More than 56 million people have been lifted out of poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean in recent years, according to the United Nations Development, around 200 million more, 37.8% of the population, remain vulnerable. 

The Minister of Commerce, Industry and Tourism talked about her relationship with the Minister of Education in response to questions about her sexuality. 

Informality in employment fell 5.6 points in three years in Ecuador. 

Nobel Laureate in Economics Joseph Stiglitz, and investors George Soros and Kyle Bass weighed in on Argentina’s behalf in its struggle with hold out investors, and the International Capital Market Association hopes to ensure that there are no repeats of Argentina’s situation. 

Seven months after it launched its ambitious bid to have the lion’s share of Internet sales in Colombia, Cdiscount celebrates the results. 

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.