Joe Contreras

Inside the search for the world's most-wanted Nazi. An on-scene report.

A new book about Mexico City paints colorful portraits but fails to illuminate the big picture.

A new black-power movement in Central and South America.

Just as Latin American players are becoming big names in golf, Latin courses are getting notice. Golf Magazine's latest list of the top 100 includes courses from Baja California and the Dominican Republic.

Latin American players are becoming big names in golf, led by Mexico's Lorena Ochoa, the reigning queen of the women's pro tour. Latin golf courses are also becoming increasingly famous—Golf Magazine's latest list of the world's top 100 courses includes entries from Baja California and the Dominican Republic.

High inflation is encouraging Venezuelans to spend their cash on foreign travel—while they still can.

An undercover investigation found that it's easy for anyone to buy sensitive U.S. military equipment on the Web, prompting renewed congressional scrutiny.

A prominent Argentine evangelist discusses his role as part of the 'Superclass,' and what it means to be a religious leader in a globalized, information-driven world.

For years now, the death penalty has been held up as a marker of enlightenment, distinguishing the cultivated states that ban it from the brutish ones that still administer it.

Immigrants are starting to send less cash back home, in part because there's no one at home.

A woman's terror fears have taken down one of the largest fake document rings in the U.S.

Younger Cubans have waited all their lives for Fidel to deliver. And now?

Cuba's leader has resigned, and the nation's youth are starting to push back.

When Ariadna Montiel was a student in the 1990s and rode Mexico City's subways during peak hours, she shunned skirts in the hope of sparing herself the groping hands of a male passenger.

Three U.S. citizens have been held by Colombian rebels for five years. What is Washington doing about it?

Why Latin America's firebrands are softening their rhetoric—and emboldening the opposition.

Nearly 200 years ago Venezuelan patriot Simón Bolívar declared his country a free and sovereign state, and went on to liberate four other South American nations from Spanish colonial rule, envisioning a confederation of Andean republics that would stretch from the isthmus of Panama to the high plateau country of Bolivia.

Who is killing Mexico's musicians?

If history is any guide, Chávez's referendum defeat may just be a temporary setback for the Venezuelan president.

The influence the United States once claimed as a divine right in Latin America is slipping away, fast.

Despite rising protectionist sentiment in Congress, U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab says pending free-trade deals will pass--and benefit American workers.

It was an easy win for Argentina's new president. The cakewalk will end when she takes office.

Mexican police report findings of a dismembered corpse and fried flesh in the apartment of a would-be writer. Inside a chilling tale of murder.

Sexy, stylish and female. Meet Mexico's unlikely druglord suspect.

For Ricardo Salinas Pliego, Mexico's third-richest tycoon, being a celebrity has its advantages and its disadvantages.

The case of Alberto Fujimori suggests that other rogue heads of state will face consequences for their actions.

Emerging-market CEOs used to play it quiet. Now some are embracing capitalist celebrity, flaunting their winnings in the public eye.

Now mature in the west, gay power is growing worldwide, even in the land of machismo.

Thousands of adolescents work as unpaid baggers in Wal-Mart's Mexican stores. The retail giant isn't breaking any laws—but that doesn't mean the government is happy with the practice.

Néstor Kirchner would easily win re-election as Argentina's president. What was the thinking behind the decision to have his wife run instead?