Bachelet’s new government is planning bills that push education reform, tax changes, women’s electoral quotas, improved reproductive rights and increased equality in Chilean society. 

What is left for Kirchnerismo?  The fight over its future and legacy are in full swing. 

Political operatives agree that if the Mexican left is divided in 2015, its opposition will be weak.  Meanwhile, Subcomandante Marcos of the EZLN can still grab headlines. 

Presidential politics and fútbol have become fused in Brazil. 

When you look at the beautiful pictures of the Dominican Republic, homeless life on the beach can look pretty good to people from colder climes. 

The Dominican Republic’s 2013 visitor numbers grew by 3.6% over the previous year, outpacing the entire Caribbean region, which recorded growth in tourism of only 1%.  Tourism minister Francisco Javier García described it as “an extraordinary year.” 

Michael Allen went to meet his wife for a vacation on Costa Rica’s southern Pacific coast and found that having arrived two weeks earlier she “had bought some land near the town of Ojochal” in the jungle.  He wondered if she had gone crazy. 

Chile will propose to open the Pacific Alliance to other countries in the region. 

The Universidade São Paulo (USP) of Brazil had been knocked off top spot after three years. 

The Drug Enforcement Unit of Peru and the Federal Police in Brazil have been deployed to the border area with Colombia as part of an operation aimed at stopping the flow of drugs to Brazilian cities, many of which will be World Cup venues.