Ten Mexico City women will join a global group of 500 women sponsored by Women4Climate who will combat climate change in their cities.

At the end of February 2018, the Venezuelan democratic opposition, loosely grouped in the Mesa de Unidad Democrática or MUD, announced that it will not be represented in the elections convened by the government of Nicolás Maduro for April 22, 2018, and called for a national boycott of what it defined as a fraudulent process.

The assassinated Archbishop of El Salvador, Óscar Arnulfo Romero, moved one giant step down the road toward sainthood with his beatification by the Roman Catholic Church on May 23, 2015.  The event occasioned celebrations throughout Latin America, and many observers argue that it revealed the radical nature of changes that Pope Francis is carrying out in

Guatemala’s government faced an expanding wave of criticism that left Vice President Roxana Baldetti particularly isolated after revelations of a multimillion dollar corruption scheme.   On April 17 a joint operation of the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG), the national police, and the Guatemalan Attorney General’s Office led to the arrest of current and

Just months into her second term, the Brazilian president faces a political and economic crisis driven by vocal (but not necessarily united) opposition forces, a scandal at the state-owned oil company (Petrobras), and a faltering economy.  The Petrobras corruption case and proposed fiscal adjustments have taken a toll on her approval numbers throughout the country. 

The tens of thousands of children showing up on the United States/Mexico border have generated plenty of interest in the Latin American media.  News outlets there have noted U.S. reactions, over reactions, and lack of reaction, the question of “security,” President Obama’s trip to Texas, and the political implications of the crisis.  They have explored

In mid June the U.S. Supreme Court declined to consider Argentina’s appeal of the ruling by U.S. Federal Judge Thomas Griesa of the Southern District of New York that it must pay holdouts to the restructuring deals it reached with creditors in 2005 and 2010.  The problem looming over the conflict is that if Argentina

The forty-fourth regular session of the General Assembly of the Organization of American States was held in Asunción, Paraguay from June 3 to June 5, 2014.  The theme proposed by the Paraguayan Foreign Ministry for general debate was “Development and Social Inclusion.”  Member states had various things to say about democracy, economic growth, inequality, and

In the months before the first round of Colombia’s presidential elections, incumbent Juan Manuel Santos of the Partido de “la U,” seemed headed for an easy victory, since his first term had benefited from steady economic growth, and he personally had gained popularity for initiating serious peace negotiations with the FARC guerrillas that have the

Demonstrations continued in Venezuela in early May 2014, as the government of President Nicolás Maduro moved to dismantle protest camps created by students.  His government also started to come under more international criticism of its handling of the crisis.  While Maduro contends that opposition forces want to destabilize the country, human rights groups, the United