Farmers in Bolivia set up roadblocks to protest a new electoral map, while Guatemalans blocking the entrance to a mining project faced police brutality as their protest settlement was removed. 

While debating calls by human rights organizations for Paraguay to affirm its intolerance of discrimination based on sexual orientation, Senators made remarks that generated protests. 

Artisanal professions and traditional practices continue in the Ecuadorian Andes, and Santo Domingo is a city “that has eyes everywhere.” 

In the months before the first round of Colombia’s presidential elections, incumbent Juan Manuel Santos of the Partido de “la U,” seemed headed for an easy victory, since his first term had benefited from steady economic growth, and he personally had gained popularity for initiating serious peace negotiations with the FARC guerrillas that have the

“La unión de América Latina” from 1924, has a crack that will be repaired. 

Uruguayan author Eduardo Galeano said in an interview that he considers his 1971 book The Open Veins of Latin America, by far his best-known work, to be so bad he will no longer read from it during public appearances.  MercoPress of Montevideo wrote that Galeano made the public admission at the Brasilia book show.  “I

Di Couto recently spoke about works in her upcoming first solo exhibition, the choice of different techniques used to create them, and about life as a female street artist in Rio.  In The Rio Times of Rio de Janeiro Chesney Hearst wrote that Rio artist Diana “Di” Couto’s first solo exhibition entitled, “Outro Olhar” (“Another

Peru’s University of Engineering and Technology, known for building the world’s first potable water-producing billboard, has come up with another ingenious invention: a billboard to reduce air pollution. 

A report by the World Health Organization (WHO) on air quality in 1,600 cities in the world found that Cochabamba is one of the most polluted regions, (although Lima is worse.) 

Environmental authorities are seeking support from the community to combat a species.