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Venezuela’s officials have announced the launch of a national cryptocurrency called Petro as a solution to fix the current economic state. The cryptocurrency will be backed by Venezuela’s oil, gas, gold, and diamond reserves and the officials plan to overcome the...
By Joshua Partlow To commemorate the new year, a mayoral candidate in a small Mexican town sent a Facebook message Sunday morning asking residents to unite to improve society. “We only need maturity, seriousness, and responsibility to face the challenges that confront...
By Karla S. Arismendi Venezuelans living in the poor sections of Caracas had new beef with the government this year: a shortage of the traditional pork leg for their holiday meals. In the past, the government’s Local Committee for Supply and Production (CLAP) has...
By Shannon K. O'Neil On the morning of October 17, 1945, thousands of protesters in Buenos Aires marched on Argentina’s main executive building, the Casa Rosada, to demand the return of Vice President Juan Perón, who had been forced to resign a week earlier. The day...
Peru’s culture minister Salvador del Solar has resigned amid continuing controversy over President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski’s decision to pardon the country’s former president, Alberto Fujimori. “I thank the president of the Republic for giving me the opportunity to...
Peru’s president has pardoned his ailing predecessor Alberto Fujimori from serving a 25-year sentence for crimes against humanity and corruption. In a written statement late Sunday, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski said that he decided to release Fujimori, 79, for “humanitarian...
Billionaire Sebastian Pinera will return to power as Chile's president next year, according to almost complete results from a runoff election held on Sunday. Electoral authorities said the 68-year-old conservative, who previously led the South American nation from...
President Nicolas Maduro announced Sunday that leading opposition parties will be barred from taking part in next year’s presidential vote after they boycotted mayoral polls. If it is enforced, the move would virtually assure Maduro's reelection in 2018 despite...
By Daniel Politi and Ernesto Londoño Judges overseeing Argentina’s most high-profile human rights trial sentenced 29 former officials to life in prison on Wednesday, in a case that documented the former military dictatorship’s widespread practice of killing civilians...
Iran's new naval commander has vowed to send warships to America's backyard. Rear Adm. Hossein Khanzadi said plans were being drawn up for vessels to be deployed to the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean "in the near future." They would also visit South American...
By Nate Erickson Alejandro Robaina lived through revolution, defied Fidel Castro, and traveled the globe for decades as an ambassador for Cuban tobacco. His plantation earned him recognition as the best grower in his home country, but the Cohiba cigars bearing his...
Argentina’s central bank raised the interest rate it charges banks to 28.75% from 27.25% on Tuesday, as inflation expectations rise, the monetary authority said in a statement. It was the bank’s second consecutive hike after a long period of holding the rate steady....
Latin America spends billions of dollars subsidizing fossil fuels each year, but also has some of the world's largest renewable power programs, highlighting the energy-hungry region's divisions as it charts its future. Exhibit A is Venezuela, estimated to have the...
Mexican drug cartels may be adopting the use of weaponized drones with remote detonators and even machine guns. On October 20, Mexican police pulled over four men in a pickup truck near the city of Salamanca in Guanajuato state, discovering an AK-47 rifle and an...
The governing coalition of President Mauricio Macri of Argentina won decisive victories in key districts across the country in midterm elections Sunday that were widely seen as a referendum on the center-right leader’s first two years in office. The election sweep...
By Salim Lamrani According to a recent international study, Cuba is the only country in Latin America and the Caribbean to have a high quality education system. The World Bank recently published a report on the status of education in Latin America and the Caribbean....
By Nicholas Casey Irma Rosales, tired after decades of tending her tiny store, sat back one morning with a box full of photos and remembered the stranger who was shot in the local schoolhouse 50 years ago. His hair was long and greasy, she said; his clothes so dirty...
The bullet-riddled body of a news photographer was found in central Mexico on Friday, state officials, putting 2017 on track to become the deadliest year yet for journalists in the notoriously violent country. Edgar Daniel Esqueda, 23, who worked with Metropoli San...
Willagers in the Peru Amazon have shut down 50 oil wells in protest against the negotiations of a new oil field development contract between Lima and Canadian Frontera Energy Group. The Amazon communities, who have been complaining for years about the environmental...
A massive 8.1-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of southern Mexico early Friday morning, killing at least five people and triggering a tsunami. The quake, which was felt as far away as Mexico City and Guatemala City, struck 74 miles (120 kilometers) off the...
