Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff, who is facing threats of impeachment and calls to resign from opposition politicians, says that attempting to use a crisis to take power is just a “modern version of a coup.”  And other commentators point to the “unconstitutional” nature of impeachment under the current circumstances, while the search for policy alternatives

What the candidates are saying about drug policy: sorting out the misinformation, half-truths, and sensible proposals. 

El Salvador’s ruling party plans to renew at least 30% percent of its leadership. 

After a decade of abundance, thanks to the high prices fetched on the global market by raw materials, the time has come for a market correction and Latin America is far from adequately prepared to deal with it.

Popular vigilante campaigns in Peru, such as the well-known and highly controversial “Chapa tu choro” (Corner your thief) movement which pressures ordinary citizens to become police, judge, and executioner, can be traced back to a brand of brutal populism made popular by disgraced former president Alberto Fujimori.

“No one is born a citizen; becoming one is a social construction that is conditioned by the cultural, social, economic, and political environment in which one lives.”

Famed Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Flórez will be heading this year’s VIVA Peru Festival in Mexico City.  

Carmen Balcells, whom Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa have called the “Mamá grande” of the Latin American Boom, has died at 85 years of age.

Although the most popular current bands in Uruguay held the lion’s share of nominations at the recent Graffiti Awards for Uruguayan music, the biggest winners were two artists who, despite being signed to major labels, represent the most alternative edge of the nation’s musical spectrum.

The Panama Canal and the Biomuseo joined forces to make a single touristic pack.