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By Phil Keating Christy Ayers, her husband, Tom, and their two children came to Miami Beach for her 40th birthday. But when they stepped out to this world-famous beach, the celebrating immediately stopped, right on the sand. "We were shocked when we walked onto the...
A 175-hectare (430-acre) section of Colombia’s banana crop has been contaminated with the fusarium R4T fungus, the national agricultural institute said on Thursday, as it called for a countrywide effort to increase sanitary controls to contain the malady. The fungus,...
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has ordered his government's representatives not to travel to Barbados for scheduled talks with the political opposition starting on Thursday, blaming new U.S. sanctions for the impasse. Maduro "has decided to not send the...
By R.S. Gompertz About 20 years ago I told my restless sons a series of bedtime stories about a prince who was reticent to assume his duties. He was expected to become king over a group of islands located at the top of the world, but he was curious about what lay...
By Nacha Cattan At the nightclub door, a security guard checks every bag, pocket and makeup pouch with a mini flashlight. In the bathroom, another stands watch as drug dealers sell cocaine in bags marked with skulls. That guard escorts revelers into a stall where they...
By Ken Parks Paraguay plans to turn its remote, sparsely populated northwest into an international transport hub and a key link between ports on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of South America, in a proposal its government likens to a latter-day Panama Canal....
Venezuela has been hit by another massive power cut with the capital, Caracas, among the areas affected. As of noon Tuesday, power was slowly being restored after the blackout reportedly hit 16 of the country's 23 states as well as Caracas. Information Minister Jorge...
By June Webber and Frederica Cocca Once the world’s most prosperous emerging region, Latin America has fallen behind in recent years — due in part to its missing middle: a lack of medium-sized companies, and a shortage of middle-class consumers, according to recent...
By Alex Vasquez and Ben Bartenstein If Venezuelan politics weren’t convoluted enough, they just got a bit more complicated this week. The opposition-aligned Progressive Advance party hired Ari Ben-Menashe, a Montreal-based lobbyist, to “pursue Henri Falcon’s election...
The U.S. Department of State reissued a travel advisory cautioning against travel to Peru on July 18. Certain areas in the South American country have increased risk, according to the State Department. The advisory was similar to the one issued for Colombia in June....
Editor's note: This is a first of a series of articles about exploring Latin America. By R.S. Gompertz Coca leaf was the original special ingredient in America’s now favorite soft drink. The “intellectual beverage” was advertised to be a “valuable brain tonic and cure...
By Carlos Eduardo Pina On January 23, when U.S.-backed opposition leader Juan Guaido declared himself interim president of Venezuela, he thought deposing President Nicolas Maduro from power would be easy. He had a simple, three-thronged plan: declare Maduro's...
Colombia is working to halt scores of slayings of community leaders by criminal groups and remnant bands of rebels following the country’s historic 2016 peace deal, President Ivan Duque said on Friday, during a visit from the UN Security Council. The peace agreement...
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's right-hand man Diosdado Cabello has ruled out early elections despite talks between representatives of the government and the opposition in Barbados. Maduro's removal from office has been a key demand of the opposition, which is...
As it has for almost a decade, Venezuela’s murder rate leads all South American countries. In fact, its rate of more than 81 homicides per 100,000 residents is the highest in the world, far ahead of El Salvador’s 51 and Honduras’ 40. Trailing Venezuela in South...
Talks between the Venezuelan opposition and the government of President Nicolas Maduro to resolve the country's political crisis will resume this week in Barbados but the countries most affected by the millions of Venezuelans leaving home have low expectations for the...
Amid the worst economic meltdown in Venezuela's history — a crisis that has forced thousands of businesses to shut their doors — one unlikely product is flying off the shelves: the equivalent of Venezuelan tequila. Called cocuy, the alcoholic beverage was first...
By Taylor Goebel Crime and violence in Latin America and the Caribbean come with a hefty price tag — $261 billion, or about 3.5 percent of the region's gross domestic product in 2018, according to a new study by the Inter-American Development Bank that analyzed the...
Mexican university students are taking to the streets, demanding that the government go after criminal gangs they say murder with impunity. Student leaders claim that the government is intimidated by gangs and cartels and fails to mount effective investigations and...
Peruvian authorities have detained two men suspected of lynching a Canadian man in a remote part of the country's Amazon rainforest in an apparent reprisal attack for the killing of a respected indigenous leader. The suspects were identified by a video posted to...
