Bolivia’s fabulously rich silver mine has claimed thousands of victims, yet the men keep coming.... Read more»
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South America’s science and technology lag behind its breakneck economic growth, but some in the region are working to change that.... Read more»0
Most-wanted drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is suspected to be dead after a shootout in Guatemala near the Mexican border. Guatemalan authorities said Friday they are investigating the possibility a man killed in the shootout was 58-year-old Guzman, but later backtracked, saying they hadn’t yet located a body or even confirmed there was a gunfight.... Read more»0
Missing fire extinguishers and flouting other health and safety codes, Latin American nightclubs have been the scene of deadly blazes before.... Read more»0
A hole in the ozone layer that appears seasonally over Antarctica last year reached its second-smallest size in two decades.... Read more»0
American conservatives warn of militant Islam’s spread in Latin America. But their claims are hard to prove.... Read more»0
Are genetically modified crops “Franken-foods” or the answer to global hunger and climate change? That is the dilemma dividing Latin America, where vast quantities of GM crops are grown. Ecuador’s constitution actually prohibits them and Peru recently voted for a 10-year moratorium.... Read more»0
Mayor Susana Villaran has battled rats, tax cheats and chaotic streets of Peru’s capital. Now gangsters are attempting to bring her down.... Read more»0
As droughts continue to devastate Mexico’s farmers (350,000 head of cattle have starved to death in Chihuahua), experts are asking whether these climate changes are permanent.... Read more»0
The Mexican Green Party — a key ally of the presidential front-runner — gets a lot of black-and-blues from critics claiming it’s anything but environmentalist.... Read more»0
El Salvador’s vicious gangs have called a cease-fire, enticed in part by conjugal visits for incarcerated leaders. Salvadorans are skeptical it will last.... Read more»0
As some Latin American leaders call for legalization of narcotics, Peru — a leading coca grower — remains opposed. A former anti-drug czar-turned-dissident explains why.... Read more»1
Even by Ciudad Juarez’s grim standards, a threat from a Mexican drug cartel to kill an officer a day until the city’s police chief steps down is being seen as an unusually terrifying escalation in the violence.... Read more»0
Guatemalan President Otto Pérez Molina has promised to deal with Mexico’s violent drug cartels with an “iron fist.” But will it work?... Read more»0
Record gold prices are claiming an unlikely victim: the lush, spectacularly biodiverse rainforests of the Peruvian Amazon, as new speculators enter the mining business... Read more»1
Peru’s new government under President Ollanta Humala is drawing up a broader, more sophisticated strategy that accepts that simply wiping out coca by force will not succeed.... Read more»0
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