The Miami Herald

Everyone agrees that this is bad politics," said Maya MacGuineas, the president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a watchdog group. Another school of thought holds that neither Democrats nor Republicans can compromise much yet, ...

Lisa Margonelli, directora de la Iniciativa de Política Energética de la Fundación de la Nueva América, quien viajó a Cuba con el grupo en julio del año pasado, señaló que en caso de los derrames de petróleo ``el tiempo es esencial''. ...

I used one designed by a bipartisan think tank, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. The website, http://www.crfb.org/stabilizethedebt, ...

"It is truly a remarkable plan," Maya MacGuineas, the president of the Committee for a Responsible Budget, said in a statement. ...

As a result, "We're not about to get what people want," said Maya MacGuineas, the president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a nonpartisan ...

But Shannon Brownlee, a co-author of the Dartmouth report, said the Miami region has ``a decent supply'' of primary care doctors, with 69.7 per 100000 ...

Finally, someone in Cuba went eyeball to eyeball with the Castro brothers, and they blinked.

On July 7, Guillermo Fariñas, a dissident on a hunger strike for more than four months, achieved what no one has done before. Through a combination of careful confrontation, personal fortitude and international support, Fariñas forced Raúl Castro to negotiate with Cuba's Roman Catholic Church -- which led to the immediate release of five political prisoners, with 47 more to follow over the next four months.

On Aug. 7, Juan Manuel Santos will take office as the new president of Colombia. He will do so after eight years of Alvaro Uribe's popular, effective and controversial mandate; the last time someone governed Colombia for so long was during the 1950s when strongman Gustavo Rojas Pinilla remained in power for almost a decade.

Uribe convinced his countrymen four years ago that reelection was a good idea; he tried to persuade them again this year, and failed. Instead, he anointed a successor, who proceeded to obtain an extraordinary mandate of almost 70 percent of the vote.

This fresh round of accusations only highlights the tightrope that Santos will have to walk, said Jorge Castañeda, the former foreign minister of Mexico and ...

MEXICO CITY -- The perpetual seesaw in Latin American geo-politics is more vibrant than ever. The so-called "Americas-1" countries -- those that are either neutral in the confrontation between the United States and Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez (and Cuba), or openly opposed to the so-called "Bolivarian" governments of Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador, Nicaragua, and Venezuela -- are slowly advancing. The "Americas-2" radical left is receding moderately, yet it can still maintain its positions and defeat any attempts to roll back its influence.