Gary Marx

It's not every day that you see 50 American volunteers dressed in T-shirts and shorts assembling a state-of-the art playground in the working-class neighborhood of Santa Amalia. But there they...

In a tiny garage, Julio Nava is belting out the lyrics to his newest songs that could propel him to superstardom. Tall, muscular and heavily tattooed, Nava looks every bit...

A top Venezuela diplomat Wednesday criticized a U.S. immigration judge's ruling that a militant Cuban exile accused of blowing up a Cuban airliner cannot be deported to Venezuela because he...

In a decision likely to provoke a storm of protest, a U.S. immigration judge has ruled that a militant Cuban exile accused of blowing up a Cuban airliner cannot be...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez is Latin America's greatest living writer, a man of startling originality whose "magical realism" style of prose earned him the 1982 Nobel Prize for literature. He is...

One by one, the grief-stricken mothers shuffled silently into the local prosecutor's office to provide a DNA sample to help identify more than 70 bodies unearthed from secret graves in...

Pilar Duran and Alex Polania are devout Catholics who have long equated abortion to murder but recently joined a growing campaign to ease Colombia's strict anti-abortion law. Their views on...

Jose Santiago remembers the day in early 1960 when a young Che Guevara, dressed in fatigues and trademark black beret, came to his family's new home for dinner. Like many...

The already-icy relationship between the U.S. and Venezuela chilled further Tuesday in the wake of religious broadcaster Pat Robertson's suggestion that the United States assassinate President Hugo Chavez. Venezuelan Vice...

In the harshest crackdown on dissent in two years, Cuban authorities have temporarily detained more than 50 opposition figures in recent weeks and encouraged government militants to disrupt opposition activities....