Like many Nepalese guides, Apa Sherpa started trekking to the top of Mount Everest in the shadow of more famous climbers — including the son of the late Sir Edmund Hillary, the first person to climb to the top of the world’s tallest peak.
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Signs of Spring: U.S.-Latin America Relations Thaw
When I started covering Latin America 20 years ago, a leftist source asked what books I’d read to help myself understand the region’s manera de pensar, or psyche. I fidgeted and mentioned Octavio Paz’s Labyrinth of Solitude. He shrugged.
Obama: ‘We can move U.S.-Cuban relations in a new direction’
President Obama said Friday he is seeking "a new beginning" in U.S. relations with Cuba
Raúl Castro: Cuba ready ‘to discuss everything’ with U.S.
The Cuban government, long the object of a U.S. economic blockade, is prepared to meet with the Obama administration, Cuba’s leader said. “We’ve told the North American government, in private and in public, that we are prepared, wherever they want, to discuss everything — human rights, freedom of the press, political prisoners — everything, everything, everything that they want to discuss,” Cuban President Raúl Castro said Thursday at a summit of leftist Latin American leaders in Venezuela.
Obama: Latin America on equal footing with U.S.
President Barack Obama on Thursday embarks on a trip to Latin America, where the leader of the world’s lone superpower said he seeks to engage in talks with the region’s leaders as equals. “Times have changed,” President Barack Obama told CNN en Español on Wednesday. Referring to his planned meeting in Trinidad and Tobago with Brazilian President Lula, he said, “My relationship with President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is one of two leaders who both have big countries, that we are trying to solve problems and create opportunities for our people, and we should be partners
Thai police say protest leader arrested
The leader of an anti-government protest that forced cancellation of a summit in Thailand was arrested Sunday and charged with instigating people to break the law, police said. Arismun Pongruengrong was being interrogated after his arrest at his residence, a police spokesman said
How the G-20 Succeeded And Why It Matters
One measure of a summit’s success is the number of participants who attempt to lay claim to its outcome.
Rift threatens to torpedo G-20 summit
The G-20 summit began Thursday, with leaders looking to repair a rift after France and Germany threatened to withdraw their support unless tough new rules were agreed to regulate the world’s financial markets. U.S
Explainer: Who’s who at the G-20
The prospects are not good.
Analysis: Crisis may lead to new world order
Can this G-20 summit prove to be anything more than group therapy for a bunch of fingernail-gnawing, troubled individuals? The prospects are not good