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Bush's Latin Trip: An Unusual Look At Ordinary Life

MERIDA, Mexico, March 14 -- He dispensed with the formal state dinners and traveled through shanty neighborhoods. He met people struggling to make ends meet and called a visit to a Guatemalan village "one of the great experiences of my presidency."

Colombian Unravels Government-Paramilitary Ties

BOGOTA, Colombia, March 19 -- Sitting in a dreary 7-by-5-foot cell, Rafael GarcÃƒÂa predicts that he'll soon be murdered. It's a common threat in one of Colombia's toughest prisons, but it's made all the more real for the uncommon prisoner.

Colombia May Seek Chiquita Extraditions

BOGOTA, Colombia, March 20 -- Colombia's attorney general said Tuesday that his office would try to seek the extradition of eight executives from Chiquita Brands International, the Ohio banana company that last week admitted to paying $1.7 million to right-wing death squads that have killed...

On Anniversary, Argentina Presses Claim to Falklands

BUENOS AIRES, April 2 -- Argentina on Monday marked the 25th anniversary of its failed attempt to regain the Falkland Islands, reasserting its claim to the South Atlantic archipelago.

U.S. Holds Suspects In War Crimes

Ernesto Guillermo Barreiro seemed to fit in well with his neighbors in Virginia's placid horse country. The quiet, genteel man from Argentina opened an art and antiques store after moving into a farmhouse last year in The Plains.

In Rio, Death Comes Early

RIO DE JANEIRO -- The sound of crackling explosions entered through the glassless window of Maiza Madeira's home, a hollow-brick shanty wedged deep within the narrow, twisting alleyways of this city's largest hillside slum.

Colombian Senator: Death Squads Met At Uribe's Ranch

BOGOTA, Colombia, April 17 -- An opposition lawmaker on Tuesday alleged that paramilitary death squads met at the ranch of President ÃƒÂlvaro Uribe in the late 1980s and plotted to murder opponents, an explosive charge in a growing scandal that has unearthed ties between the illegal militias and tw...

Colombian President Hits Back

BOGOTA, Colombia, April 20 -- Facing allegations that his family had ties to illegal paramilitary groups, President ÃƒÂlvaro Uribe issued fervent denials at a news conference here Thursday and in Miami on Friday as he tried quell a scandal that he said "puts at risk the greater interests of the...

Peruvian Honored for Defending Indigenous People

Growing up amid the Peruvian Amazon's raging rivers and rustling foliage, Julio Cusurichi Palacios learned at an early age how to balance nature's vast possibilities with his own limitations. He learned to leap from great heights and run long distances without getting hurt or lost. He dipped in...