The “sub-national” elections in March 2015 will mark another democratic struggle for power. The ruling party aims to win nine governorships, and is preparing its strategies. 

A group of poets, intellectuals, and representatives of victims’ organizations from various countries expressed their solidarity with relatives of the 43 missing normal school students of Ayotzinapa, disappeared in what they described as a “state crime.” 

President Ollanta Humala said that the position of the Peruvian government with respect to the so-called “terrestrial triangle” is clear and “consistent” with the 1929 Treaty signed with Chile.  

Analysts weighed the impact of President Dilma Rousseff’s reelection on Colombia. 

At the beginning of the civil war, thousands of children who survived operations by the military were taken, had their identities altered, and were sent to adoption centers abroad as part of the international black market in children. 

The largest and smallest countries of Spanish and Portuguese speaking Latin America (in terms of population) voted in presidential elections on October 26, 2014.  In Brazil the second round confirmed the reelection of President Dilma Rousseff of the leftist PT or Partido dos Trabalhadores (Workers’ Party), while Uruguay’s first round set the stage for what

Challenges for journalists are less life threatening than in other parts of Latin America and the World, but they are real enough (and some are self-inflicted). 

After 1996, Guatemala moved beyond armed conflict to internal, social conflict.  Over the last decade “increasing indicators” of crime demonstrate that “the situation has become uncontrollable” that it’s “undermining economic growth.” 

The Chavista dilemma in Venezuela today, according to leftist critics, is choosing between “delusions” and “dogmas” or “pragmatism.”  

Economist Jeremy Rifkin spoke with Argentine reporters about the Internet of things, the collaborative commons, the eclipse of capitalism, and Pope Francis.