The recent "exhumation of the body of Simon Bolivar" involves an interesting collusion between forensic science,the...

Juan Manuel Santos has made a refreshing start as Colombia’s president by departing from the policies of his...

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Grenade attack rocks Kigali just two days after Kagame re-elected as president, while opposition groups urge...

We lead this week's report with collection of voices calling for an end to the War on Drugs as a means of mitigating...

Environmentalism may be important in the upcoming elections, and not only because the Green Party could sway the...

In half a generation, a period that straddles two presidencies, politics has lifted millions of Brazilians from...

Six months after the catastrophe in Haiti’s capital, the realities of insecurity, displacement and poverty co-exist...

A weekly summary of news and developments in drug policy and criminal justice reform in the US & UK.

Mexican politician assassinated after highlighting cartel violence. Israeli air raid on Gaza kills Palestinian. Ten...

Obama sacks top Afghan war commander, General Stanley McChrystal. Southeast European countries denounce Israeli...

Violence escalates in southernKyrgyzstan, killing 114. Israel launches flotilla inquiry. 15 killed, 45 wounded in...

The US Secretary of Defence voices disappointment over Turkey. A terrorist strike hits Kandahar. Scores are dead in...

The work of the Argentinean writer Tomás Eloy Martínez is intimately bound with the country’s modern history of...

UNSC imposes fourth round of sanctions on Iran. Obama meets Abbas and pledges aid. NATO helicopter shot down by...

Brazil's sense of its place in its neighbourhood and in the world has undergone a profound shift since 1990. Leslie...

The first round of the contest to succeed Álvaro Uribe as Colombia’s president produced one big surprise and five...

The tripartite nuclear-fuel agreement signed in Tehran is a watershed in the emerging configuration of a multipolar...

UN condemns Israeli commando raid on aid-flotilla. Amnesty calls for inquiry into possible extra-judicial killings...