The Brazilian, Argentine, and Chilean presidents figure among the list of the 25 most powerful women in the world according to the latest release from Forbes. 

The ITUC Global Rights Index ranks 139 countries against 97 internationally recognized indicators to assess where workers’ rights are best protected, in law and in practice. 

The United Nations welcomed today a decision by Costa Rica’s public health and pension system, CCSS, to grant gay couples coverage on the same terms as heterosexual couples. 

The poet opened the Primer Encuentro Internacional de Poesía held at the XV Feria del Libro de Santa Cruz.  Other invited poets were Roberto Resendiz, Lucas Viriato, René Figueroa, and Carlos Aldazábal. 

“In the cinema of today there isn’t much space for silence.” 

After weeks of speculation regarding the nomination, anthropologist Ramón Rivas gets the nod from President Elect Salvador Sánchez Cerén. 

Drought-stricken Chile looks to reform its water industry. 

Guatemala inaugurated the largest solar power plant in Central America with the capacity to supply thousands of households in the country. 

Over the past couple of years, coffee production in Central America has been hit by a deadly wave of coffee leaf rust (“roya” in Spanish), a type of fungus that has hurt the production of this valued commodity in the region. 

Amid prosecutions of opposition politicians, street crime, and closely contested elections, Venezuela continues to endure crisis conditions, to the point that voices around the region are calling on Venezuelans to try harder to settle their differences.