Alberto Nisman was the prosecutor whom former President Néstor Kirchner’s administration tasked with investigating the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA).  The attack, which killed 85 people, is generally believed to have been carried out by Hezbollah operatives with connections to Iranian intelligence.  Nisman recently

Recently Paulina Vega Dieppa won the Miss Universe pageant, but what’s in it for Colombia to claim the most beautiful woman in the universe? 

According to a group of investment professionals from all over the world, the growth forecasts for 2015 are not what were hoped for by the World Bank and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. 

The Mines and Energy Ministry has approved the environmental permit for a 1.5 billion dollar Chinese-owned iron ore mine in the Arequipa region. 

The prospects for justice and resolution of disputes in Mexico “are bleak.” The process is expensive, slow, inflexible, and open to manipulation. 

Although he was wrong about the inevitability of communism, Marx correctly predicted many of capitalism’s recurring ills. 

The old ways and practices of the agricultural system have historically generated a “lousy” outcome, with concentrated land ownership and low productivity. 

For a market economy to function property many actors must do their part.

Eduardo Cunha, the new Speaker of the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies, is an “entrepreneur” of policy and a master of realpolitik who reminds some in Brazil of Frank Underwood (the central character in the U.S. television series House of Cards) in his ability to debase high-minded policy. 

The Mexican private sector says security concerns are now affecting the bottom line, and they are calling on politicians to act.  And while some would give President Enrique Peña Nieto more credit, others point to the breakdown of politics since the massacre of the student teachers in Guerrero.