After several years of exploration and growth, the Costa Rican robotics sector is set to leave its childhood and enter adulthood. 

Migrant children are a product of drug cartels says the U.S.; “Self-Defense” groups say guns and drugs were planted while drug gangs tortured and threatened their families; meanwhile the legislature of the state of Sinaloa restricts media activity.

The Chilean Supreme Court convicted six ex-agents of the secret police of Augusto Pinochet for the imprisonment and kidnapping of a young member of the opposition in 1974.  The Working Group Against Forced Disappearance of Guatemala pushed for a bill to help determine the whereabouts of the victims of disappearance and provide compensation for those

Margarita Murillo was shot and killed in the village of El Planón, located within the municipality of Villanueva in northern Honduras.  She had been receiving death threats. 

Seizures by Nicaraguan National Police of nearly 20,000 illegal firearms during a recent five year span have been a key factor in reducing the homicide rate in the country, authorities said. 

Archaeologists have found two ancient Mayan cities in southeastern Mexico, and the lead researcher says he believes there are “dozens” more to be found in the region. 

Nicanor Parra celebrated his 100th birthday on September 5. 

Director Sebastián del Amo’s biopic, “Cantinflas,” about Mexican actor Mario Moreno and his iconic alter ego of the same name, opened in theaters in the US on August 29.  

After the death of Brazilian presidential candidate Eduardo Campos in a plane crash on August 13, 2014, his running mate on the Partido Socialista Brasileiro (PSB) ticket, Marina Silva, took over as the official candidate.  She is a former minister of the environment and a former senator, who got almost 20 million votes in the

Chile is ready to bring Mercosur and the Pacific Alliance together so that Latin America can have a greater presence in the world state.