Signaling a policy shift, the Obama administration is now saying that Manuel Zelaya was responsible for his own ouster in Honduras -- and stopping short of calling for his return.
As ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya continued his campaign to be restored to office, many of his supporters were leaving Nicaraguan border towns for home.
With no answers on how to solve Cuba's tanking economy, government leaders postponed a crucial conference on the nation's future.
Colombia's claim that Venezuela supplied FARC guerrillas with grenade launchers prompted Hugo Chávez to pull his ambassador.
As hundreds of his followers lay sprawled on a gymnasium floor that has become their temporary home, ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya called for a fresh wave of protests Tuesday along the Nicaraguan-Honduran border to commemorate the one-month mark since he was toppled.
Honduras' political crisis is fast becoming an economic one, with Nicaraguan exports being held up in trucks.
Ousted President Manuel Zelaya wants the United States to take a stronger stand on the Honduran crisis.
Local leaders who defeated the president's candidates in last year's elections say Chavez is stripping them of resources and authority. A new law could give him still more power.
President Obama won't commit to allowing undocumented Haitians in the United States to stay, and says any changes to U.S.-Cuba policy may be a while in the making.
Ousted leader Manuel Zelaya briefly led a small group of supporters across the border into Honduras, but the standoff continued as security forces await his next move.
Security at the Honduran border with Nicaragua was stepped up as ousted leader Manuel Zelaya began his journey to reclaim the presidency.
Honduras reinforced its southern border with Nicaragua Thursday as the country's ousted president, Manuel Zelaya, said he will try to cross the frontier, possibly within hours or during the next few days.
In the 15 years since the bombing of the Argentine Jewish Mutual Aid Association here, the deadliest terrorist attack in this country’s history, the case has become a symbol of the failings of Argentina’s judicial system.
Venezuela is fast becoming a major hub for cocaine trafficking in the Western Hemisphere, according to a report written by the investigative arm of the U.S. Congress. The report from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office is sure to raise tensions between Venezuela and the U.S. at a delicate moment in the two countries' often testy relations.
Bayonet-wielding soldiers are not the biggest threat to democracy in Latin America, where more than a dozen presidents have been removed prematurely since 1990. In recent years, a crop of elected, authoritarian-minded leaders has packed courts with supporters, held dubious elections and curtailed press freedoms. Legislatures have also pushed the boundaries of democratic order, giving legal cover to "civilian coups" in which protest groups have forced the ouster of presidents.
Haiti's presidential campaign may be a year away, but at least one candidate and his supporters aren't wasting any time reaching out to the Haitian Diaspora and promoting his candidacy.
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, expected to visit the White House Monday, will encounter an administration pushing to expand its alliances in Latin America and increasingly worried about Colombia's dismal human rights record, Colombia experts say.
Despite the recent sharp rise in oil prices, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez last month expropriated 70 oil service companies in western Venezuela, putting some 10,000 Venezuelans out of work, turning local unions against him and forcing production cuts at important oilfields.
After declaring independence from the rest of Nicaragua in April, a group of indigenous activists from the Mosquito Coast readied a grand celebration to commemorate the occasion. Their feast would be ruined, however, when the regional government sent in the police to seize the main course.
For weeks after the news broke, Colombians knew only that the secret police had spied on Supreme Court judges, opposition politicians, activists and journalists. Suspicions swirled that the orders for the wiretapping, as well as general surveillance, had come from the presidential palace.
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