Fernando Raymondi Uribe was murdered by what seemed very much like a hit squad, and Peru’s journalistic community does not buy the government’s contention that it was a robbery gone bad.  A press organization called for further investigation while others marched.

Economists of a neoliberal bent have come to occupy a “disproportionate space” in public discourse on questions of social and economic policy. 

According to a study by the World Justice Project, Colombia ranks seventy-nine of ninety-nine countries in the effectiveness of its criminal justice system. Colombia’s Nasa People have their own remedy.

There are 12 million political refugees in the world, but those displaced by the consequences of climate change are around 25 million, and could number more than 200 million by 2050, according to a recent report. 

It turns out that the “messianic idea of the Grand Canal of Nicaragua” may have a spiritual origin. 

According to Pope Francis, the world’s poor are not waiting around; they want to be active participants in their own destiny, and Bolivia’s president agrees.  

A cohort of Cuban jurists participated in a hearing, but representatives of the Ecuadorian government were absent. 

The work on Argentina’s hydroelectric dam named for President Néstor Kirchner will begin in November under a cloud of contention.  Several groups fear its affects on the Perito Moreno glacier.   In Chile a similarly controversial mega-dam project was cancelled. 

Chile’s Atacama Desert may be the country’s solar ‘promised land,’ but when it comes to wind energy, central-northern Coquimbo region (IV) reigns supreme. 

The love that the people of Quebradas have for their pueblo is evident in their tidy gardens, trash-free roads, immaculate schools, and above all, their sparkling sage-green Quebradas River.  This respect for the river and its environment can be traced, in large part, to the creation of the non-profit AQUA (Asociacion Quebradeña de Artesanos) in