The most dangerous activity a sitting United States president is usually allowed to do is drive a golf cart.
Theories about the death of John F Kennedy are in overdrive as the 50th ?anniversary of his death approaches — even John Kerry is weighing in.
They say the West has been hoodwinked by Muslims and claim to have been vindicated by last week’s attacks, but who are America’s "counter jihadis"?
The maker of the anti-Muhammad film that sparked mayhem in Egypt and protest in Libya has gone into hiding, leaving questions about his identity.
They come from every corner of America’s galaxy — moms and dads, skywalkers and hobbits, vampires and vigilantes, all on the same mission: escape.
A dramatic fall in the murder rate in El Salvador has been attributed to the gangs’ truce.
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/ 27 February 2012
Honduras is the world’s murder capital, with a rate 12 times the global average, amid violent fallout from a 2009 coup.
Hugo Chavez to face stiff competition from youthful presidential hopeful.
Narco-terrorism has made Central America one of the world’s deadliest regions for journalists.
Raul Castro has proposed term limits for Cuba’s rulers, including himself, in an unprecedented effort to rejuvenate the island’s political leadership.
Chevron cries foul but the plaintiffs might yet push for the $27-billion they claimed.
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/ 18 October 2010
As the mine rescue drama neared a climax, clerics vied with one another to stamp their own faith on a surge in religious fervour in Chile.
Both sides have declared it a victory but the opposition’s gains have left the president weaker.
A knee to the groin may be more Vinnie Jones than Machiavelli, but it was no less effective for Evo Morales in asserting his presidential authority.
More than one million state employees are to be laid off in the island’s economic shake-up.
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/ 4 September 2010
The events which have no name scythe through the valley like invisible reapers. They slice east to west, west to east, a homicidal pendulum.
As Julius Malema visits Venezuela to study its nationalisation programme, allegations of corruption mount, writes <b>Rory Carroll</b>.
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/ 1 February 2010
Hotel cashier Wismond Exantus dreamed, among other things, that he was in the middle of the ocean and riding a horse.
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/ 19 October 2009
Chavez takes Venezuela deeper into repression as he neutralises his foes, writes Rory Carroll.
Hugo Chavez is famous for nationalising farms, factories and oil rigs but his latest appropriation comes closer to body snatching.
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/ 9 February 2009
Oil fluctuations and high inflation threaten revolution, writes Rory Carroll.
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/ 6 December 2008
Hugo Chávez this week launched a push for constitutional reform that would allow him to go on seeking indefinite re-election as Venezuela’s president.
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/ 25 October 2008
Many have called Cuba many things — a progressive beacon, a quixotic underdog, an oppressive tyranny — but no one has called it lucky, until now.
Cuba has approved what is believed to be the world’s first registered lung cancer vaccine and is offering it to Cuban and foreign patients.
Jamaica has abandoned its ghettoes to violent crime and shocking levels of police brutality, leaving communities terrorised and bereft of hope, according to a report. Armed gangs and corrupt police units have turned inner cities into arenas of mayhem and impunity, Amnesty International says in a report published last week.
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/ 18 February 2008
It was the 1980s and Nicaragua’s Sandinista revolution was captivating hearts and minds around the world. The olive-uniformed guerrillas had overthrown the hated Somoza dictatorship and were trying to build a more equal society by empowering women, giving peasants land and teaching the illiterate to read.
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/ 5 February 2008
What Natasha does on the bed in the dingy room with flaking orange paint so shames her she cannot bring herself to use the word. She calls it "so and so" and sells it here from midday to midnight, six days a week. On a very good day she makes £45. With each 30-minute session earning £2,50 that works out at 18 different men, many drunk, some violent. She tries to forget the very good days.
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/ 3 December 2007
"I’m tired, tired of Farc, tired of the people, tired of communal life. Tired of never having anything for myself. It would be worth it if we knew why we were fighting. But the truth is I don’t believe in this any more." So wrote Tanja Nijmeijer, a 29-year-old, middle-class Dutch woman who is among a handful of Europeans who joined the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.
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/ 15 October 2007
Centuries of troubles have bobbed on the waves off the Mosquito Coast: Christopher Columbus, the Spanish conquest, pirates, slave ships. For the fishing villages scattered across these remote central American shores there was seldom reason to welcome visits from the outside world.
It is no longer a rainforest but a tree cemetery. As far as the eye can see there are uprooted, bare and broken trunks. The canopy, a roof of foliage so lush you could walk over it, is gone. The few remaining bits of green are no bigger than broccoli. This is the aftermath of Hurricane Felix along Nicaragua’s Mosquito Coast. A smell of decay shrouds the landscape.
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/ 11 September 2007
When the haggard and broken figure was laid out on the slab and displayed to the world it was not just Che Guevara who had died. The dream of socialist revolution in South America was over. His image and name would continue to inspire millions but on the continent he wanted to transform he was a political failure, a defeated guerrilla on the wrong side of history.
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/ 8 December 2006
Latin America’s female literary giants have come to the rescue of two women who have been reviled as collaborators in Spanish conquests of the new world that verged on genocide, writes Rory Carroll.