In early April Panama hosted the Ninth World Economic Forum for Latin America, and expected to host 600 leaders from government, industry, civil society, and academia from over fifty  countries, there to analyze the challenges facing the region. 

The “young writer” Juan Pablo Castro Rodas has so far produced poems, novels, and essays.  Written from Quito, they are “not necessarily” about the place, but (reminiscent of Javier Vásconez, known as “the great narrator of Quito”) Castro Rodas “recognizes that there is a dialogue” that comes from “the vision he has acquired after twelve

The “art of catching moments” appealed to the young Ismael. 

During a tribute to Octavio Paz on his one hundredth birthday, President Enrique Peña Nieto stressed the work and legacy of the only Mexican to have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature (1990). 

Chile ranks high among countries with indigenous socio-environmental conflicts, largely due to major forestry plantations in Southern Chile, in the heartland of Mapuche territory.

The hydroelectric project at Tumarín is still up in the air. 

 “Once described by Aldous Huxley as the Lake Como of Guatemala, Lake Atitlán is a justified staple on the Central American tourist trail.

Ask the first foreigner you meet in the streets of Brazil and probably his or her main complaint will be about the bureaucratic odyssey and logistical obstacles involved in acquiring a cell phone.  And then you can throw poor customer service into the mix.

Is going nude at Machu Picchu a new trend?

According to statistics of the World Tourism Organization, the travel market of Germans abroad is the third largest in the world, after only the Chinese and slightly below the level of the U.S., at around 83 billion dollars a year.