Latin America News

During the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, as the United States battled the scourge of cocaine throughout the hemisphere, Washington did most of the talking. Latin American governments were forced to […]

Latin America and the Caribbean are the regions where efforts to eradicate hunger have made the greatest strides, according to a report released this week by the UN Food and […]

By Scott Gamm The 2016 U.S. presidential election is heating up and former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo has a message for the next Commander in Chief: Take Latin America seriously. […]

A total of 116 activists were killed around the world in 2014, with 87 losing their lives in Latin America, according to the report from Britain-based watchdogs Global Witness. Honduras […]

By Whitney Eulich As leaders from across Latin America and the Caribbean gather in Panama Friday for the seventh Summit of the Americas, diplomatic shifts unthinkable even a year ago […]

By Veronica Smink They appear little more than a bunch of old black-and-white photos the size of an A4 sheet of paper, with poorly defined images of armed men, battlefields […]

Latin American countries should discuss removing all U.S. military bases from their soil, a top official of UNASUR suggested. The issue may be discussed later this week at the Summit […]

By Edwin Mora  Gen. John Kelly, the top U.S. commander in Latin America and the Caribbean, has warned lawmakers that over the last 15 years, Iran has been building influence […]

By Kate Kilpatrick Latin America’s top officials appeared unanimous in their celebration Wednesday of a new chapter in United States-Cuba relations, which will witness the renewal of diplomatic ties and […]

A week after Costa Rica celebrated the 66th anniversary of the abolition of its armed forces, President Luis Guillermo Solís criticized growing arms spending in Latin America during a speech […]

Eco-warriors on the front lines of climate diplomacy often frame the environmental conflict between the developed and the developing world as a version of the notorious skirmish between Lawrence H. […]

While Latin America maintains its position as the world’s most murderous region, the number of murders in Ecuador is dropping sharply. As of July 2014, Ecuador showed an annual murder […]

The value of the Venezuelan bolívar has plummeted in the past month, depreciating from 102.56 to 159.02 per U.S. dollar on the black-market exchange. November’s decline indicates that Venezuela now […]

When former President Chávez died last year, leftist governments across the America also lost their most charismatic and radical leader. But the staying power of leftist governments points to their […]

Voters in last weekend’s elections in Uruguay and Brazil have something in common: They were legally required to cast a ballot. Both countries have compulsory voting, under which failure to […]

By Michael Fumento Step aside, EU! China is set to become Latin America’s second-largest trading partner in two years. And 13 years later it will be king of the hill […]

By Andres Oppenheimer   The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is scheduled to release its much-awaited 2015 economic projections for Latin America next week, and — judging from what I heard […]

Just as hackers from the Internet forum 4Chan were reportedly using a major vulnerability in Apple's iCloud system to leak private nude photos of celebrities, a distantly related hacking group […]

By Bruce R. Magid In the Colombian city of Medellín, nestled in a valley in the Andes Mountains, one can see the remnants of a tragic past and, at the […]

By Juan J. Palacios Considered for most of the twentieth century as the United States’ backyard, Latin America is today a place where other major powers seek to exercise a […]