The firm founded by Cristina Pineda and Ricardo Covalín to compete with the world’s top luxury brands wants to enter the Asian market; Mexico is among countries with the cheapest gasoline. 

Restricted access to commercial loans and mistrust between governments and private investors are among the main hurdles to developing infrastructure projects in Latin America. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin invited Argentina to attend the BRICS’ summit with the leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, on July 15 in Fortaleza, Brazil. 

“Everyone has an ideology. The belief that ideology is only a matter for those interested in politics is naïve.” 

There is a habit in Mexican public conversations, a kind of mental shortcut by intellectuals, pundits, and journalists, to reduce any problem to a “formula” that, implicitly or explicitly, always ends up placing any blame on the left. 

The director of the National Human Rights Institute (NHRI), Lorena Fries, presented the 2013 Annual Report on Human Rights detailing the progress and shortcomings in the use of force against the public and pointed to the main inadequacies of police in Chile. 

Almost 30 years ago, national attention was focused as nine heads of the last military dictatorship were put on the stand and judged for aberrant crimes.  Supreme Court Justice Ricardo Lorenzetti affirmed that the trials against the criminals of the dictatorship were not going to end when President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner steps down in

The Colombian government and the ELN guerrilla group announced the beginning of formal peace talks, while Colombia’s ombudsman praised the FARC’s acknowledgment of victims in peace talks. 

According to Salvadoran Attorney General Luis Martínez, prosecutors are investigating the Minister of National Defense, David Munguia Payes and other senior officials of the army for the smuggling of weapons and other arbitrary acts.  

Venezuelans are using tear gas canisters fired by the thousands on the streets of Caracas to create sculptures in a competition seeking an artistic outlet in this year’s anti-government unrest in Venezuela.