President Evo Morales filed suit against Chile in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, and asked the court for justice, and insisted that the country will not be a peace until its demand for sovereign access to the Pacific Ocean is addressed. 

The near-universal hegemony of the Catholic Church in Latin America has waned over the past twenty years. 

Protests in Venezuela have aroused widespread concern in Latin America and the Caribbean, according to a recent report. 

The Latin American right faces a critical situation.  With just two governments securely in their column, and no real chance of winning a new country for their cause in elections this year, the debate has turned to how to address the new scenario of political and ideological dominance by the left.  

The ongoing political turmoil in Venezuela continued on a low boil, with more efforts to find a working agreement between the government of Nicolás Maduro and the country’s well-heeled protestors.  Yet there was still plenty of drama with the kidnapping and subsequent release of an opposition journalist. 

In the most dramatic hour of the Kirchner era, Senate majority leader Miguel Angel Pichetto looked at Vice-President Julio Cobos straight in the eyes and quoted the Bible.

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s popularity has dipped five percentage points ahead of October’s presidential elections, revealed a new poll published on Sunday.

President Michelle Bachelet aims to move decisively on 56 measures she promised to enact within the first 100 days of her government, which have been overshadowed by the massive earthquake that recently struck off the coast. 

Leftist parties now hold sway in Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Nicaragua, but what it means in the long run is still not clear. 

Though the real troubles had started in 1960, a process began on March 31, 1964 that led to the overthrow of President João Goulart by the Brazilian military (with the backing of the United States) on April 1, 1964.  The coup put an end to the government of Goulart, also known as Jango, because the