In Peru there were only four official pisquera routes: Ica, Arequipa, Moquegua and Tacna.

The Public Ministry (MP) opened the Prosecutor for Crimes Against Tourists office in the Guatemalan Tourism Institute (INGUAT) building in the capital of Guatemala. 

On February 27, the UCLA Film and Television Archive announced that it had reached an agreement with Cuba’s Cinemateca to restore a number of the island country’s pre-revolutionary films.

It was like a gift for Valentine’s Day, 1955. Forty tons of “communist” books were placed at President Richard M. Nixon’s feet before being hauled off to the fire, a purge that marked the beginning of a campaign to control Guatemalan minds. This campaign might well very have been called “The Overthrow of Arbenz: Part

It’s no “coincidence” that there are simultaneous judicial offensives against Presidents Dilma Rousseff in Brazil, Michelle Bachelet in Chile, Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela and Cristina Fernández in Argentina. 

Oncologist Tabaré Vázquez Rosas becomes Uruguay’s president for the second time, demonstrating the stable nature of his country’s democratic tradition, and the desire of its citizens for more center-left policies. 

On February 23, 1980 Attorney General Zamora Rivas, a leader of the leftwing of the Christian Democratic party, was assassinated in El Salvador’s dirty war.  His death had symbolic resonance.   

While Venezuela’s economic situation seems to teeter closer to the edge, its highly antagonistic political atmosphere also continues to worsen.  As President Nicolás Maduro’s approval numbers have fallen into the low twenties, he has repeatedly blamed the nation’s troubles on international conspiracies (largely originating in the United States) linked to the domestic political opposition.  He

The effort to strengthen public education, the National Teaching Plan, along with a higher education reform initiative, will hit the Chilean national congress in March. 

An initiative by the city of São Paulo offers scholarships for transwomen to study, helping them move away from prostitution and street violence.