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By Zhang Chun As Chinese loans pour into Latin America, concerns over how the money is spent and how it will be repaid are growing on both sides of the bargaining table. Of most immediate concern for China is whether economically unstable governments such as Venezuela...
By J. Tadeo An activist and former public servant in Mexico is leading an unorthodox campaign to rub politicians’ faces in the public's dissatisfaction. Arne aus den Ruthen Haag is promoting a movement called #JitomatazoMx, rallying people on social media to collect...
By Anastasia Moloney Peru’s deadly floods are a wake-up call for cities across Latin America to prepare better for extreme weather as climate change and poor urban planning, alongside rapid population growth, worsen the problem of flooding, experts say. In Peru, the...
By Emma Rumney The Latin America and Caribbean region continued to close its tax gap with other countries in 2015, rebuffing the impact of the collapse in commodity prices on revenues, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has found. Tax...
The Mexican Catholic church says that any company or individual that assists U.S. President Donald Trump in constructing a wall on the U.S.-Mexican border "should be considered traitors to the country." "Companies, especially those from Mexico, with intentions of...
By Aleszu Bajak Last year, a mosquito-borne disease ravaged Latin America. As the virus spread, so did photos of black-and-white-striped mosquitoes, public health authorities spraying clouds of insecticide, and brain-damaged babies. Zika quickly became a household...
By Frederic Puglie Bolivia is doubling the amount of land devoted to coca production, while Colombia says illegal production of the plant used to produce cocaine has spiked to its highest levels in at least two decades. Rising bilateral tensions put in doubt Mexico’s...
Mexico insists that it will not accept citizens of other Latin American countries deported by the U.S. The warning followed a statement earlier in the week from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that it planned to send undocumented aliens from other Central and...
Bribery charges against Odebrecht, the largest construction company in Latin America, are reverberating throughout the region, where Odebrecht had multiple contracts to build major infrastructure projects. Brazil-based Odebrecht faces accusations of paying bribes not...
Citizens of Venezuela have reportedly begun hunting vulnerable wildlife including flamingos and anteaters for sustenance, in response to the country’s dire food shortages. A grisly new report from the Miami Herald describes the rise of this unusual hunting practice....
By Lucia Newman Outrageous. Disgusting. Nauseating. These are just a few of the long list of qualifiers against the new U.S. Donald Trump administration's announcement to go ahead with building the infamous wall separating the United States from the rest of America....
A United Nations report is predicting that after contracting for two consecutive years, the economies of Latin America and the Caribbean are expected to return to positive growth in 2017. But the World Economic Situation and Prospects 2017 Report released here this...
By Carlos Harrison China has big plans for Latin America—plans that seem to reflect China itself: massive and ambitious. There are plans for a $10 billion, 3,300-mile-long transcontinental railroad snaking through the jungles of the Amazon river basin and over the...
Editor's note: The Latin American media are taking perverse delight in the prospect that Russian espionage may have played a role in last month's election of Donald Trump as president of the U.S. For decades, U.S. resources were used to install right-wing puppet...
By Antonio De la Jara and Rosalba O'Brien A "unique" burst of activity at a little-known volcanic complex near the Chile-Argentina border has attracted the interest of international scientists and led worried governments to plan for a potentially devastating eruption....
By Franco Ordoñez President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Homeland Security has warned that terrorists could use human smuggling routes to bring weapons of mass destruction into the United States. It’s just one of the alarm bells retired Marine...
By Will Grant It is hard to overstate exactly how important Fidel Castro was to Cubans. Whether he was their beloved revolutionary hero and liberator or if they saw him as a despot and tyrant, the name Castro has been an intrinsic part of their lives for decades. So...
Cuba's Fidel Castro, one of the world's longest-serving and most iconic leaders, has died aged 90. His death, in conjunction with continuing efforts to achieve peace between leftist rebels and the Colombian government, appears to drop the curtain on six decades of...
By Joshua Goodman An expected U.S. economic retreat from Latin America under Donald Trump is causing the region's leaders to look halfway around the world, to China, for help weathering the possible financial headwinds. They'll have the perfect opportunity to make...
By Jorge G. Castañeda Despite U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s crude behavior, insulting rhetoric, and vicious incitement over the past year and a half, the mantra in the coming days will inevitably be that it is time to move forward. His opponent, Hillary Clinton,...
