According to Armando Monteiro, Minister of Development, Industry, and External Trade, Brazil’s president is seeking to normalize standards with the U.S.  and reboot relations.

Venezuelan Foreign Minister Delcy Rodríguez, and Diosdado Cabello, the President of the National Assembly, met with U.S. Department of State officials in Haiti with the aim of finding a way to improve relations between the two countries. 

More than 10,000 gang members remain in Salvadoran prisons and another 60,000 are estimated to be on the streets. 

You can excuse Argentine government officials if they seem like they’ve been gloating a bit lately. Turns out they got some “we told you so” news from an unlikely source: U.S. District Judge Thomas Griesa.  

In a decision that marks “a before and after” in U.S./Cuban relations, the administration of President Barack Obama confirmed the Caribbean country’s removal from the list of states sponsoring terrorism. 

Some pundits think Latin America should look north instead of east.  Patricio Navia is among them. 

The media conglomerate Clarín and Elliott Management hide cash in a building famous for its secrecy. 

Rigidly codified in a small handful of laws, especially the infamous Helms-Burton Act, the embargo can only be removed by Congress. 

Mexico’s national government was called on to do the dirty work. 

The former prisoners of the U.S. prison in Guantánamo, Cuba that arrived in Uruguay as refugees last December have reached an agreement over conditions for settling in the country.