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Simon Romero is an American journalist who has been the Caracas, Venezuela correspondent for The New York Times since 2006. Previously, he had been a Times correspondent based in Houston, Texas.

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Chávez Offers Public Defense Carlos the Jackal

CARACAS, Venezuela President Hugo Chávez is heaping praise on Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, the Venezuelan better known as Carlos the Jackal and implicated in hijackings and terror attacks across Europe in the 1970s and ’80s, describing him in a speech here ...

From SIMON ROMERO, International Herald Tribune,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Palestine Liberation Organization,  Patrice Lumumba,  OPEC

World Briefing | The Americas: Peru: Officer Says He Spied for Chile

Officials in President Alan García’s government said an air force officer had confessed to spying for Chile, escalating a diplomatic dispute between Peru and Chile. Javier Velásquez, chief of Mr. García’s cabinet, said Víctor Ariza, 45, a ...

From SIMON ROMERO, The New York Times,  17 Nov 2009

As Blackouts Hit Energy-Rich Venezuela, the President Tells People to Cut Back

CARACAS, Venezuela This country may be an energy colossus, with the largest conventional oil reserves outside the Middle East and one of the world’s mightiest hydroelectric systems, but that has not prevented it from enduring serious electricity and ...

From SIMON ROMERO, The New York Times,  10 Nov 2009

Ecosystem in Peru Is Losing a Key Ally

ICA, Peru A small grove of huarango, the storied Peruvian tree that can live over a millennium, rests like a mirage amid the sand dunes on this city’s edge. The tree has provided the inhabitants of this desert with food and timber since before the ...

From SIMON ROMERO, The New York Times,  7 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Cambridge University

World Briefing | The Americas: Venezuela: Indians Die From Swine Flu

The spread of the H1N1 virus to remote parts of the Amazon rain forest in Venezuela caused the deaths of at least five Yanomami Indians in the past two weeks, Venezuela’s health officials said Thursday. Health Minister Carlos Rotondaro said that a ...

From SIMON ROMERO, The New York Times,  5 Nov 2009

Michael Moore Finds Foes in Venezuela

CARACAS, Venezuela Michael Moore, the filmmaker who is a bête noire of conservatives in the United States, now appears to have made some enemies among the leftist supporters of President Hugo Chávez. During a recent appearance on ABC’s late-night ...

From SIMON ROMERO, International Herald Tribune,  25 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Michael Moore,  Jimmy Kimmel,  Oliver Stone

Las Gaviotas Journal: An Isolated Village Finds the Energy to Keep Going

LAS GAVIOTAS, Colombia In the 1960s, an aristocratic Colombian development specialist named Paolo Lugari took a road trip across these nearly uninhabited eastern plains, a region so remote and poor in soil quality that not even Colombia’s historic ...

From SIMON ROMERO, The New York Times,  15 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Amory Lovins,  Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia,  Pedro Guerrero

After 16 Years, Ecuador Oil Pollution Case Only Grows Murkier

QUITO, Ecuador The multibillion-dollar legal case between Amazon peasants and Chevron over oil pollution in Ecuador’s rain forest keeps unfolding more like a mystery thriller than a battle of briefs. Ever since the oil giant released videos in August ...

From SIMON ROMERO AND CLIFFORD KRAUSS, The New York Times,  9 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Chevron Corporation,  Barry Bonds,  Rafael Correa,  George Washington University

Puerto Ayora Journal: To Protect Galápagos, Ecuador Limits a Two-Legged Species

PUERTO AYORA, Galápagos Islands The mounds of reeking garbage on the edge of this settlement 600 miles off Ecuador’s Pacific coast are proof that one species is thriving on the fragile archipelago whose unique wildlife inspired Darwin’s theory of ...

From SIMON ROMERO, The New York Times,  5 Oct 2009

Related Topics: United Nations

Venezuela Says Iran Is Helping It Look for Uranium

A senior aide to Venezuela’s president, Hugo Chávez, said Friday that Iran was assisting Venezuela in the detection and testing of uranium deposits found in remote areas of Venezuela. The disclosure points to the importance Mr. Chávez has placed on the ...

From SIMON ROMERO, The New York Times,  25 Sep 2009

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