It is expected that relations between the two countries, marked by cooperation in the past, will continue to improve. 

In an interview with El Heraldo and La Tribuna, the highest U.N. official spoke of the challenges facing the region and Honduras. 

Now that emotions are settling down, it is clear to some observers that there are both threats and opportunities in the resumption of U.S.-Cuban relations, but there is no doubt that “it won’t be easy.”  Things are off to a promising start with the release of the Cuban dissidents. 

Among the goals that the Foreign Trade Ministry wants to pursue is an agreement between the Mercosur bloc and the European Union. 

Major international news agencies couldn’t help but notice the “frosty” atmosphere in the meeting between the Presidents of the United States and Mexico. 

Uruguayan president Jose Mujica defended Brazil’s leadership in Latin America, but still insisted that while Brazil seems large to its neighbors, the region is still small in global terms. 

Six years in and what impact has CAFTA had on Costa Rica? 

Dominican Republic’s Defense Ministry has “sealed” the border with Haiti, given its political instability, “with heightened patrols by highly trained troops, ready to act against any adversity.” 

There is something fascinating about the popular will. Occasionally it wearies of its rulers, in which case the people can mobilize and change an undesirable and unsustainable state of affairs. 

Since late last century, and especially since the beginning of this century, left-leaning governments have been installed in Latin America, themselves the products of the failure of neoliberalism. In the search for alternatives, there have been different approaches on the Latin American Left, some more successful than others.