Colombia’s Salento is one of world’s most beautiful hamlets, thanks to its colorful architecture. 

A Peruvian indigenous organization denounced the proliferation of package tours that include visits to isolated tribes in the Amazon reserve region of Madre de Dios in southeastern Peru.  

The Galapagos, the Amazon, and Machu Picchu make the top ten list. 

Government says environmental preservation contributes to the stability of the Amazon, and ensures that rules over land ownership are respected. 

The World Bank says that due to rising sea levels and recurring storms, the beaches in most Caribbean nations have started to disappear. 

The Environment Ministry warned the Dominican-Venezuelan mining and construction company (DOVEMCO) to comply with its commitment to environmental improvement at the Las Mercedes bauxite mine, in Cabo Rojo, Pedernales province (southwest). 

The crisis between the federal government and the state of Sonora, arising from the environmental impact of the operations of Grupo Mexico, escalated with the intervention of President Enrique Peña Nieto, who announced that he was sending a special commission to investigate. 

In the exchange of barbs between Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and her main rival Marina Silva, who is right?  Reinaldo Azevedo says “both and neither.”  Patricio Navia thinks that Silva could be “the alternative for a new Latin American left.” 

What is missing is a force able to summon citizens to the polls to punish corrupt politicians, allies of the mafia, and the beneficiaries of clientelism.

The Chilean press has pretty much overlooked one key fact regarding the homemade bomb that exploded in Santiago’s Escuela Militar metro station.