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• Murder rates around the world

  Interactive map of world murder rates by country
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  HAITI: TWO YEARS LATER

  Haiti, South Florida remember quake victims on anniversary

  In Haiti and South Florida, victims of Haiti’s 7.0-earthquake were remembered Thursday with reflections and prays.
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  HAITI: TWO YEARS LATER

  Thousands of Haitians march demanding jobs, housing

  As Haitians prepare to mark the second year since a devastating 7.0-earthquake, officials and diplomats stress jobs
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  CUBA

  Iran’s president visits Havana during Latin American swing

  Ahmadinejad agrees with Fidel Castro that capitalism is on its way out
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  Guantanamo

  Guantánamo Bay prison camps turn 10

  Prisoners declared sit-ins and hunger strikes on the eve of the 10th anniversary of the detention center; prison spokeswoman says they’ll be tolerated so long as they’re peaceful
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  Ocean exploration

  Key Largo divers discover sub in Mediterranean, solve WWII mystery

  A Key Largo-based not-for-profit ocean foundation has uncovered a British World War II submarine that sank 70 years ago in the Mediterranean Sea.
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  Ahmadinejad Trip

  Iran, Venezuela call U.S. a global danger

  Amid fresh concerns about Iran’s nuclear intentions and a growing diplomatic squabble, Iran’s president began a four-day Latin American trip in Venezuela.
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  Haiti: Two years later

  Haiti experiences progress, exasperation 2 years after quake

  Two years after a devastating 7.0 earthquake in Haiti, seeds of progress are starting to take root. But the troubled country still has a long way to go.

• Ahmadinejad Visit

  Iran leader’s ‘tour of tyrants’ raises concern in U.S.

  Facing a new round of international trade sanctions, Iran President Mahmud Ahmadinejad is kicking off a four-nation Latin America tour that is raising concerns in Washington.

• CUBA

  Former spanish ambassador to Cuba to head relations with Latin America

  Jesus Gracia Aldaz was ambassador in Havana when Cuban government jailed 75 dissidents
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  Cuba’s Year of Change

  Cuba stacks up the building blocks of a new economy

  The pace of economic reforms has picked up as Cuba seeks to move more people off government payrolls in an effort to boost its economy.
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  CUBA

  Repression still the rule, but Cuba sees year of change

  Now you can get a loan, buy a house and — maybe soon — travel abroad more easily. But the Castro government has no desire to ease its authoritarian ways.

• Jamaica Elections | news analysis

  ‘Dudus’ Coke scandal doomed Jamaica’s ruling party

  Jamaicans at home and abroad hope the return of opposition leader Portia Simpson Miller as prime minister will help improve relations with Jamaica’s diaspora and jumpstart the country’s stagnant economy.

• Extremists' jeers at 8-year-old the last straw for Israelis

  Thousands of Israelis poured into this Jerusalem suburb Tuesday night in a protest against religious extremists who've targeted women and enforced strict division of the sexes in public life.
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  CUBA

  Spain’s new foreign minister has visited Cuba many times, favored engagement and patience

  José Manuel García-Margallo has visited the island 11 times, advocated engagement and patience

• U.S. Senate race

  In Senate bid, Connie Mack no longer boasts of getting budget pork

  Republican Senate candidate Connie Mack has a complicated relationship with federal spending: He voted for billions of budget ‘earmarks,’ but now supports a moratorium

• In My Opinion

  Mexico’s drug cartels are no “terrorist insurgency”

  Like in every election season, when legislators compete to make headlines, there are some bizarre ideas being discussed in the U.S. Congress these days. One of the craziest — and most dangerous — is a Republican bill that calls for U.S. “counter-insurgency tactics” to combat an alleged “terrorist insurgency” in Mexico.

• Colombia

  Study shows shrinking power of Colombian cocaine trade

  Drug trade isn’t the economic driver many suspected, according to the report.
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  CUBA

  Congress may tighten travel, remittances to Cuba

  A move by Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart to tighten Cuban American travel to the island nation has a chance of being passed in Congress.
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  In My Opinion

  Zombies are heading to Miami

  In some quarters of Miami, the talk movie of the moment is not the American remake of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, but the crude and bloody Cuban horror film Juan de los Muertos (Juan of the Dead), a story about the day Havana wakes up to an invasion of the living dead.

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