Colombia’s boom town
CARTAGENA, Colombia — Four giant cruise ships recently docked within hours of one another in this Spanish colonial port city and disgorged 6,000 foreign passengers. Most headed to Old Cartagena...
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Homebuilders face new headache in Venezuela
Home-building in Venezuela is not for the faint of heart. For starters, you have land seizures, squatters, double-digit inflation and socialist President Hugo Chavez's unveiled hostility to private enterprise. Now...
D.C., Caracas repair ties
In a potentially significant step toward repairing their tattered relationship, the United States and Venezuela have formally agreed to resume full diplomatic relations, the State Department announced Thursday. Department spokesman...
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Peru Dozens injured, killed in protests Police officers among dead in battle over natural resources LIMA -- The death toll from a bloody clash between police and indigenous protesters over...
More debris from jet discovered in Atlantic
Brazilian authorities said military aircraft on Wednesday located several more pieces of debris floating in the Atlantic near where an ill-fated Air France flight is believed to have crashed with...
A makeover for Medellin
Once the shadowy and violent domain of drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, Medellin has undergone a renaissance over the last decade due to enlightened civic policy and public works, offering government...
Hostage planners kept U.S. out of loop
Although the U.S. government was supposed to have final authority on any plan to rescue three U.S. contractors held by guerrillas, it was kept in the dark by the Colombian...
Ruse frees 15 Colombia hostages
Colombian soldiers tricked leftist guerrillas in a jungle camp into freeing 15 hostages, including a former presidential candidate and three U.S. military contractors, officials said Wednesday. Defense Minister Juan Manuel...
Haiti seen as traffickers’ paradise
Three men wearing wraparound sunglasses and gold chains leaned against their sport-utility vehicle at this remote border crossing with the Dominican Republic. As one of them muttered into a walkie-talkie,...
Iraq parliament bombed
An apparent suicide bombing inside the tightly guarded parliament building that killed two Sunni Arab legislators and six other people here Thursday struck at the heart of Iraq's struggling democracy...