At each stage, the camps of the ousted president and of the acting president have been on different pages.
The head of a press association complained of governments’ revoking broadcast licenses, fostering hostility toward journalists and giving a free hand to government supporters.
The new commanders were sworn in a day after President Fernando Lugo abruptly removed the leaders of the army, navy and air force amid speculation of a possible coup attempt.
Mexicans, despite their reputation for formality, curse like sailors, a recent survey found. But exactly what is considered a bad word can require some interpretation.
Businesspeople say four months of political turmoil have caused long-term economic damage, isolating a country that had only recently drawn international investment and tourism.
After a rough start, Michelle Bachelet, Chile’s first woman in the presidency, is winding up her term as one of the country’s most popular leaders.
When police in Cancún, Mexico, extorted $300 from an American couple, they didn’t know that the driver’s wife was a Minnesota state senator who would fight back.
In 1978 I made my first reporting trip to the Brazilian Amazon, with an orange-and-white Penguin paperback edition of “Tristes Tropiques” as the only book squeezed into my gear.
In the Dominican Republic, boys are routinely receiving injections of over-the-counter vitamins and painkillers.
This preserved colonial city of whitewashed houses and grand churches meets contemporary life on its own terms.
Devotees of the María Lionza religion journey each October to a mountain in Venezuela, home of the high altar to the religion’s central figure.
There is a tug of war going on in the Galápagos between the archipelago’s natural wonders and the burgeoning human population.
Evangelical churches in Brazil blend religious fervor and popular culture, drawing young people to their fast-growing movement.
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