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Argentine journalists, academics and ruling party lawmakers met Monday to challenge the conclusions of an international media group that Latin American leaders are exerting too much control over the press.
Latin American governments are increasingly intervening in the news business, creating and favoring official media, regulating content and distribution and using other legal methods to silence their critics, a newspaper group said Sunday.
A blunt-talking former guerrilla fell just short of a first-round victory in Uruguay's presidential election, according to results Monday, and his conservative opponents have united in hopes of leaping past him in a Nov. 29 runoff.
Leaders of a bloc of leftist Latin American governments urged the international community Saturday to reject the presidential election planned by Honduras' interim government next month.
Puerto Rican officials said Saturday they have canceled a concert featuring Grammy-winning band Calle 13 after the group's lead singer insulted the governor and other Latin American politicians during an MTV awards show.
Regions Bank has agreed to pay a $1 million penalty to settle a Securities and Exchange Commission complaint that it played a role in a long-term investment fraud that charged huge hidden fees and sales commissions to thousands of unwitting Latin American investors.
Spanish telecommunications company Telefonica said Thursday its second quarter net profit fell 6 percent from a year earlier due to higher taxes and lower revenues in recession-stricken Spain and Europe, offsetting a strong performance from the company's Latin American division.
Israel's foreign minister ran into controversy on the first day of a Latin American trip Tuesday when an official of Brazil's ruling party reportedly called him a "fascist."
A lawsuit seeking class-action status for hundreds of Latin American investors claims that a London-based insurance broker gave false assurances about the soundness of investments offered by financier R. Allen Stanford, now jailed on charges of operating a $7 billion offshore Ponzi scheme.
The coup that deposed the president of Honduras exposed the small leverage that even millions of dollars in aid and longtime military cooperation will buy.
The United States on Wednesday canceled more than $60 million in assistance to Nicaragua, citing concerns about democracy, rule of law and a free market economy in the Latin American nation now led by a former Marxist guerrilla leader.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Friday backed away from a direct debate with prominent critics a day after he invited Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa and other Latin American intellectuals to join him on live television this weekend.
The World Health Organization said Friday it will change the rules for declaring a swine flu pandemic, a virus the agency's chief called "sneaky" because of its ability to spread quickly from person to person and potentially mutate into a deadlier form.
A chartered Mexican plane headed to several Chinese cities Tuesday to collect up to 70 Mexicans quarantined over swine flu fears in what their president denounced as discrimination and one stranded traveler compared to a kidnapping.
The Obama administration is working to improve deteriorating U.S. relations with a number of Latin American nations to counter growing Iranian, Chinese and Russian influence in the Western Hemisphere, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday.
Hong Kong on Friday lifted its weeklong quarantine on a downtown hotel where a Mexican swine flu patient stayed, releasing some 280 guests and employees who had been isolated in the building.
Latin American nations may be slipping into recession and the Caribbean's tourism lifeblood may be drying up, but the region's economic crisis has been overshadowed by the political developments at a summit of the hemisphere's leaders.
President Barack Obama says he came to a summit of Latin American and Caribbean leaders to listen and learn about a region he'd never visited. On Saturday, Hugo Chavez gave him some reading material that the Venezuelan president thinks will help.
Confronting a security threat on the America's doorstep, President Barack Obama arrived Thursday in Mexico for a swift diplomatic mission to show solidarity on drugs and guns with a troubled neighbor — and to prove the U.S. is serious about the battle against trafficking.
Mexico's Congress opened a three-day debate Monday on the merits of legalizing marijuana for personal use, a policy backed by three former Latin American presidents who warned that a crackdown on drug cartels is not working.
Venezuela's president on Tuesday applauded President Barack Obama's promise to lead the world into a future free of nuclear weapons, and said he was open to working with the new American president.
Latin American stocks fell on Friday, ending the week largely even as investors weighed a U.S. Federal Reserve plan to buy up to $1 trillion in bonds to ease credit and boost growth.
Jim Bowden's final move as Washington Nationals general manager was his own resignation.
President Cristina Fernandez on Thursday summoned the U.S. ambassador to discuss the CIA director's speculation that the world economic crisis could destabilize some Latin American governments.
Baltasar Garzon, a workaholic Spanish judge who has taken on Islamic extremists, Basque separatists and a Latin American dictator, was hospitalized Friday after an anxiety attack caused his blood pressure to shoot up, a court official said.
While most of us hoped it would not be so, it took less than 24 hours for Republicans to start attacking the race of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor.
Former presidents blast drug repression effortsThree former Latin American presidents said Wednesday that regional policymakers should consider the decriminalization of marijuana because long-standing attempts to curb the production and trafficking of illicit drugs have failed.
Leaked Costa Rican memo exposes how CAFTA was sold to the publicHere's an internal Costa Rica government memo about their campaign for CAFTA that was leaked and is now in the latest issue of Harper's. Any connoisseur of government lying should read it: -- Jonathan Schwarz, A Tiny Revolution
7 Countries Considering Abandoning the US Dollar (and what it means)It's no secret that the dollar is on a downward spiral. Its value is dropping, and the Fed isn't doing a whole lot to change that. As a result, a number of countries are considering a shift away from the dollar to preserve their assets.
