Latin America News

Uruguay turned into an international star in the drug legalization movement when it became the first country in the world to approve the growth, sale and distribution of marijuana. But […]

El Salvador has joined four other Latin American countries in recalling its Israel ambassador from Tel Aviv in protest at the military's ground and air offensive in the Gaza Strip. […]

No sooner had Juan Manuel Santos, Colombia’s president, secured himself a second term in a run-off election in June than he announced that he wants to prevent such a thing […]

By Margaret Zeigler and Ginya Truitt Nakata Population growth and dramatic diet changes are placing agriculture and the natural resource base under great stress worldwide. As the largest net food […]

By Nicole Akoukou Thompson Dead Guatemalan women are being dumped in alleyways, dropped by the roadside, and deserted in parks, bodies bound by trash bags, plastic blankets, or left bare […]

By Ben Casselman In 1994, California Governor Pete Wilson aired television ads showing people scrambling across the Mexican border near San Diego. “The rules are being broken,” a narrator intoned. […]

For Colombia this week, two worlds collide. Its captivating side — led by the tournament’s star man James Rodriguez — is preparing for its first ever World Cup quarterfinal on […]

Latin America is in a better position to face the effects of the climatic event El Niño, forecast for this year, than on previous occasions due to fiscal improvements in […]

For a dirt-road town without running water or a sewerage system, fibreglass Triceratops and T-rex may not be a top priority. The regional government of Arequipa in Peru disagrees, recently […]

By Benjamin Dangl “Soccer, metaphor for war, at times turns into real war,” wrote Uruguayan author Eduardo Galeano. For many people in Brazil, a war has indeed broken out surrounding […]

By Michael Warren Argentina’s government has finally agreed to try to negotiate a payment plan for the $1.5 billion in bad debts and interest it owes to the U.S. hedge […]

Much of Latin America’s identity is shaped by coffee; its importance is difficult to overstate. Beyond being a delicacy and a morning-time motivator in Latin America and abroad, it is […]

In the past 15 years, China has gone from being a relatively insignificant economic partner in Latin America to the number-one trading partner of some of the largest economies in […]

By Jorge Familiar It is no coincidence that the Globe International network of legislators has chosen Mexico as the venue for the Second World Summit of Legislators on climate change […]

The end of a decade-long boom driven by cheap money and strong commodity prices has deeply divided Latin America between fast-growth countries along the Pacific coast and stragglers on the […]

Latin America has the world's highest murder rates, deep poverty and big gaps between rich and poor. But that doesn't seem to be getting in the way of the region's […]

For as long as anyone can remember, Latin America has been a region where it was easy to avoid paying taxes, particularly for businesses. Making sales off the books and […]

Latin American author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1982, died Thursday. He was 87. Garcia Marquez, the master of a style known as magic […]

Latin America is the world’s most violent region, accounting for nearly one in three global homicides, according to data from a new study by the United Nations. Latin America racked […]

Latin American cities may be diverse but they hold one similarity: the speed and scale of urbanization they are facing. Distinct from developed countries, where urbanization has historically occurred gradually, […]