As many as 40 million people stayed home, while hundreds of thousands protested in the streets against government reforms.

There are around 8,000 words, which originated in Honduras, that have been accepted by the Real Academia Española.

Ecuador just experienced the first electoral campaign in which social networks and technology played a vital role.

Thousands of vendors of used garments took to the streets around Bolivia on April 21, protesting against a new law proposed by the government that would supposedly threaten their livelihood.

A national study released on April 24th by the Federação do Comércio do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Fecomércio-RJ) about the cultural habits of Brazilians revealed that 56% of the 86 million people surveyed attended at least one cultural activity in the last year, which was a 3% increase from 2015.

An activist for racial equality named Dandara Tonantzin Castro posted on Facebook about racially motivated aggression that she experienced at a graduation party in Uberlândia, Minas Gerias.

Even though specialists have disproved myths about appropriate water intake, they discovered that many Argentines are addicted to drinking water—in other words, they are “potomaniacs.”

Not only did the Constitutional Court’s ruling unblock the establishment of the Zonas de Reserva Campesina, but it may also relieve tensions between natives and campesinos.

The Uruguayan Senate recently voted on a draft law, which frames femicide as a very special “aggravating circumstance” of homicide.

A group of 26 men dressed in long red robes, devil horns, and dramatic diablo masks sat in on Good Friday services in Quito’s Santo Tomás de Aquino church in the neighborhood of Alangasí.