In Brief

A major strike in ecuador’s main oil-producing provinces in August dealt a heavy blow to multinational oil corporations operating in

In a policy shift that signals an escalation of U.S. involvement in Colombia’s civil war, U.S. Special Forces are training

SANTIAGO—A former secret policeman has revealed that the clinic in which Chile's former President Eduardo Frei Montalva died in 1982

A series of high-profile corruption scandals rocked Costa Rica last October, implicating three ex-presidents and forcing one of them to

It is easier to win the war than win the peace, the saying goes. That truism applies perfectly to the

SANTIAGO—As hearings began on April 26 into the request to lift former dictator Augusto Pinochet's parliamentary immunity, a new document

A spiral of violence that began in mid-January in Bolivia’s coca-growing Chapare region and spread across the country leaving at

MONTEVIDEO—Hopes that the left-wing alliance between the the Frente Amplio and the Progressive Encounter (FA-EP) would win national elections were

SANTIAGO—In late June, the Chilean human rights movement known as La Funa was met with water cannons, beatings and mass

A string of intense hurricanes wreaked havoc and destruction in Central America and the Caribbean throughout September, leaving several beleaguered

Montevideo—July 2002 will be remembered as the month the Uruguayan crisis exploded. It is a triple crisis—economic, political, and social—that

SANTIAGO—It has not been a banner year for Chile's former military tyrants. October 16, 1998, saw the arrest in London