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WASHINGTON _ In light of the controversy over 6-year- old Cuban refugee Elian Gonzalez, here are answers to some questions about U.S. immigration law, about how the U.S. government usually […]

WASHINGTON _ While Elian Gonzalez's Miami relatives remained locked in a tense standoff with federal officials, there were signs late Thursday that the U.S. government would turn the boy over […]

BEIJING _ A day after the U.S. House of Representatives voted to strengthen military ties with Taiwan, Chinese officials summoned U.S. Ambassador Joseph Prueher on Wednesday for a scathing critique […]

WASHINGTON _ Even as they praised Boris Yeltsin for his spectacular trashing of the communist system, Western leaders and analysts voiced hopes Friday that Russia's ambitious acting president will bring […]

WASHINGTON _ As the new millennium approaches and Mideast peace talks pick up speed, America and its allies are facing a new breed of international terrorists who are less professional […]

WASHINGTON _ Iranian leaders are urging terrorist groups to attack Israeli targets in hopes of derailing Mideast peace talks, according to officials and intelligence reports. Concern about Iran's plans, shared […]

WASHINGTON _ The real issues in the debate over the nuclear test ban treaty that the Senate rejected this week have been lost in the political mud. Democrats and Republicans […]

WASHINGTON _ President Clinton formally asked the Senate on Monday to postpone a vote on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, arguing that lawmakers have not sufficiently debated its merits. Proponents […]

WASHINGTON _ Stung by mounting criticism that it ignored high-level official corruption in Russia for years, the Clinton administration unveiled a new strategy Thursday to crack down on criminals and […]

WASHINGTON _ Stung by mounting criticism that it ignored high-level official corruption in Russia for years, the Clinton administration unveiled a new strategy Thursday to crack down on criminals and […]

WASHINGTON _ Colombia has displaced Southeast Asia as the top exporter of heroin to the United States, with Miami and Puerto Rico as its main points of entry, U.S. authorities […]

Eight months after the U.S. Southern Command began moving to Miami from its base in Panama, the American soldiers charged with promoting stability throughout Latin America and the Caribbean say […]

WASHINGTON _ In its starkest assessment to date, the Pentagon has concluded that Cuba poses no significant threat to U.S. national security, and senior defense officials increasingly favor engaging their […]

WASHINGTON _ Reacting to Pope John Paul II's call to promote change in Cuba, the Clinton administration is expected to announce a series of measures Friday that would roll back […]

WASHINGTON _ On the 50th anniversary of the Organization of American States, it fell to Carlos Fuentes, the irrepressible Mexican social critic, to tell the hemisphere's leaders Thursday how far […]

WASHINGTON _ Handing Puerto Rico its best chance ever to become the 51st state, the House of Representatives on Wednesday narrowly authorized islanders to vote on whether they want to […]

WASHINGTON _ Citing 'important changes' in Cuba's recent treatment of the Roman Catholic Church, the U.S. Catholic Conference on Monday called on Washington to enact a law allowing the sale […]

WASHINGTON _ Does Haiti need a little tough love? With the United Nations removing its 1,200 peacekeeping troops by week's end, the hemisphere's most hard-luck nation is bracing for a […]

BOGOTA, Colombia _ President Ernesto Samper on Wednesday said he had wished for a stronger extradition law but praised a weaker measure as still 'historic' and urged the United States […]

MIAMI _ Jorge Mas Canosa, a fiery and proud self-made millionaire who ushered exile politics from the streets of Miami to the halls of Washington, died early Sunday afternoon at […]

WASHINGTON _ Within months of the failed 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba, the Pentagon hatched a second plan to invade the island and topple Cuban President Fidel Castro, […]

WASHINGTON _ After years of trying to bully or buy Latin American cooperation in the fight against drugs, the Clinton administration is laying the groundwork for a humbler, gentler strategy. […]

WASHINGTON _ The U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday endorsed a bipartisan Senate bill to allow the sale of food and medicine to Cuba, saying it would ease suffering and […]

WASHINGTON _ President Clinton's failure to win trade negotiating authority from Congress this week has jeopardized his plans for economic integration with Latin America, analysts said Monday. Hours after the […]

BRASILIA, Brazil _ President Clinton on Tuesday offered a firm endorsement of Mercosur, the emerging South American customs union, even as he recognized that it might sharpen competition with U.S. […]

WASHINGTON - Just decades ago, military chiefs with enough guts and guns could burst out of the barracks and into the palace of a Latin American country, and the world […]

