During recent years Venezuela has become the country with the world’s most stagnant economy and poorest rate of development. It heads the list on the Index of International Misery and has among the lowest credit ratings of any nation on earth, according to the Bloomberg Agency.

One of the main reasons for the rise of the Sendero Luminoso (The Shining Path) during the 1980s in Peru was the fact that the peasant uprisings of the previous decades had been crushed under the iron fist of the second Belaunde government, a political reconfiguration in which the rural population definitively lost its voice.

The latest fiscal reform bill in Mexico is raising hackles among several of that nation’s most powerful businessmen, many of whom are complaining that it will affect their companies’ capacity for future investment.

In his recent essay titled “Adiós al chavismo” (Goodbye to Chavism), Roland Denis bore witness to a Chavism that has already entered its decadent phase: a rancid ideology that “was forged as a subversive bet on the future that knew how to gather its strength at the right moment from what was left behind after

From the moment of his last presidential address, Mexican head-of-state Enrique Peña Nieto has gone on an attack campaign against “populism,” identifying it as an enemy, or at the very least, an antagonist.

The balance between exports and imports in Argentina in the period between January and August of this year is barely 1,487 million dollars, a 70% drop from the same period during 2014.

President Juan Manuel Santos and FARC leader Rodrigo Londoño announced that within six months a final peace agreement should be signed.  Their optimism was based in large part on their agreement over how to deal with the issue of war crimes in the almost 70 years of conflict.  The still tentative understanding involves a controversial

The mobility application called Waze recently published a study measuring driver satisfaction across the globe. The Global Driver Satisfaction Index surveyed 50 million users in 32 countries and 167 metropolitan areas. Bogotá, Colombia was rated among the worst cities to drive in.

Pig farming is necessary for survival in Cuba. But when there are so many pig farmers that one can hardly escape the smell, these pigs start to cause economic, environmental and health problems for the population.

The preparation of famous Guatemalan coffee can be the foundation of a café, making or breaking its business. Coffee in Guatemala is not like the Starbucks you can find on every corner in America.