HAITI

Haiti prime minister nominee is a political survivor

Jean-Max Bellerive, who has learned to navigate Haiti's tricky political currents while serving in 10 admin...

CUBA

Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez detained, beaten on way to march

Cuba's best-known blogger Yoani Sanchez said state security officials seized and assaulted her in an effort...

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

Dominican Republic town blames U.S. firm for birth defects

Latin Grammys: Calle 13 dominates with 5 awards

Subversive reggaetoneros Calle 13 were the big winners at the 10th Latin Grammy Awards on Thursday night, w...

U.S. SENATE | HONDURAS POLICY

Senator critical of Honduras handling won't keep nominees in limbo

An outspoken critic of the Obama administration's handling of the crisis in Honduras late Thursday dropped ...

HONDURAS

Deal to restore Manuel Zelaya in Honduras at risk

Supporters of ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya say lawmakers are stalling efforts to bring him back ...

Man appears alive at own funeral in Brazil

A Brazilian bricklayer reportedly killed in a car crash shocked his mourning family by showing up alive at ...

GUATEMALA

Samaritans gather aid for drought-hit Guatemala

10TH LATIN GRAMMY AWARDS

Latin Grammys aim to bring Latin music to the mainstream

CENTRAL AMERICA

In Nicaragua, tensions flare amid power quest

Pro-government demonstrators rocked the U.S. Embassy as opposition leaders complained the president is unde...

Irish volunteers come together to build a new community in Haiti

260 Irish volunteers are pouring their sweat and money into building homes for hundreds of impoverished Hai...

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

U.S. expresses outrage over `assault' on Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez

The U.S. State Department has told Cuba it deplores last week's ``assault'' on blogger Yoani Sánchez...

CUBA

Cuba's blogosphere has developed a sharper edge

Cuba's blogosphere has taken on a decidedly harsher face in recent months, an act of online defiance in the...

TRAVEL TO CUBA

More Democrats oppose lifting Cuban travel ban

The bill to lift the ban on travel to Cuba could be in peril as more Democrats say they are against it.

CUBA

Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez detained, beaten on way to march

Cuba's best-known blogger Yoani Sanchez said state security officials seized and assaulted her in an effort...

Cuban crewmen stuck in Africa after ship begins to list

Sixteen Cuban crewmen were stranded Thursday in a backwater African port, with little cash and owed up to 1...

CUBA

Miami sports agent who aided in defections freed from jail

Juan Ignacio Hernández Nodar, a Miami sports agent who served 13 years for trying to help Cuban base...

CUBA

Czechs who insulted Castros to be tried

Two tourists will be tried on a variety of charges stemming from a March scuffle at Havana's airport.

TRADE

Cuban spending on U.S. food may decline

Cuba's government is estimated to spend less than $590 million on American food in 2009 -- down at least 32...

UNITED NATIONS

U.N. again condemns U.S. embargo of Cuba

The vote was 187-3, with two abstentions, as the United Nations once again denounced the U.S. embargo of Cuba.

Cubans fear more gov't control of farmers markets

The habanero peppers, oranges and peanuts cost more at Cuba's free-market "agros" - farmers markets where v...

MIAMI BEACH

Cuba is focus of conference

Charles Shapiro, the senior advisor for economic initiatives in the State Department's Bureau of Western H...

New prime minister confirmed by lawmakers in Haiti

Lawmakers overwhelmingly gave final approval to Jean-Max Bellerive as Haiti's new prime minister Tuesday, m...

HAITI

Growth seen for Haiti, Guyana

Storm-battered Haiti and Guyana are the only Caribbean nations to project economic growth this year.

HAITI

Haiti prime minister nominee is a political survivor

Jean-Max Bellerive, who has learned to navigate Haiti's tricky political currents while serving in 10 admin...

Nominee for Haitian PM clears first hurdle

Haitian senators have taken a key first step toward replacing the prime minister they ousted a week ago.

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

Dominican Republic town blames U.S. firm for birth defects

Irish volunteers come together to build a new community in Haiti

260 Irish volunteers are pouring their sweat and money into building homes for hundreds of impoverished Hai...

HAITI

Haiti calm after firing of Prime Minister Michčle Pierre-Louis

The streets of Haiti were calm after the firing of Prime Minister Michčle Pierre-Louis and her government, ...

REACTION IN SOUTH FLORIDA

In S. Florida, Haitian PM's dismissal met with fears, little surprise

The dismissal of Miche`le Pierre-Louis came as no surprise to many of South Florida's Haitian leaders...

Haiti's president turns to Cabinet for new PM

Haiti's president turned Friday to a member of his former prime minister's freshly dissolved Cabinet to rep...

HAITI

Haitian Senate fires prime minister

In a marathon session, Haitian senators voted to oust Prime Minister Michele Pierre-Louis.

Police: Small plane crash in St. Croix kills 3

A small plane crashed into a field and burst into flames shortly after taking off Thursday in St. Croix, ki...

Alarma bélica resuena en horas bajas para Uribe y Chávez

El nuevo estallido de la tensión entre Colombia y Venezuela, con alarmas bélicas incluidas, c...

Venezuela: swine flu contained among Indians

Venezuela's health minister says an outbreak of swine flu among isolated Amazon Indians has been contained.

EEUU, bajo perfil ante tensión entre Caracas y Bogotá

El gobierno de Obama quiere distanciar el conflicto de la firma del reciente acuerdo militar con Bogot&aacu...

Brazil, US urge talks in Venezuela, Colombia spat

Brazil and the U.S. urged Colombia and Venezuela on Tuesday to talk out their differences after Venezuelan ...

Venezuela, Russia to boost technology cooperation

Venezuela and Russia say they are working on a series of agreements for Moscow to provide the South America...

Alerta bélica de Chávez crea rechazo y acusaciones en América Latina

El alerta del presidente venezolano, Hugo Chávez, en torno a la posibilidad de una guerra con Colom...

Chavez to troops: Prepare for war with Colombia

President Hugo Chavez on Sunday ordered Venezuela's military to prepare for a possible armed conflict with ...

El agua es un lujo para los caraqueños

Mientras que una sequía ha puesto a Caracas bajo un estricto racionamiento de agua por primera vez e...

Venezuelans struggling with water shortages

While a drought has put Caracas under widespread water rationing for the first time in years, for Venezuela...

Oposición acusa a ministro chavista

La oposición venezolana denunció el viernes que el nuevo ministro de Energía Elé...

Chávez sube la parada a Uribe

La tensión entre Colombia y Venezuela aumentó tras la firma de un acuerdo militar entre Bogot...

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 Pazmińo 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...