Bush's WWIII-mongering is helping Hugo Chavez's totalitarian schemes come trueAs untimely and distressing as Mr. Bush's remarks about taking war to Iran may sound to a significant part of the American public, everyone down here knows Bush's words are heavenly music to Mr. Chávez ears.
Tehran's Price for "Solidarity"(An opinion piece. Here are a few excerpts (taken out of context):
Ahmadinejad Cements Ties With Venezuela's Chavez, Declares 'No One Can Defeat Us'... The leaders of Iran and Venezuela cemented an alliance aimed at countering the United States while the Iranian president reached out to a new ally in Bolivia and declared that together, "no one can defeat us."
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in BoliviaThe hairy munchkin has taken his traveling freakshow down to South America, where today he met up with Jon Stewart's good pal Evo Morales.
Nicaragua's Pres. Ortega Slams US HegemonyThe world is under "the most impressive, huge dictatorship that has existed. The empire of North America,'' he said.
Brown faces call to end military support for ColombiaGordon Brown is facing demands from Labour and the TUC to distance himself from George Bush in a second area of foreign policy - by blocking arms sales and withdrawing all military aid to the US president's staunchest Latin American ally, Colombia.
Forbes: Anti-American Sentiment Grows WorldwideEuropean and world views of the United States and President George Bush have dramatically worsened since 2000; the trend has intensified since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
Mexican pipeline attacks could jeopardize exportsSaboteurs who blew up natural gas pipelines that shut down one of Mexico's main industrial regions earlier this month also crippled an important crude oil pipeline in an operation that indicated extensive knowledge of Mexico's energy infrastructure, U.S. officials said Tuesday.
Latin America's answer to the World Bank and IMF Mexico City and Quito, Ecuador - It is one thing when Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez dubs the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) "tools of US imperialism" and threatens to sever ties.
Chavez vs. Iran's Working ManIn his visit to the Islamic Republic, his sixth in eight years, Chavez set aside his Bolivarian flag. He went on Khomeini's tomb to pray for the bloodthirsty theocrat, under whose rule more than 1.5 million Iranians died in war and government repression.
Bill Gates No Longer 'Richest' Bill Gates has been replaced as the world's richest by a Mexican telecoms tycoon, according to a Mexican financial website. Sentido Comun reported on Tuesday that the recent strong performance of Carlos Slim Helu's America Movil company, Latin America's largest mobile phone …
83% of Undocumented Immigrants Say They Would Comply with Senate BillNobody bothered to ask the nation's 12 million undocumented immigrants what they would do once immigration reform legislation was passed -- until now.
Nothing 'spiritual' about imperialismPope Benedict XVI managed to skip over the bad parts of the invasion of the Americas by the Europeans in the 15th century--you know, like genocide, slavery & brutality --claiming that the indigenous population of the New World was "silently longing" for Christianity "without …
Editorial: You can't fight drugs with gunsThe worldwide "war on drugs" that relies on armies and police to destroy crops and arrest traffickers has failed. The attempt to suppress the Latin American drugs trade at source, first decreed by Richard Nixon in the 1970s, has achieved nothing.
The Pope Denounces Capitalism and Marxism - New York TimesPope Benedict XVI condemns abortion, Marxism, capitalism, homosexuality, and contraception often for reasons that are very strange.
Subcomandante Marcos on Revolution, Hot Chicks and His Sexy New Novel. Seriously.A bead of sweat is visible through the eyehole of his famous black balaclava. Latin America's most celebrated living rebel must be feeling the heat, but a glass of water would mean taking off the mask and that is out of the question.
Brazil Breaks Merck Drug Patent in Major Victory for AIDS ActivismAmid news that the President of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, today will announce Brazil's intention to issue a compulsory license for Merck's HIV/AIDS drug Efavirenz.
Chavez Guarantees Latin American Energy Supply for 100 Years Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called for the creation of a Latin American energy system to prioritize local markets in a ``true energy revolution,'' guaranteeing oil and gas supply to the region for 100 years.
Ask Bono to Stop Video Game that Attacks Venezuela!As you may know, Bono of U2 recently formed an investment firm called Elevation Partners, named after a famous U2 song, "Elevation". Elevation Partners invested $300 million in Pandemic Studios. They also recently bought a major interest in Forbes, again for $300 million.
Why Free Trade is Failing -- Intellectual Conservative Politics and PhilosophyFree trade is a compelling idea. Let each nation do more of what it does best, and trade will raise national productivity and incomes. However, these benefits are not guaranteed if a few nations can cheat on the rules.
All about Latin American DanceLatin American dance is not only for the selected few. You too can get into the rhythm of Latin American dance even if you think you have not been gifted the ability to dance.
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