“I’m from the generation that, from a certain distance, learned about the ‘flannel cut,’ about rivers as tombs, the burning of property, about peasants fleeing their land, that generation which always had a relative (whether distant or close) who was a victim of violence.” 

After a decade of abundance, thanks to the high prices fetched on the global market by raw materials, the time has come for a market correction and Latin America is far from adequately prepared to deal with it.

Popular vigilante campaigns in Peru, such as the well-known and highly controversial “Chapa tu choro” (Corner your thief) movement which pressures ordinary citizens to become police, judge, and executioner, can be traced back to a brand of brutal populism made popular by disgraced former president Alberto Fujimori.

“No one is born a citizen; becoming one is a social construction that is conditioned by the cultural, social, economic, and political environment in which one lives.”

New questions raised about the Mexican government’s official report regarding the 2014 Ayotzinapa massacre are reopening national wounds on the eve of event’s first anniversary. 

International pressure to accept refugees from the conflict in the Levant is now making itself felt in Peru.

Recent charges pressed by Colombia’s District Attorney’s Office against well-known actress and singer Carolina Sabino for having an abortion are raising new questions about the legal status of the procedure in the South American nation.

The Colombian government has done its best to hide the alarming unemployment crisis in the country, attempting to distract voters’ attention from the issue even as international credit agencies consider lowering the country’s credit rating.

La Nación’s “blitz” against the Buenos Aires Herald continues into its ninth month, the latest attack being launched by Pablo Sirvén, one of the newspaper’s managing editors.

During his third presidential address, Mexican head-of-state Enrique Peña Nieto warned his nation of the dangers of populism.