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.

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.