“I was in a shopping center last Monday when a stranger threw himself to his death from an upper floor. It all happened in an instant: I heard a woman screaming, I saw people running desperately toward me. I approached the tumult where several curious people were impatiently observing the intense labor of medical personnel

Arturo Menéndez’s new feature film La malacrianza (Rudeness) began life in October of 2008 when the director was approached by a stranger looking to tell him his story.

Spending by Brazilian tourists on international trips is way down.  

Tayrona National Park will be closed to tourists in November due to ongoing drought and indigenous inhabitants’ complaints about tourists. 

Santa Ana de los Cuatro Ríos de Cuenca, “thanks to the vigor of its people and its natural endowments,” has become one of the most “important and modern” cities in Ecuador. 

Structural rupture threatens a glacier in Lake Argentina’s ecosystem.  The glacier is currently acting as a dam between the majority of the body’s water mass and a smaller offshoot of the lake. 

Drought in Nicaragua has led locals along with domestic and foreign Red Cross officials to turn to new forms of irrigation in order to beat the lack of rain. 

Rapid deforestation in Paraguay is causing alarm among the locals, who worry that their way of life and even their health could become affected. 

On Wednesday, the United Nations General Assembly chose Venezuela, Ecuador, and Panama to be members of the Human Rights Council for the next three years. They will begin on January first. 

According to the 2016 World Bank Doing Business report released by the secretariats of Economy (SE) and Finance (SHCP), Mexico became the Latin American country easiest to do business with.