El Organismo de Evaluación y Fiscalización Ambiental (OEFA) of Peru and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of the United States signed an interagency cooperation agreement with the aim of strengthening the capacities of both organizations to guarantee protection of the environment and human health in both countries.

Every year, the U.S. Department of State publishes a report to Congress in which it evaluates foreign governments in their efforts to combat the drug trade.

Colombia has a very unproductive workplace due in part to a culture of informality and the country’s poor education system.

Honduras’ new prison has many of the same characteristics as jails in the United States. The maximum-security complex is composed of a hydraulic cast that leaves no room for communication between prisoners and is constantly monitored under 24-hour surveillance.

The farming lobby of Argentina has successfully pressured the Argentine government to rewrite that country’s notorious Seed Law, which favored such seed distributors as Monsanto, the largest operator of its kind in the country.

President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela has blamed his county’s economic crisis not only on plummeting oil prices, but also on targeted financial persecution coming from the United States government.

The United States, after a period of relative isolation, is re-entering the Latin American political and economic sphere with relatively little to offer.

For quite a while, Puerto Rico has maintained a “closed door” policy towards foreign investors from outside the US or Europe, but it is now looking to South America, especially Peru and Colombia, as commercial partners.

Cuban musicians and others will benefit tremendously from normalization of relations with the US.

The 24-year partnership of Univision Communications Inc. and its programming provider, Grupo Televisa SAB, is strained as a result of shifting tastes among young Hispanic viewers.