16,000 Colombians have been displaced from their homes in Venezuela as the border crisis between Venezuela and Colombia continues.  The OAS refuses to meet in order to discuss the issue, Maduro calls out Santos for not engaging in dialogue about the matter, and the Pope believes everything will work out just fine. 

On the 200th anniversary of Bolívar’s Carta de Jamaica, the vision for unity between Colombia and Venezuela outlined in the famous document is being overshadowed by the human rights violations that are taking place on the border between the two nations.  

María Ampudia González spoke on human trafficking during the Manuel Rodríguez Lapuente conference, organized by the Union of Academic Workers of the University of Guadalajara (STAUdeG). She revealed some astonishing statistics and made some bold statements about Mexico and the future.

Once a year, the Mexican embassy organizes a Sixth Grade Best Achievement Contest through its Schools of Mexico Program. The contest showcases the region’s most brilliant students, reflecting both the ambition of the children and the good work of their teachers.

The First National Youth Survey (NYS), arranged by the Indec (National Census and Statistical Institute), details the patterns of transitions between the stages of life in Argentina, including working, studying, becoming independent, beginning parenthood, violent situations, and social commitments.

Mira, short for “miracle,” is the fifth fastest supercomputer in the world. A $200 million machine, it requires more than 200 cabinets of hardware and wiring to function. The massive device has 400 square meters (about 4300 square feet) of surface area and allows humans to investigate issues of the world that would normally be

The Brazil’s reign on the stock exchanges in Latin America for the last 20 years is coming to an end.

Colombian exports have remained enormously dependent on primary resource sectors, especially oil and mining. 

Economic Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz argues that the source of growth in the U.S. and the World before 2006 was the housing bubble and stocks, both built by central banks.

Thirty-one percent of young employees have private sector jobs, more than 1.5 million, though the rest worked in the public sector by the end of 2014, according to official data.