Archaeologist Walter Alva has praised Peru’s initiative in building new museums across the country.   

The archaeological site of Teotihuacán receives 5 ​​million visitors on average per year, which places it among the most visited in the world. 

The Dominican Republic recorded the arrival of 445,018 non-resident visitors in April, via air travel, representing a “historical” growth compared to the same period last year. 

Across the region the international day in celebration of labor was contested territory.  In several countries with center-left governments May Day festivities were used to reaffirm the government’s role in the economy, while opposition members used the day to complain about government overreach.  In countries with “neoliberal” governments opposition movements protested the lack of government

The Argentine Industrial Union, UIA, the country’s most powerful manufacturers’ lobby, released the results of a poll covering 300 corporations that decried the low level of economic activity expected this year, and predicate little in the way of jobs creation and more layoffs. 

The bad news is that the Colombian exports to the United States have fallen; the good news is that the informal economy is shrinking. 

Combined coffee exports from nine countries in Latin America (not including Brazil) fell 2.85% in the first half of harvest that began in October. 

In Guatemala there are two farming systems: a “modern” and “technological” version located on the southern coast, and another, “based on the colonial model of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries” remains “rooted in the departments of Alta and Baja Verapaz.” 

The competition is beginning to heat up as Peronista políticos jockey for position in a crowded field of would-be successors to the Kirchner dynasty, while the opposition hopes to fish in the troubled waters. 

It’s finally official: Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff will be the presidential candidate for the Workers’ Party (PT) in the October elections; she has also received the support of former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.