The national secretary of Good Living, Freddy Ehlers, was in France to “spread the idea of ​​good living as an indicator for countries rather than wealth and development.” 

Remittances to Latin America and the Caribbean set a new record high in 2014 with $65 billion dollars, according to the Inter-American Development Bank. 

So said the governor of Buenos Aires’ campaign chief. 

Colombia began testing new herbicides’ effectiveness in destroying coca plants after glyphosate, the original chemical used in coca fumigation, was declared to be carcinogenic and subsequently banned by President Juan Manuel Santos. 

The confession by the murderer of four children in Caquetá illustrates how Colombia’s internal conflict has permeated social and economic relations. 

According to figures from the Guatemalan Police, 13,156 women and 12,036 men went missing. 

The United Nations noted that a quarter of the violent deaths in the world occur in a group of countries accounting for just 4% of the world population.  

The theater company Os Fofos Encenam was forced to cancel its performance of a play entitled “The Wife of the Train,” scheduled for May 12th at the Itaú Cultural Institute in São Paulo, due to widespread accusations of racism on social media.

The Colombian filmmaker Lisandro Duque claims that the literary works of Gabriel García Márquez are unfilmable, this despite the Nobel Prize winner’s passion for cinema.

Members of the Mexican delegation to this year’s Buenos Aires Book Fair discussed future prospects for their nation’s literature.