A Brazilian tourism minister expects “World Cup effect” will help Rio surpass the estimates of visitors for the 2016 Olympics. 

Any trip or tour package to Peru should come with a “Three for the Price of One” tag. 

On Aug.15, the Panama Canal will celebrate 100 years since it opened and became an epicenter of world trade. 

The July 30, 2014 deadline for Argentina and its hold-out “vulture” creditors to come to an agreement and comply with the order of U.S. Federal Judge Thomas Griesa came and went.  In the lead up to the deadline Argentina remained defiant.  Argentine Cabinet Chief Jorge Capitanich stayed on message and insisted that the vulture funds

Poets from Bolivia, Brazil, Cuba, Bolivia, Uruguay, Spain, Venezuela, Ecuador, the United States and Luxembourg joined the Chilean poet Oscar Hahn, author of “El arte de morir” (“The Art of Dying”), in attending the Sixth Festival of Latin American Poetry in Buenos Aires which began on Tuesday, July 22. 

“Argentina is intact, like a Ferrari parked at the back because the owner doesn’t know how to handle it,” says the writer and former ambassador Abel Posse. 

After nine days of events, the 24th International Poetry Festival of Medellín came to a conclusion. 

Ivica Simic, the Croatian actor, theater director, promoter and former general secretary of the International Association of Theater for Children and Youth (ASSITEJ) arrived in Cuba on Monday, August 4 for a brief visit. 

Archaeologists in northern Peru found a temple that was used by fishermen who set out to sea to hunt sharks over 3,000 years ago, according to the daily El Comercio. 

A long heat wave produced by El Niño has caused damage to crops and water rationing in Central America and northern South America.  The Honduran government is preparing to authorize massive grain imports, and water shortages have caused a crisis in many parts of Colombia.