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The Mexican Government has downgraded its forecast for 2013 economic growth from 3.1 percent to 1.8 percent. . . Read More »

The Costa Rican Legislative Assembly has authorized the docking of the USS Rentz, a US Navy ship, in the Central-American...

A Mexican chemical engineer, Sergio Jesus Rico Velasco, has developed and patented "Solid Rain," a powder that absorbs water and...

A top German electronics firm announced this week the opening of a manufacturing and support services facility in Costa Rica...

Argentina's tourism gap, for the second straight year, is eating away at the country's foreign currency reserves, which declined US$6.3...

The Paraguayan People's Army (Ejército del Pueblo Paraguayo) has kidnapped and killed five security guards at a cattle ranch in...

US rice farmers are making large profits from exports to Venezuela. At least US$86 million on rice was exported to...

Horacio Manuel Cartes Jara, a relative newcomer to politics back, was sworn in as Paraguay's president on Thursday. . . Read More »

Currently on the Venezuelan black market, one US dollar costs 37 Venezuelan bolivars, more than 75 percent of its April...

Although Nicaragua has plans to build an interoceanic canal and Guatemala is planning a road that connects its main commercial...

Cuba's official newspaper, Granma, has published an article this week celebrating Fidel Castro's 87th birthday where the former leader said...

Both chambers of Brazil's legislature have endorsed a reform that allocates drilling royalties from newly discovered oilfields to education and...