol-verified computer files indicating that Venezuela and Ecuador are actively supporting Colombia's FARC guerrillas?