The hydroelectric project at Tumarín is still up in the air. 

 “Once described by Aldous Huxley as the Lake Como of Guatemala, Lake Atitlán is a justified staple on the Central American tourist trail.

Ask the first foreigner you meet in the streets of Brazil and probably his or her main complaint will be about the bureaucratic odyssey and logistical obstacles involved in acquiring a cell phone.  And then you can throw poor customer service into the mix.

Is going nude at Machu Picchu a new trend?

According to statistics of the World Tourism Organization, the travel market of Germans abroad is the third largest in the world, after only the Chinese and slightly below the level of the U.S., at around 83 billion dollars a year.

The arrival of more tourists to Panama has generated foreign exchange, but has also caused the demand for seafood by the hotels and restaurants to increase, which in turn has affected the prices being offered in the local market. 

Commemorations of President Hugo Chávez’s death on March 5, 2013 took place in Venezuela in early March, despite protests against his successor Nicolás Maduro that have shaken the country and called into question the legacy of “El Comandante.”  Public criticism of Maduro’s handling of the crisis remained muted in the region, despite his uneven attempts

Belinda Torres-Leclercq noted in The Santiago Times that the indigenous peoples of Chile united on International Mother Language Day to prevent further extinction of Chile’s oldest languages. 

The Buenos Aires Herald reported that during Carnival celebrations in Brazil there were traffic accidents resulting in 155 deaths and 1,823 injured.

In La República of Lima Óscar Flores wrote that La Parada market is no more “after 14 days of stress.”