Chile y Paraguay rechazan intento golpista en Ecuador, en sesión de la OEA

Ecuador: US Ambassador Expelled Over Wikileaks Cable

In the document addressed to the U.S. Department of State, Hodges said embassy officials believed Correa was aware of supposed corrupt practices by former national police chief Jaime Hurtado, but that the president named him to the post anyway because it would make him more easily manipulated.

Latin America Leaders Seek Mechanisms to Avoid Coups

Leaders of the 12 members of the Union of South American Nations agreed here Friday to add an anti-coup clause to the charter of the organization known as Unasur, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said.

The Decade that Transformed a Continent

In many ways, the first decade of the 21st Century was the flip side of the last decade of the twentieth century in South America.