After thanking Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto for his “messages of congratulations” on the success of and awards given to his film “Gravity,” Alfonso Cuarón wanted to “take the opportunity” to ask some questions and express his concerns, “shared by many Mexicans,” about energy reform. 

The challenge of political reform and economic progress in Honduras is an “uphill” climb “facing the same old patterns.”  A change in attitudes is needed. 

Indications are that what is coming next for Venezuela will be worse than what we’ve seen already. 

Poverty “is suddenly the main concern” for politicians and journalists who never noticed it before. 

Nicaragua is working to improve the quality and expanse of its rural tourism network. 

The recent growth of Mexican tourism has been “extraordinary.” 

As if problems with the delayed stadiums was not enough, and just weeks until the start of the World Cup, work on crucial new airport terminals has fallen behind in most of the dozen Brazilian host cities, heightening the risk of overcrowding and confusion during the tournament. 

Mario Vargas Llosa defies simplistic political labels. The Nobel Prize-winning writer from Peru has built an impressive reputation as a freethinker. His recent comments in support of Peruvian President Ollanta Humala and his open criticisms of the Venezuelan government have made him a punching-bag for dogmatists on both sides of the aisle. 

Influential theorist Ernesto Laclau, Argentine born and London-based, and a strong ideological mentor of Kirchnerism dies at 78. 

At least 12 people were killed and 2,000 houses destroyed by a fire that devastated parts of the Chilean port city of Valparaiso, as authorities evacuated thousands and sent in aircraft to battle the blaze.