The largest and smallest countries of Spanish and Portuguese speaking Latin America (in terms of population) voted in presidential elections on October 26, 2014.  In Brazil the second round confirmed the reelection of President Dilma Rousseff of the leftist PT or Partido dos Trabalhadores (Workers’ Party), while Uruguay’s first round set the stage for what

Challenges for journalists are less life threatening than in other parts of Latin America and the World, but they are real enough (and some are self-inflicted). 

After 1996, Guatemala moved beyond armed conflict to internal, social conflict.  Over the last decade “increasing indicators” of crime demonstrate that “the situation has become uncontrollable” that it’s “undermining economic growth.” 

The Chavista dilemma in Venezuela today, according to leftist critics, is choosing between “delusions” and “dogmas” or “pragmatism.”  

Economist Jeremy Rifkin spoke with Argentine reporters about the Internet of things, the collaborative commons, the eclipse of capitalism, and Pope Francis. 

“If you aspire to be a professional artist, you have to leave El Salvador.”  This is the advice that Laura Benítez, a ballet dancer from El Salvador, would give to other aspiring dancers from her home country. 

Researchers have discovered artifacts in the southern Andes that date back to the Ice Age, suggesting that ancient people lived at a very high altitude just 2,000 years after arriving to South America.

Police raided the home of a German man in Santa Ana on Oct. 22, seizing a collection of unregistered pre-Columbian art worth as much as $1 million. 

Six of Argentina’s most internationally famous advertising professionals showed a different side to their creativity by contemplating the fate of Don Draper, the main character of AMC’s Mad Men. 

There’s still a way to go, but the government has been focusing funds on its international and regional airports.