The close race that ended with the reelection of President Dilma Rousseff, many observers on both the left and the right believe, points to continuing political struggles over many basic issues. 

Championing Chile’s regions and the military, a new party headed by General Pinochet’s grandson wants to restore “the good parts of the military regime.” 

Overflowing power becomes abusive and abusive power that is challenged often becomes violent.   These are observations that still matter in Paraguay. 

Tourism leaders hope the results of an industry conference will become guidelines for improving the sector’s competitiveness. 

Colombia is launching a tourism campaign in São Paulo for 2015 focused on nature, on beaches and on adventure. 

Since the September 26, 2014 attack on students from the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers’ College of Ayotzinapa in Guerrero, in which 6 were killed, 25 were wounded, and another 43 were disappeared in Iguala, the state capital (120 miles south of Mexico City), Mexico has seen massive protests and Mexicans in general have participated

Returning from a trip to Poland, Cuban Baptist pastor Mario Félix Lleonart was grilled at José Martí Airport in Havana for four hours, demonstrating that travel abroad is still not considered routine or particularly encouraged in Cuba, especially if it concerns human rights. 

Around 28.5 million Latin American and Caribbean natives are living outside their countries of origin says a report by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). 

In China President Michelle Bachelet reassured investors that Chile is “stable.”

U.K. Minister for Latin America, Hugo Swire, spoke of the growing presence of the United Kingdom in Latin America and more specifically on the expanding links with Paraguay.