South America

EspañolAt times, societies have used demonstrations and street protests to reject the excesses of government power, to fight for and...

EspañolSince the 12th Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance (ALBA) was held last July in Ecuador, Nicolás Maduro has been pushing to integrate Mercosur, Petrocaribe,...

EspañolThere is an old saying that opposites attract. Bruce Yandle refashioned this idea into an economic theory that explains why...

EspañolThe war on drugs has been around for several decades now. It began in 1954, when US President Dwight D....

EspañolThe results of Chile's elections have not overturned Wall Street's perception of the country’s economy. That is according to Mauricio Rodríguez...

EspañolMunicipal elections took place in Venezuela on December 8, and two key contextual factors characterized the national environment of the...

EspañolUS billionaire Douglas Tompkins, co-founder of The North Face, has donated 94,000 acres (38,040 hectares) to help create the newly...

EspañolOn December 6, President Nicolás Maduro signed the extension of the firing freeze, as a way “to secure” employment stability...

EspañolOn Sunday, Michelle Bachelet, candidate for the New Majority alliance, won the presidential run-off. After tallying 99.97 percent of the...

EspañolLast Wednesday the United Nations Economic Commission on Latin America (ECLAC) released their closely followed "Preliminary Overview of the Economies...

EspañolThis Sunday, Chileans will head to the polls for the final round of voting in this year's presidential elections. Constituents...

EspañolLast Friday, December 6, nongovernmental organizations such as Oxfam and Planeta Paz presented their latest evaluation on the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between...