During recent years Venezuela has become the country with the world’s most stagnant economy and poorest rate of development. It heads the list on the Index of International Misery and has among the lowest credit ratings of any nation on earth, according to the Bloomberg Agency.

One of the main reasons for the rise of the Sendero Luminoso (The Shining Path) during the 1980s in Peru was the fact that the peasant uprisings of the previous decades had been crushed under the iron fist of the second Belaunde government, a political reconfiguration in which the rural population definitively lost its voice.

The latest fiscal reform bill in Mexico is raising hackles among several of that nation’s most powerful businessmen, many of whom are complaining that it will affect their companies’ capacity for future investment.

In his recent essay titled “Adiós al chavismo” (Goodbye to Chavism), Roland Denis bore witness to a Chavism that has already entered its decadent phase: a rancid ideology that “was forged as a subversive bet on the future that knew how to gather its strength at the right moment from what was left behind after

From the moment of his last presidential address, Mexican head-of-state Enrique Peña Nieto has gone on an attack campaign against “populism,” identifying it as an enemy, or at the very least, an antagonist.

The balance between exports and imports in Argentina in the period between January and August of this year is barely 1,487 million dollars, a 70% drop from the same period during 2014.

It should be recalled that the Argentine writer Rodolfo Walsh is the true founder of what would eventually be referred to as the New Journalism.

Not since the War of the Pacific has Bolivia had a diplomatic and political victory against Chile like that represented by the latest decision by the International Criminal Court. Rejecting the latter country’s claim that it is no position to analyze the maritime lawsuit brought against it by Bolivia, the Court weighed in on a

“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.