WASHINGTON _ In the four months since the birth of a U.S.-Mexican 'alliance' against drug traffickers, Mexico has made important strides _ especially in legal reform _ but is still […]

WASHINGTON _ President Clinton will ask a skeptical Congress on Wednesday for the authority to negotiate new trade pacts, in a critical step toward creating a hemispheric free-trade zone. If […]

FRIENDS AND LOVERS: President Clinton has decided to name Argentina as the first country in the hemisphere to become a 'major non-NATO ally,' sources say. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright […]

FOND JEAN-NOEL, Haiti _ From the air, Haiti's hills are the back of a starved hound _ sharp, brown and sere, with a thousand miseries scratched into its skin. Without […]

WASHINGTON _ Three years after fighting for the North American Free Trade Agreement, the Clinton administration's tepid appraisal of the accord's benefits could spell trouble for plans to incorporate Chile […]

WASHINGTON _ A dozen Congress members introduced legislation Wednesday to let Cuba more easily buy food and medicine in the United States _ a proposal Cuban American lawmakers denounced as […]

WASHINGTON _ Hoping to avoid U.S. sanctions, an Italian telecommunications company is quietly seeking to pay U.S.-based ITT Corp. for its claim to the telephone system it built decades ago […]

WASHINGTON _ On the heels of Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori's stunning military triumph, human-rights advocates voiced concerns Wednesday that Fujimori will abandon democratic reforms. The activists worried, moreover, that the […]

WASHINGTON _ The Clinton administration has denied a request by baseball's Baltimore Orioles to play exhibition games in Cuba this fall. The Treasury Department notified Peter Angelos, owner of the […]

WASHINGTON _ House lawmakers, eager to hand Mexico a stern rebuke without upsetting its economy, voted 251-175 Thursday to give Mexico 90 days to fully cooperate in the anti-drug war […]

WASHINGTON _ The controversy over Mexico's anti-narcotics efforts is bringing under increasing attack the entire U.S. process for passing judgment on other countries' wars on drugs. One thing is clear, […]

WASHINGTON _ Only a few weeks ago, U.S. anti-drug czar Gen. Barry McCaffrey hailed the appointment of his Mexican counterpart, Gen. Jesus Gutierrez Rebollo, calling him 'a guy of absolute […]

WASHINGTON _ Like partners trapped in a bad marriage, the United States and Colombia look at each other with suspicion and dread as an important anniversary approaches. Will the Clinton […]

WASHINGTON _ After a recent trip to Cuba, a bipartisan group of former U.S. lawmakers has roiled the political waters by urging Washington to scrap its decades-old effort to isolate […]

WASHINGTON _ In his meteoric political career, Cesar Gaviria contended with some tough figures: narcotics traffickers, assassins, rivals, even kidnappers. So when the former Colombian president alighted in Washington more […]

WASHINGTON _ Tuesday's assault on the Japanese ambassador's residence in Lima recalled similar sieges in Bogota and Managua _ each with widely different endings. The Lima assault was eerily reminiscent […]

WASHINGTON _ Long before the greatest step of her career Thursday, Secretary of State-designate Madeleine Albright walked into the hearts of thousands of South Floridians by blasting communist killers and […]

WASHINGTON _ Peru has quietly taken delivery of a squadron of MiG-29 fighter planes, the most sophisticated jets to reach the region, touching off a flurry of concerns about Peru's […]

WASHINGTON _ Does it make a difference who is president in the decades-long standoff against Fidel Castro? Perhaps not. With bipartisan approval, Congress wrested control over major aspects of U.S. […]

WASHINGTON _ To hear them tell it, President Clinton and his Republican challenger Bob Dole see a world of difference in U.S. policy toward Latin America. Where Clinton claims a […]

WASHINGTON _ The federal official ultimately responsible for overseeing U.S. government broadcasts to Cuba charged that the Cuban exile community exerts 'undue influences' over Radio and TV Marti, but he […]

WASHINGTON _ The Clinton administration barred U.S. spies from conducting covert operations in Cuba starting in December 1994 because of the CIA's disastrous record on the island and an effort […]

MIAMI _ When Cuban MiGs shot down two Brothers to the Rescue planes over international waters, the Clinton administration considered launching a cruise missile attack on an air base on […]

WASHINGTON _ House lawmakers on Wednesday clashed fiercely over Cuba with Cesar Gaviria, the secretary general of the Organization of American States. Several accused him of weak leadership in promoting […]