When Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner succeeded her husband Nestor Kirchner, as Argentina's president in 2007, detractors warned of a scenario in which she and her husband would endlessly rotate in and out of the executive office, creating a virtual dynasty in Argentina. In what is considered a bid to buoy the couple's sagging popularity, the former president has entered the race for a congressional seat in midterm elections, and in doing so, has turned a sleepy legislative affair into a plebiscite on the couple and one of the highest-stakes races in recent history.
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The midterm election Sunday is being seen as a referendum on the populist policies of President Cristina Kirchner, whom the media often compare to Eva Perón.
BIRMINGHAM, ALA.---Three Colombia labor leaders are long dead---all felled in 2001 at the hands of Colombian right-wing assassins near the Drummond coal mines in northeastern Colombia where they labored and led a coal miners' union.
To watch the nightly news or pick up the morning papers in this metropolis of 20 million is to see a place where people are afraid to leave their homes for fear of murder, robbery, kidnapping, and assault.
Addiction skyrockets as drugs bound the US circulate within Mexico.
Mexico City - Gerardo Flores was 16 when he first was offered marijuana, and by the time he was 19 he had tried ecstasy, LSD, and cocaine.
As one of eight children born to poor parents in a small town and whose formal education ended in the fourth grade, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has come an astonishingly long way.
For the past 50 years, Latin Americans had a love-hate relationship with the U.S. They loved American entertainment and hated U.S. foreign policies. They had particular disdain for Washington’s support for...
