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By Michael Morgan Weak investment, low productivity and inadequate education have doomed Latin America to a period of economic failure worse than the “lost decade” of the 1980s, according to the region’s top UN economic official. José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, the new...
More than 32% of Latin Americans live in poverty, with 13% of those living in extreme poverty, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (Cepal) reported Thursday. “An unprecedented cascade of external shocks has created a slowdown in economic...
More than 58,000 suspected gang members have been arrested in El Salvador since President Nayib Bukele declared “war” on criminal groups seven months ago and that number is about to increase. On Tuesday, the national legislature authorized more money and “all force...
By Lucien Chauvin, photos by Alessandro Cinque Rufino Quico remembers when his pastures turned green each November as spring rains arrived on the high Andean plain where his herd of 380 alpacas grazes. Quico was born in Lagunillas and lives in the same adobe house as...
By Julie Turkewitz, Photos by Federico Rios In the darkness, the little girl called out for her mother, her tiny form lit by the moon. The two had left their home in Venezuela a week before, bound for the United States. To get there, though, they would have to cross a...
By Alex Raulerson In Mexico's booming auto industry, the cars rolling off assembly lines may look identical, but how safe they are depends on where they're headed. Vehicles destined to stay in Mexico or go south to the rest of Latin America, including Ecuador, carry a...
By Gideon Lasco “Do you eat guinea pig?” I asked Leonardo. We were perusing the menu in a restaurant in Lima, and I wanted to know what my Peruvian friend thought of the practice of eating cuy (the Spanish term for guinea pig used in parts of the Andes mountains)....
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has been elected the next president of Brazil, in a stunning comeback following a tight run-off race on Sunday. His victory heralds a political about-face for Latin America’s largest country, after four years of Jair Bolsonaro’s far-right...
By Paula Ramón For a momentary respite from the confinement of the COVID pandemic, Elinor Zamora went up to the roof of her building to breathe in the outside air. There, in 2020, she encountered a surprising sight: She watched dozens of huge, colorful macaws gather...
By Tracy Wilkinson When Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken was meeting with Pedro Castillo in Lima, the Peruvian president was facing impeachment for a litany of charges — and not for the first time. More than 2,500 miles to the north on the same day, in Mexico...
By Jim Morrisey Latin America is not taking the new global agreement to limit mercury emissions seriously say a number of environmental advocates. After the European Union banned exports of mercury in 2011 and the United States did in 2013, trade in the deadly metal...
By Manuela Andreoni The world’s forests are increasingly threatened and the main thing keeping some of them alive are the people, many of them Indigenous, standing up against those who want to clear the land. Today, I want to explain why life is becoming increasingly...
President Jair Bolsonaro outperformed expectations in Brazil’s election Sunday, proving that the far-right wave he rode to power four years ago remains a force as he fought his way into a runoff against leftist former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The...
By Nelson Bocanegra With a machete across his chest, sugar cane worker Aldemar Moreno guards the entrance to the farm where he has been employed for 23 years, ready to defend it from land occupations by groups indigenous and others that have exploded in Colombia. ....
A massive trove of emails from Mexico’s Defense Department is among electronic communications taken by a group of hackers from military and police agencies across several Latin American countries, Mexico’s president confirmed Friday. In statements, the hackers claim...
By David Leonhardt A single country has accounted for about 80 percent of the fishing in the international waters just off Argentina, Ecuador and Peru this year. And it is not a South American country. It is China. In recent years, hundreds of Chinese fishing vessels...
By Shafik Meghji In a stretch of the Bolivian Amazon known as the Llanos de Moxos, the sultry port of Loma Suárez takes its name from a notorious rubber baron who built a mansion and ranch beside a loma (hill) overlooking the Ibare River. During the late 19th and...
By Michael Lee Large Chinese drug networks are helping fuel the U.S. fentanyl crisis, a situation Beijing has little incentive to combat amid deteriorating relations with Washington. "Since approximately 2013, China has been the principal source of the fentanyl...
In his first address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, recently elected Colombian president Gustavo Petro delivered a fiery speech that recalled some of his campaign themes, slamming the war on drugs as a failure and accusing the global north of...
By Oscar Medina Colombia needs to carefully reduce fuel subsidies in order to lower the fiscal deficit without exacerbating its inflation problem, according to the nation’s finance chief. Jose Antonio Ocampo,estimates that subsidies on gasoline and diesel given...
