Larry Habegger

BRAZIL Crime against tourists is increasing in Rio de Janeiro. At least 22 tourists were robbed the week of Aug. 14-19 despite increased police patrols after the daylight murder of...

CARIBBEAN Montserrat's Soufriere Hills volcano came to life in 1995, forcing more than half the island's 12,000 residents to flee. Then in 1997 an eruption buried the capital city, Plymouth....

BRAZIL Rampaging criminal gangs attacked police posts, banks and city buses in a four-day spree in Sao Paulo state that produced 81 deaths, including 39 police or security officers, 38...

ALGERIA The U.S. State Department warned that travel in rural and remote areas of Algeria is risky because of inadequate security. However, Algiers and most urban centers have not had...

ARGENTINA Counterfeit money can be a problem here, especially in Buenos Aires. Taxi drivers are the most common distributors of bogus currency, giving fake 10s and 20s when making change...

ECUADOR Demonstrations and other protests in Quito and Guayaquil are likely until about Dec. 1 because of final negotiations of the Andean Free Trade Agreement and a government request of...

ENGLAND A radical Muslim cleric based in London told a Portuguese magazine recently that the city would almost certainly be hit by a major terrorist attack because he knew of...

VENEZUELA A general strike against President Hugo Chavez that began Dec. 2 has produced severe shortages of goods and services, including fuel supplies, and has caused conflict and violence. HONG...

The government declared a dengue fever emergency throughout the country July 25 when a new strain of the disease was identified in a patient. This new strain raises the risks...

Through the 1980s Honduras was known in the United States mostly as the staging ground for the Reagan administration's proxy war against the Sandinistas in neighboring Nicaragua. Scuba divers had...