Violence continues to plague Río de Janeiro, with several shootings, murders, and robberies per day. 

The pre-trial detention and imprisonment of the son and brother of President Jimmy Morales was approved by Commisioner Iván Valásquez as a call to Guatemalans to reflect on the culture of legality.

Transparency International has released the 2016 Index of Corruption Perception, with Venezuela ranking as the most corrupt country in Latin America.

Increasingly threatened by business interests, the Zápara people of Ecuador’s Amazonian jungle region are trying to survive by turning to tourism.

Brazil is the fourth country in the world with the biggest number of jail inmates, after the U.S.A, Russia, and China.

Despite significant progress in the way of women’s rights around the world, the rural areas of Cuba have yet to catch up on equality around the home and the workplace.

Bullfight-lovers rejoiced in Colombia’s capital city when bullfighting returned to Bogotá after a years-long ban. Not everyone, however, was pleased with the reinstatement of the fights.

A joint report from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) uncovered shocking statistics regarding the region’s health.

A sculpture of Francisco Pizarro, the Spanish conquistador that toppled the Incan Empire, has been relocated multiple times in efforts to appease the citizens of Lima who claim Pizarro represents the brutality of Spanish rule in Peru.

For too long the notion of “machismo” has cast doubt and shame upon survivors of sexual assault, and for three Argentinian women, the decision to stand up against these heinous acts has created a movement.