Tourism officials from member countries of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) met in Bogotá to review the regional strategic agenda. 

He watched the buildings and empty streets of São Paulo, bothered by insistent noise from a construction site on Avenida Angélica.  For a whole morning he was thinking about the number of windows that looked into the distance and the stories that lay behind each.

In 1941, Walt Disney and his studio of several artists toured Latin America for two and a half weeks in a trip paid for by the United States Government that inspired them to create classics like “Peter Pan” and “Alice in Wonderland.” 

For Alejandro Fernández Almendras it has never been easy to finance his films, but that may change after his new film. 

After The New York Times called for an end to the fifty-year embargo, Cubans jumped at the possibilities.

The Cross-Border Trucking Pilot Program has not helped to facilitate commercial traffic between Mexico and the United States. 

A new generation of “neohippies” has taken up the dream and wants to “change paradigms,” while the rules for everyday-life in the country were altered with changes to the Civil and Commercial Codes.   

Latin American advances in universal access to health care face the challenge of meeting new demands arising from longer life expectancy, says a study. 

In Paraguay formal employment increased to 47% of the market; advocates in the DR warn that it is impossible to reduce poverty if the country does not invest in sex education.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has reported the arrest of four groups that were planning to attack and carry out violent acts in the capital and other cities.  Venezuela’s coalition of opposition political parties rejected a statement by President Maduro accusing them of responsibility in the murder of a ruling-party lawmaker.