Venezuela’s “delicate situation” has important implications for Colombia, given the two neighbors’ intimate relationship.  What happens on one side of the border can seriously affect what happens on the other. 

Bolivia’s Minister of Economy and Finance, Luis Arce Catacora, believes that Bolivia is a model for prosperity for other Latin American countries to follow.

The Peruvian Rodolfo Orellana Rengifo, leader of an alleged organization dedicated to fraud and money laundering, was expelled from Colombia and delivered to Peruvian authorities after he was apprehended in Cali. 

Though Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos contends that the FARC is weaker militarily than ever, he and the nation received a shock when the FARC captured an army general.  The incident has led to calls for a cease fire during peace negotiations, something the president has refused to allow.

Most recent cases of torture in Argentina were reported in police stations and penitentiaries located in Buenos Aires province, a report says. 

Fernando Raymondi Uribe was murdered by what seemed very much like a hit squad, and Peru’s journalistic community does not buy the government’s contention that it was a robbery gone bad.  A press organization called for further investigation while others marched.

Economists of a neoliberal bent have come to occupy a “disproportionate space” in public discourse on questions of social and economic policy. 

According to a study by the World Justice Project, Colombia ranks seventy-nine of ninety-nine countries in the effectiveness of its criminal justice system. Colombia’s Nasa People have their own remedy.

There are 12 million political refugees in the world, but those displaced by the consequences of climate change are around 25 million, and could number more than 200 million by 2050, according to a recent report. 

It turns out that the “messianic idea of the Grand Canal of Nicaragua” may have a spiritual origin.