People mostly remember the attempted coup of April 2002, but the struggle in Venezuela has been continuous

Daniel Ortega’s re-election as president of Nicaragua on 6 November last year was only mildly disputed: the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) candidate…

The scarily high murder rate in Venezuela could reflect social breakdown, imported narcowar or a ‘foreign conspiracy’. President Chávez has accused Bogota…

Media attention following Ingrid Betancourt’s dramatic release from captivity should not obscure a surprising revelation: laptop computers implausibly retrieved from an obliterating…

"It’s just like Cuba, only with food." The sun has set over Miami and you would think you were in Havana. It…

United States armaments are pouring into the Middle East. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced on 2 August that deliveries over the…

When Hugo Chavez was elected president of Venezuela in 1999, one of his first trips was to Saimadoyi, the tiny capital of…

The re-election last month of Hugo Chavez as president of Venezuela was no surprise. But few people even recognise the name of…

The Massacre river in northern Hispaniola divides the Dominican Republic and Haiti. It is crossed by a crumbling bridge, with Ouanaminthe, Haiti,…

‘We had a deadly weapon: the media. And now that I have the opportunity, let me congratulate you.’ In Caracas, on 11…