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By Simon Romero It was not a banner day for Latin America’s leftists. Colombia rejected a peace deal with Marxist rebels on Sunday, delivering a very public victory to the conservative former president who campaigned passionately against it. On the same day, voters in...
Colombian voters have shocked the world by narrowly rejecting a peace agreement with Farc rebels. The "no" vote carried Sunday's referendum, garnering 50.24% of the ballots cast. The peace deal to end a six-decades long civil war was signed last week by Colombian...
By Rodrigo Ortiz Venezuela Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez denounced the existence of U.S. military bases in Latin American Thursday at the third annual Latin American Summit of Progressive Movements in Quito. According to Rodriguez, the bases only provoke conflict...
It is a conflict that lasted over five decades. An estimated 220,000 people killed. Five million displaced. These staggering figures will by consigned to history Monday as the Colombian government buries the hatchet with its long-time nemesis, the Marxist...
Leaders of the opposition to Venezuealan President Nicolas Maduro called Thursday’s march the “largest national mobilization in decades” and said protests would continue until the government agrees to a national referendum that could oust Maduro from power. Although...
By Hannah Dreier The people waiting for hours in front of the Caracas drugstore were dazed with heat and boredom when the gunmen arrived. The robbers demanded a cellphone from a 25-year-old in black shorts. Instead of handing it over, Junior Perez took off toward the...
By Fabio Rafael Fiallo Latin America’s hard-left — the left enraptured by Fidel Castro’s 57-year-old Cuban Revolution and Hugo Chavez’s 21st Century Socialism — has been losing terrain, indeed collapsing, both on efficiency and on moral grounds. Countries ruled by...
By Franco Ordoñez When it comes to Cuba, Venezuela and the rest of Latin America, the Democrats see Hillary Clinton mostly continuing the policies of engagement pressed forward by President Barack Obama, but not much else. Republicans, on the other hand, largely want...
Latam Airlines has permanently discontinued operations in Venezuela, saying the route is no longer economically feasible. "Latam makes this decision due to the inability to repatriate capital", the airline said in a press release. Annual inflation in Venezuela is...
By David Huey The legacy of the U.S.-funded war on drugs in Latin America is profound even as its impact has been temporary and geographically limited. Since the 1970s, the U.S. has spent more than a trillion dollars attempting to dismantle drug cartels in Latin...
By Nick Miroff The dynamite crew in La Pampa, Peru set the charges and ordered everyone back. They put explosives beneath the miners’ hammocks and in the outdoor kitchen, where potatoes were still hot on the stove. More fuses were placed in the processing shed nearby,...
By Ana Vanessa Herrero Margelys Cardona sits in her hospital bed in Caracas, Venezuela, eating a cracker slowly, surrounded by flies and cockroaches as she thinks of happier times when she wasn't starving and in desperate need of a kidney transplant. She's pale and...
By Melissa Healy Researchers modeling the rampant spread of the Zika virus say that, like a wildfire consuming a parched landscape, the epidemic that has caused a plague of birth defects in Brazil is already showing signs of slowing and is likely to largely...
By Trish Novicio Have you ever wondered about the best places to visit in Latin America that are both beautiful and safe? Latin America is the home of ultimate adventures: trekking to Machu Picchu, hiking at Torres del Paine, swimming in Galapagos, sunbathing,...
For the second consecutive year, Buenos Aires is the most expensive city in Latin America for expats. The Argentine capital ranks 41 among 209 cities in an international survey, according to the annual Cost of Living survey by consulting firm Mercer. The report noted...
By Lizbeth Diaz and Natalie Schachar At least eight people were killed in clashes in southern Mexico over the weekend when police and members of a teachers' union faced off in violent confrontations, a senior state official said, piling fresh pressure on the country's...
By Ruchir Sharma In April last year I caught up with Chile’s richest man, Sebastian Piñera, in the surprisingly modest Santiago office to which he returned after leaving the presidential mansion. A billionaire who made his money in the credit card business, Piñera...
By Robert Muggah During the 1980s, El Salvador was the single largest recipient of U.S.-issued military hardware in the Western Hemisphere. All manner of weaponry—including over 32,500 M-16s and 270,000 grenades—seeped into the country from 1980 to 1993. Most of it...
By Tim Padgett Last week Brazil’s Senate voted overwhelmingly to impeach and suspend the country’s President, Dilma Rousseff. She now faces a long trial on charges of illegally using state bank funds to cover up big budget deficits. Rousseff is caught up in an angry...
By Richard N. Haass Latin America has plenty of real problems and challenges. But for the most part, these are matters of political and economic governance, state capacity, and corruption within states. Missing almost entirely are problems stemming from relations...
