President Dilma Rousseff said she will be a candidate with or without support from all of her party’s allies. 

The governor of Miranda state, Henrique Capriles, addressed the opposition’s view of the effectiveness of talks with the embattled government of Nicolás Maduro. 

The Ashaninka indigenous leader Ruth Buendía received the Goldman Prize and Lima’s Mayor Susana Villarán launched her re-election campaign. 

The new, leftist president of El Salvador looks to bring former dissidents in from the cold. 

Leaders of the Kirchnerista wing of Peronismo are eying post 2015 scenarios. 

Those who know Honduras understand that it is a country of enviable beauty with a rich cultural and historical heritage, and well endowed with natural treasures, but that these facts are largely unknown to the wider world. 

An agreement signed in Guatemala City will establish a tourist area to promote the cultural, socio-economic, and biological resources of the wider Caribbean through sustainability, integration, cooperation, and consensus. 

Peruvians love the Caribbean, especially Cartagena on the Colombian coast. 

The recently launched “Blue Pampa” project is a ten-year “strategic initiative” that aims to research Argentina’s South Atlantic resources in five different areas to ensure conservation and management, while reinforcing Argentine claims of sovereignty. 

Severe drought in northern Colombia has left the area in a state of emergency.   The situation in the municipio of Riohacha, northern Colombia, has left a trail of destruction and has been declared a “public disaster” by its Mayor Rafael Ceballos Sierra.