Missiles allegedly purchased by Colombian FARC guerrillas could pose a threat to U.S.-supplied helicopters used in the war against the rebels, experts said.
Conservative tycoon Sebastian Piñera won the second round of Chile's presidential election in part due to voter faith that he can revive the economy. Meanwhile, Brazil's economy is booming.
BARINAS, — Stretching over vast cattle estates at the foothills of the Andes, Barinas is known for two things: as the bastion of the family of President Hugo Chavez and as the setting for a terrifying surge in abductions, making it a contender for Latin America’s most likely place to get kidnapped.
The weekend ouster of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya showed just how easily Latin American countries can plunge into crises when their institutions prove too weak to resolve stand-offs between government branches, analysts say.
Reporting from Washington -- The United States lacks a coordinated strategy to stem the flow of weapons smuggled across its southern border, a failure that has fueled the rise of powerful criminal cartels and violence in Mexico, a government watchdog agency report has found.
June 4 (Bloomberg) -- Long before J.K. Rowling´s Harry Potter books mesmerized millions of readers, Gabriel García Márquez did the same with "One Hundred Years of Solitude."
In Central America, differences between the left and right political slant are increasingly unclear. So while El Salvador appears to have elected a leftist president and Panama seems to have elected a rightist, the two may not be that far apart in the way
CARACAS — President Hugo Chavez´s push to extend his sway in Latin America is waning amid low oil prices and disorder in Venezuela’s own energy industry.
There are many characteristics in Cuba that have not changed over a few generations. Some of the constants that have always existed are ever present humidity (mixed with smell of fresh tobacco in the air), the Casas de Trova in every major neighbourhood, and the sea water which is rolling in tune with clouds that bring to the island shore every type of imaginable rain. But for the current generation of Cubans, and for the foreigners as well, there has been one more constant pertaining to Cuba's image and that is the one of a Castro named Fidel, who was leading the country for the past 48 years.
At first, few believed the story that two brothers told about four unknown Indians who suddenly appeared to them one afternoon on the outskirts of their village.
