The Cuban government still demands that the United States lift the economic embargo and close the military base at Guantánamo Bay. 

The State Department’s annual human rights report for 2014 put Cuba and Venezuela on its “black list,” but also had plenty of criticism to pass around for other countries in the region.

According to Armando Monteiro, Minister of Development, Industry, and External Trade, Brazil’s president is seeking to normalize standards with the U.S.  and reboot relations.

Venezuelan Foreign Minister Delcy Rodríguez, and Diosdado Cabello, the President of the National Assembly, met with U.S. Department of State officials in Haiti with the aim of finding a way to improve relations between the two countries. 

More than 10,000 gang members remain in Salvadoran prisons and another 60,000 are estimated to be on the streets. 

You can excuse Argentine government officials if they seem like they’ve been gloating a bit lately. Turns out they got some “we told you so” news from an unlikely source: U.S. District Judge Thomas Griesa.  

In a decision that marks “a before and after” in U.S./Cuban relations, the administration of President Barack Obama confirmed the Caribbean country’s removal from the list of states sponsoring terrorism. 

Some pundits think Latin America should look north instead of east.  Patricio Navia is among them. 

The media conglomerate Clarín and Elliott Management hide cash in a building famous for its secrecy. 

Rigidly codified in a small handful of laws, especially the infamous Helms-Burton Act, the embargo can only be removed by Congress.