18/11/2019 | Frente Externo
Chileans to Vote on Whether to Scrap Dictatorship-Era Constitution
Government, leading political parties agree to hold referendum in April after nearly a month of unrest.
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09/07/2013 | En Parrilla
With Snowden offer, Venezuela’s Maduro is on world stage
American fugitive Edward Snowden’s diminishing possibilities of remaining free to continue releasing information about secret U.S. surveillance programs increasingly appear to hinge on Venezuela, which awaited word Monday on whether the former National Security Agency contractor would accept its offer of asylum and fly to the oil-rich country.
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28/03/2013 | Medio Ambiente
Brazilian chief uses technology to help save his tribe and curb deforestation
As a small boy in the early ’80s, Almir Surui hunted monkeys with a bow and arrow, wore a loincloth and struggled with Brazil’s official language, Portuguese.
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18/02/2013 | Frente Externo
Cuba has outsized role in Venezuela as Chavez fights cancer
It’s become a well-worn routine here: A news flash about President Hugo Chavez’s battle with cancer is issued, invariably delivered with great fanfare but scant details.
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02/02/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
As U.S. Consumes Less Cocaine, Brazil Uses More
As cocaine consumption falls in the United States, South American drug traffickers have begun to pioneer a new soft target for their product: big and increasingly affluent Brazil.
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30/01/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Brazil's fight against drug traffickers stretched thin along its porous borders
President Dilma Rousseff moves to prevent narcotics reaching a booming market created by country's growing middle class.
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12/09/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Colombia - In cradle of rebellion, hope that Colombia’s war might end
It was here, on steep green hillsides reachable by mule train, that peasants armed with old bolt-action rifles became the FARC, a rebel group that would use the bounties of the drug trade to wage decades of war against the U.S.-supported government.
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23/04/2012 | En Parrilla
Radical left at crossroads in Latin America
Quite suddenly, whether intentional or not, Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner became the standard-bearer of populist nationalism in Latin America when her country seized a Spanish oil company last week.
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13/04/2012 | Frente Externo
Interview with Guatemala President Otto Perez (transcript)
The following are excerpts from an interview with Otto Perez, the president of Guatemala, conducted on March 24, 2012, via phone by The Washington Post’s Juan Forero. The interview was translated from Spanish.
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30/08/2011 | Frente Externo
Wiretapping Scandal Shakes Colombia
In Colombia, a major scandal involving the country's intelligence service is unfolding. Colombia's chief prosecutor says the spy service bugged the Supreme Court, intercepted the phones of its justices and followed their every move.
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30/08/2011 | Frente Externo
Wiretapping Scandal Shakes Colombia
In Colombia, a major scandal involving the country's intelligence service is unfolding. Colombia's chief prosecutor says the spy service bugged the Supreme Court, intercepted the phones of its justices and followed their every move.
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19/08/2011 | Frente Externo
Education protests shake Chile’s government
In Latin America’s most economically stable country, it was yet another protest. Thousands of students chanted slogans, banged drums and snarled traffic Thursday, as the media and political establishment intensely watched.
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15/08/2011 | Sociedad
Argentina's Jewish Villages Keep Traditions Alive
In the 1890s, Russian Jews fleeing anti-Semitic violence and discrimination arrived by the thousands to a remote corner of the Argentine Pampas. They founded hamlets similar to the shtetls they left behind. They spoke Yiddish, built synagogues and traditional Jewish schools — and became farmers and gauchos, the mythical Argentine cowboys.
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31/07/2011 | Frente Externo
Venezuela - Hugo Chavez’s opponents see an opportunity
It’s almost as if nothing has changed. Back from chemotherapy in Cuba, President Hugo Chavez is again singing on television, publicly ruminating over 19th-century conspiracies against Venezuela’s independence hero and skewering his opponents with colorful barbs.
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07/06/2011 | Frente Externo
Peru - Nationalist Humala edges out rival in Peru, unnerving investors
Ollanta Humala, a nationalist former army officer who won Peru’s presidential election Sunday, has sworn on a Bible that he is not the same radical who first emerged in 2006. Back then, in a failed bid to win the presidency, he had pledged to intervene in the economy and take Peru into a leftist orbit led by Venezuela’s populist president, Hugo Chavez.
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07/06/2011 | Frente Externo
Peru - Nationalist Humala edges out rival in Peru, unnerving investors
Ollanta Humala, a nationalist former army officer who won Peru’s presidential election Sunday, has sworn on a Bible that he is not the same radical who first emerged in 2006. Back then, in a failed bid to win the presidency, he had pledged to intervene in the economy and take Peru into a leftist orbit led by Venezuela’s populist president, Hugo Chavez.
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09/02/2011 | Frente Externo
In Argentina, A Fight Over Peron's Personal Effects
The iconic Argentine leader Juan Peron has been dead for nearly 40 years, but many of his personal items — including shoes, papers, typewriters and a mirror that belonged to his mother — live on.
