During the World Cup in Brazil U.S. Vice President Joe Biden visited President Dilma Rousseff.  This was an important step towards the resumption of bilateral relations, seriously shaken last year by American espionage against Brazilian companies, citizens, and even President Rousseff herself. 

The U.S. sent Latin American youths to Cuba to push for political change; it didn’t go well. 

After six years of living in Honduras Matthew Keister thinks he knows why children and adolescents, “at least those from the La Ceiba area,” (where he lives) are leaving for the United States, either with coyotes or entirely on their own.