The government of Panama aims to increase tourism this year with a renewal of their international promotion campaign touting their nation as a destination for shopping, beaches, cultural and nature trips.

Despite having received the proposed impact studies on the environment nearly two months ago, neither the Nicaraguan government nor HKND has fulfilled the promise to make them public. 

Drought conditions have severely affected harvests leaving more than 161,000 families at risk for food shortages. 

A symposium was held recently in La Paz to discuss the desertification of 60% of Bolivia’s arable land. 

The impoverished community of Playa Ostional in Guanacaste, Costa Rica is finding a way to improve the turtle population, and at the same time benefit themselves.

There has been progress with basic services in education, health and housing, but the big problem is rising food prices outrunning increases in household income. 

The Left needs to find a candidate who can break the 1% mark. 

Parties must be horizontal, pluralistic, and tolerant civic networks savvy in the ways of modern media. 

The increase in economic inequality is characterized by the concentration of income in the upper echelons of society. It’s a phenomenon that has been growing since 1980 and is now evident across the developed world.  But it is also a clear and continuing trend in developing countries, exacerbated by local factors.

Many presidents of various political persuasions find themselves under considerable political pressure.