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07/02/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Colombia hoping land-reform efforts will help sow peace
To beat back a stubborn guerrilla movement, Colombia and its closest ally and benefactor, the United States, upgraded a once-hapless army and began to wrest territory from rebel forces.
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03/01/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico Seeks Lessons From Colombia's War On FARC
Mexican government forces are outgunned in their fight against drug-trafficking organizations, facing an adversary that in some ways is like an insurgency, prompting the country to look for help not just from the United States, but from a country to the south, Colombia.
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29/10/2010 | Frente Externo
Scientists Help Make Brazil An Agriculture Dynamo
Brazil is the world's biggest exporter of beef, poultry, orange juice and sugar cane. It also supplies a quarter of the world's soybeans. A group of scientists is credited with turning Brazil into the agricultural superpower it is today.
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16/07/2010 | Frente Externo
Venezuelan union clashes are on the rise as Chavez fosters new unions at odds with older ones
Calling itself the most labor-friendly government in Latin America, President Hugo Chávez's socialist administration has repeatedly increased the minimum wage, turned over the management of some nationalized companies to workers and fostered the creation of new unions.
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22/06/2010 | Sociedad
'Gringo chief' Randy Borman helps Ecuador's Cofan Indians survive, thrive
On a recent day, the man known as the Gringo Chief wore a traditional black smock and a necklace strung with jaguar and wild boar's teeth, perfectly suitable for the Cofan Indian ceremony marking the acquisition of yet another slice of rain forest.
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26/04/2010 | Frente Externo
Venezuelan judge is jailed after ruling angers President Hugo Chávez
Sitting in the tiny jail cell that has been her home for months, Judge Maria Lourdes Afiuni said she knew a ruling she handed down in December might incense Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez.
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19/04/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Despite billions in U.S. aid, Colombia struggles to reduce poverty
Eight years after President Alvaro Uribe took office and began harnessing billions in U.S. aid to pummel Marxist guerrillas, Colombia is safer for this country's 45 million people and for the foreign investors who have flocked here.
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25/02/2010 | En Parrilla
OAS criticizes Venezuela, Chavez on human rights abuses
The human rights branch of the Organization of American States issued a blistering 300-page report Wednesday morning against one of its members, Venezuela, saying that the oil-rich country run by President Hugo Chavez constrains free expression, the rights of Venezuelans to protest and the ability of opposition politicians to function.
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24/02/2010 | Frente Externo
OAS criticizes Venezuela, Chavez on human rights abuses
The human rights branch of the Organization of American States issued a blistering 300-page report Wednesday morning against one of its members, Venezuela, saying that the oil-rich country run by President Hugo Chavez constrains free expression, the rights of Venezuelans to protest and the ability of opposition politicians to function.
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25/12/2009 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Colombian assassination raises fears about FARC's strength
Colombia's largest rebel group, which in recent months has launched a string of armed attacks to demonstrate that it is not a spent force after 45 years of conflict, this week staged a strike that alarmed Colombians and raised questions about President Álvaro Uribe's U.S.-supported security strategies.
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05/10/2009 | Frente Externo
As Colombian War Crimes Suspects Sit in U.S. Jails, Victims' Kin Protest
One by one and in gory detail, a former death squad commander, Hernán Giraldo, recounted at special judicial hearings how he killed his opponents in Colombia's long, murky war.
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17/08/2009 | Transparencia
Doctored Data Cast Doubt on Argentina
Workers at the government's National Institute of Statistics call it crass manipulation: Their agency, under pressure from above, altered socioeconomic data to reflect numbers palatable to the presidency. Inflation and poverty miraculously dropped, they said in interviews, and the economy boomed.
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22/03/2008 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Colombia's Rebels Face Possibility of Implosion
Hungry, desperate and afraid for his life, Pedro Pablo Montoya shot the commander he was supposed to protect. He then severed the commander's right hand -- as proof he'd killed one of Colombia's most wanted men -- and deserted the once-powerful rebel group to which he had pledged allegiance.
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06/02/2008 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Drug Traffic Beneath the Waves
In the annals of the drug trade, traffickers have swallowed cocaine pellets, dissolved the powder into ceramics and flown the drug as far as Africa on flimsy planes -- anything to elude detection and get a lucrative product to market. Now, the cartels seem to be increasingly going beneath the waves, relying on submarines built in clandestine jungle shipyards to move tons of cocaine.
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17/10/2006 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
In Colombia, A Dubious Disarmament
Demobilized Paramilitaries Are Sidestepping Justice, Critics and Victims Say.
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04/04/2006 | Frente Externo
Chávez, Seeking Foreign Allies, Spends Billions
President Hugo Chávez is spending billions of dollars of his country's oil windfall on pet projects abroad, aimed at setting up his leftist government as a political counterpoint to the conservative Bush administration in the region.
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