Manuel Rueda

December 06, 2018

The USNS Comfort served thousands of desperate Venezuelan refugees in Colombia who’ve fled their country’s life-threatening food and medical scarcities. The ship anchored off Riohacha, Colombia as part of a three-month, four-nation Latin American tour, helping with everything from hernia operations to eye cataract removals.

Environment

Hundreds of Mexico City buildings may now be uninhabitable

GlobalPost

September 23, 2017

Updated

09/23/2017 - 5:45pm

An estimated 40 buildings collapsed in Tuesday's earthquake, but hundreds more sustained serious damage, leading many residents to evacuate.

Conflict

Memo to Trump: This is what mass deportation looks like

PRI's The World

August 28, 2015

This week, we may have caught a glimpse of what a Trump-style mass deportation could look like from an unexpected source: Venezuela.

Colombian march for hostage release

PRI's The World

April 04, 2008

Manuel Rueda reports on a public outcry in Colombia, calling on the government and leftist rebels to come up with a deal to release hundreds of hostages held in the Colombian jungle.

Global Politics

US support for Colombia

PRI's The World

March 04, 2008

President Bush called Colombia's president to express US support for the South American nation. Colombia sparked a regional crisis with a military operation inside Ecuador that killed a Colombian rebel leader

Global Politics

Latin American reaction to Castro's resignation

PRI's The World

February 19, 2008

There's range of reaction throughout Latin America to today's news that Fidel Castro has resigned; we hear from The World's Lorne Matalon in Mexico, reporter Manuel Rueda in Colombia, and the BBC's James Ingham in Venezuela.

Science, Tech & Environment

Facebook fuels anti-FARC protests in Colombia

PRI's The World

February 06, 2008

Manuel Rueda reports from Colombia on the creator of a "facebook" group that succeeded in getting thousands of people around the world to march in protest against the Colombian rebel group FARC.

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