The criminal record of John Jairo Velásquez Vásquez, alias “Popeye,”looks at first sight to be “absurd” and wildly exaggerated, crediting him with the direct or indirect involvement in the death of over 3,000 people. 

A string of fishing towns along the Pacific coast is witnessing a growing tide of foreign and domestic tourists searching for ideal waves for surfing. 

In October the Agencia de Turismo Cutural Paradiso will offer a package tour of Cuba called Por los Caminos del Che. 

This beautiful Hacienda in Chincha has a painful history. 

Chicken and pork products are in big demand in Bolivia, while the latest nutrition survey showed that one in five children are over weight or obese in Costa Rica. 

Because the Catholic Church will not support gay unions and marriage, the Deputy Minister of Decolonization, Felix Cárdenas, said the clergy must break with its “machista ways.” 

In 2010 the Yaqui tribe, which is based in southern Sonora, began yet another struggle to defend its rights.  That year, the government of Sonora announced the construction of Acueducto Independencia.  The Yaquis immediately objected because the project was approved without proper consultation with the people and, above all, because it will drain one million

Critics of the democratically elected government of Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner have compared her strategies for dealing with the vulture funds to those of the military government that invaded the Falkland Islands, but the CFK administration fires back that the holdouts are “mobsters;” some observers think the dispute should end up in the Hague, and

The Economic Climate Index fell to its lowest point since July 2009, when the region suffered the effects of the international economic crisis.  

At the Council of the Americas meeting held in Guatemala investment opportunities in that country were presented. In the forum presenters stressed the importance of the integration of Central America to facilitate trade, investment needs in infrastructure, connectivity and human capital.