The four-decade-long conflict between the government of Colombia and guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known as the FARC, is not confined by borders. And while Colombian forces have scored major victories this year, the view from neighboring Ecuador near the frontier is different. (May need to register)
THE OPPENHEIMER REPORT
What a joke! The United Nations' brand new Human Rights Council Advisory Committee held its first session this week in Geneva and -- as unbelievable as it looks -- elected a Cuban official to chair the 18-country group.
In an extremely rare move, a Jamaican lesbian living in Sunrise has avoided deportation -- for now -- after an immigration judge allowed the 29-year-old to stay in the United States because her sexual orientation could cause her to be tortured in her home country.
It was a normal school day for 14-year-old Fernando Martí, son of a sporting goods mogul, but it was not the normal route taken by his driver and his bodyguard to the British American School. Then, a makeshift roadblock on a busy thoroughfare, men dressed in black with guns. It was a setup and Fernando was the target.
Evo Morales is hoping victory in a referendum on his presidency Sunday will re-ignite his stalled crusade to remedy age-old inequities in South America's poorest country. Polls strongly indicate he'll keep his job.
A police official says an FBI agent may have accidentally killed a local officer in a late-night shootout with alleged kidnappers.
The narcotics trade has long been a winked-at way of life for many in this market town on the fertile coastal plains of northwestern Mexico. It's also become a terrifying way of death.
In its glory days, the U.S. Navy destroyer John Rodgers was among the most decorated warships of World War II. Now, hull rusting and big guns whitened by bird droppings, the destroyer abandoned in Mexico finds itself in what could be its final battle, one that could turn the historic ship into a museum or, alternatively, a heap of scrap.
Many Mexicans have long shrugged off the violence shaking their country by telling themselves it only affects those involved in the narcotics trade and corrupt law enforcement officers. But innocent civilians, once considered largely off-limits, now find themselves increasingly targeted.
Audio | Interview by Trenton Daniel