In Brief

AREQUIPA—Five days of protests against the Peruvian government’s decision to privatize state-run electric companies in the southern department of Arequipa ...

MONTEVIDEO—More than 20 years of tireless effort finally paid off for Uruguayan Sara Méndez on March 19 when she was ...

SANTIAGO—Many years ago, in the early 1980s, Lucía Pinochet telephoned me to invite me to her office for coffee. I ...

As Guatemalan President Oscar Berger signed an agreement with three other Central American leaders to coordinate regional anti-gang efforts on ...

Sila María Calderón took office as governor of Puerto Rico on January 2 with calls for greater autonomy and for ...

BRASÍLIA—New investigations are being opened into Operation Condor, the shadowy military network of the Cold War era whose key members ...

NEW YORK CITY—Hundreds of workers from Latin America and the Caribbean are among the thousands who are presumed dead after ...

Since the Mexican devaluation of December, 1994 several other major financial cataclysms have occurred in the Third World; together these ...