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cuba

Castro departs with lasting legacy

When Fidel Castro and his band of bearded rebels entered Havana just after New Year's Day 1959, Dwight Eisenhower was president of the United States, and few people questioned American hegemony in Latin America. Castro soon declared himself a Communist, and nearly every government in the region joined the U.S. in condemning his regime. Two generations and nine American presidents… 0

February 24, 2008

Hurricanes hit from 2 oceans

Hurricane Felix came ashore on Nicaragua's remote Miskito Coast early yesterday as a Category 5 storm, damaging about 5,000 homes in the region before moving westward toward the heart of Honduras, officials said. Less than nine hours later and more than 1,600 miles away in the Pacific, a second and much weaker hurricane, Henriette, struck the resort city of San Jose del Cabo on… 0

September 5, 2007

mexico

President takes office amid protests

Felipe Calderon, a diminutive but determined conservative, was inaugurated yesterday as president of a deeply divided Mexico amid fisticuffs between rival lawmakers and raucous protests in the country's Legislative Palace. 0

December 2, 2006

Mexico

Leftist candidate takes 'oath'

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the leftist candidate who claims to have been cheated out of victory in July's presidential election in Mexico, took an "oath of office" yesterday as the "legitimate president" in an elaborate ritual his many detractors ridiculed as a farce. The ceremony in Mexico City came less than two weeks before the inauguration of the man who won the election,… 0

November 21, 2006

Mexico

'The Rooster' plays for people power

In his bid to win Mexico's presidential election Sunday, leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador can count on a secret weapon: the yellow dune buggy stuffed with campaign fliers that volunteer activist Raul Esquivel drives to rural hamlets surrounding this town in southern Mexico. The senior citizens of Mexico City are Lopez Obrador's secret weapon too. They clip out newspaper… 0

June 30, 2006

Mexico

The search continues

Rescue workers digging by hand with picks and shovels raced yesterday to reach 65 miners trapped in a coal mine just outside San Juan de Sabinas in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila. Officials at the Pasta de los Conchos mine said they were still hopeful of finding survivors to the mine collapse caused by an explosion early Sunday. Two air vents reaching 600 feet into the mine… 0

February 21, 2006

Mexico

Drug war invades popular resort

ACAPULCO, Mexico - Death surprised Julio Carlos Lopez Soto near the beach as he stepped out of the swanky La Mansion steakhouse, where the meat is grilled on tabletops overlooking the Pacific. And death came to police officer Raymundo Leyva in the hills that rise above Acapulco Bay, where the working people of this resort city live. He was shot 11 times. A spreading conflict between… 0

November 5, 2005

International response to U.S. distress ranges widely

MEXICO CITY - Around the world, the irony was too deep to ignore. In teeming Mexico City, the newspaper Ovaciones took a break from its daily diet of kidnappings and gore to splash across its front page images of an American city reduced to "starvation, refugees . . . and helicopters under fire." "Just Like Haiti!" the banner headline screamed. 0

September 3, 2005

Argentina

It's no walk in the park, this job

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -Homero is a working dog, a Labrador retriever with a lot on his mind. Five days a week his job takes him up and down the streets of this dog-crazy city, past cafes and apartment towers, around angry doormen and reckless cabdrivers. The responsibility, added to a personal trauma or two, may be what's caused a few of the light-brown hairs on his head to turn… 0

June 15, 2005

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