Uribe Meets With Ex-Leaders Over Venezuela
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President Alvaro Uribe met with five of his predecessors Thursday and the former leaders offered their support in a growing political row with neighboring Venezuela.
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Bolivian President Evo Morales met with Cuba's ailing Fidel Castro during a day trip to the island on Wednesday, state television reported.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and his Colombian counterpart, Alvaro Uribe, are trying to smooth over their worst diplomatic dispute in years with a face-to-face meeting to discuss the recent capture of a Colombian rebel in Venezuela.
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Venezuela's parliament is set to discuss for a second time President Chavez's  call for constitutional changes.
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Presidents and officials of 12 South American countries are meeting in Peru to create an economic and political community.
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Leaders from Spain, Portugal and their former colonies in Latin America urged Britain and Argentina to renew their dialogue on the Falkland islands, known in Argentina as the Malvinas.
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Colombian President Alvaro Uribe met relatives of French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt on Sunday at the start of a tour aimed at rekindling European efforts to help release hostages held by Colombian rebels.
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Venezuela has asked US oil giant ExxonMobil to resume World Bank-sponsored talks to resolve a nationalization dispute and to drop legal cases in New York and London, Energy Minister Rafael Ramirez said Tuesday.
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By Daniel Flynn MADRID  - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez'sfence-mending visit to Spain sparked political uproar onTuesday when Madrid for the first time backed his allegationsthat the former Spanish government backed a coup against him.
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Brazilian UN peacekeepers in armored personnel carriers stand guard outside the former home of deposed Haiti President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in Tabarre, Haiti December 16, 2004, as they and the Haitian government negotiated with former members of Haiti&#39;s
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Three U.S. senators met with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Monday and said they came away optimistic the two governments can mend relations despite past tensions.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's visit to Spain sparked a political feud Tuesday after Spain's Socialist foreign minister accused Madrid's previous conservative government of backing a failed coup against Chavez in 2002.
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Colombian President Alvaro Uribe and former hostage Clara Rojas embraced publicly for the first time Wednesday, two weeks after she was released by leftist FARC rebels.
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Portugal&#39;s president met party leaders today to discuss snap elections seen as likely to replace the months-old coalition government.
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Venezuela plans talks with Panama next week on a proposal to pump oil through a Panamanian pipeline to the Pacific in order to cut shipping costs to China, the Venezuelan foreign minister said Wednesday.
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The presidents of Colombia and Venezuela say they have ended weeks of tension over a diplomatic row.
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LLANOGRANDE, Colombia  - Colombia's President Alvaro Uribe told visiting U.S. lawmakers on Saturday his government's record illustrated it was addressing Democrats' concerns over anti-union violence and impunity that have stymied their approval of a free trade deal.