During the World Cup in Brazil U.S. Vice President Joe Biden visited President Dilma Rousseff.  This was an important step towards the resumption of bilateral relations, seriously shaken last year by American espionage against Brazilian companies, citizens, and even President Rousseff herself. 

The U.S. sent Latin American youths to Cuba to push for political change; it didn’t go well. 

After six years of living in Honduras Matthew Keister thinks he knows why children and adolescents, “at least those from the La Ceiba area,” (where he lives) are leaving for the United States, either with coyotes or entirely on their own.  

Chile and Argentina are close to sealing the financing terms of the US$1 billion trans-Andean Agua Negra tunnel. 

Fugitives have made it into several parts of the country and the army has offered rewards for information on the escaped prisoners. 

More than 160 participants from 18 countries gathered at the U.S. Southern Command for the annual exercise that focuses on supporting the Panamanian government in defense of the Panama Canal. 

There are two projects for reforming the countryside: one already proposed by the government of President Enrique Peña Nieto and its partners; and one offered by campesino organizations. 

Estela de Carlotto, president of Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, was recently reunited with her abducted grandson, Ignacio Hurban/Guido Montoya Carlotto, and it has brightened the mood in Argentina while generating more interest in further investigations.  It has also given the President’s popularity a boost. 

The “Monsanto Law” is a direct attack on Guatemalan sovereignty and could be introducing “a new process of colonialization.” 

We live in a market economy that has led to the creation of a culture of wasteful consumption.  It has set out to convert the human being into a “good consumer,” especially children and youth.