Dollar's clout sinks worldwide
Antique store owners in lower Manhattan, ticket vendors at India's Taj Majal and Brazilian business executives heading to China all have one thing in common these days: They don't want U.S. dollars.
Nations:China Brazil U.S. Bolivia India Peru Activities:2008 U.S. Recession
2008-03-13
Fewer cocaine shipments stopped in 2007
U.S.-directed seizures and disruptions of cocaine shipments from Latin America dropped sharply in 2007 from the year before, reflecting in part a successful shift in tactics by drug traffickers to avoid detection at sea, senior American officials disclosed Monday in releasing new figures.
Nations:Venezuela Colombia Bolivia Nicaragua Mexico People:Alvaro Uribe Hugo Chavez Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
2008-01-14
Chavez loses constitutional vote
Humbled by his first electoral defeat ever, President Hugo Chavez said Monday he may have been too ambitious in asking voters to let him stand indefinitely for re-election and endorse a huge leap to a socialist state.
Nations:Singapore Venezuela Bolivia Ecuador Nicaragua People:Fidel Castro Hugo Chavez
2007-12-03
China's influence spreads around world
For nearly three decades, Chinese peasants have left their villages for crowded dormitories and sweaty assembly lines, churning out goods for world markets. Now, China is turning the tables.
Nations:U.S. Brazil China Sudan Bolivia Venezuela People:Mia Farrow Hu Jintao Deng Xiaoping Activities:2007 China Toothpaste Crisis Darfur Genocide Crisis
2007-09-02
Va. Tech classes resume amid tributes
Thousands of Virginia Tech students and faculty filled the center of campus Monday to pay solemn tribute to the victims of the campus -- pausing for moments of silence on the day classes resumed a week after a student gunman killed 32 people.
Nations:U.S. Bolivia Activities:2007 Virginia Tech Rampage
2007-04-23
Bush won't engage in fight with Chavez
President Bush claimed progress on trade with Uruguay's president on Saturday, courting another leftist leader on his Latin American tour. "We care about the human condition," Bush said, trying to co-opt the populism of one influential leftist rival he won't meet: Venezuela's firebrand, Hugo Chavez.
Nations:Uruguay Guatemala Colombia Brazil Argentina Bolivia People:Hugo Chavez George W. Bush Activities:U.S.-Venezuela
2007-03-10
Bush, Chavez on dueling tours of Latin America
President Bush and his left-wing nemesis Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez embarked on dueling tours of Latin America on Friday as they stepped up competition for the region's hearts and minds.
Nations:Argentina Brazil Venezuela Guatemala Bolivia Uruguay People:Fidel Castro Hugo Chavez George W. Bush Activities:U.S.-Venezuela
2007-03-09
Bush opens 6-day Latin America tour
President Bush sought to reverse an impression of U.S. neglect as he opened a six-day tour of Latin America on Thursday. Street protests awaited him.
Nations:Colombia Brazil Uruguay Argentina Guatemala Bolivia People:Fidel Castro Hugo Chavez
2007-03-08
Chile Bus Crash Kills 12 American Tourists
A bus carrying cruise ship tourists plunged 300 feet down a mountainside in northern Chile Wednesday, killing 12 Americans, U.S. and Chilean officials said.
Nations:Bolivia U.S. Chile Peru
2006-03-22
US under fire as Chavez hosts World Social Forum
Tens of thousands of international activists gathered in Caracas on Tuesday for the World Social Forum to protest U.S. imperialism and debate topics from fair trade to indigenous rights.
Nations:Bolivia Cuba Colombia Venezuela Brazil Peru People:Hugo Chavez George W. Bush Activities:Second Gulf War U.S.-Venezuela
2006-01-24
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