The news of the arrest of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman — the most wanted drug lord in the world — has been received by many as a crucial...

What happens when 8,000 people decide to go to the mall together? This is not the tagline of a B movie about Black Friday. Instead, it is...

Last Wednesday February 12, Venezuela celebrated the National Youth Day. For the whole day, official radio and TV channels transmitted...

It is impossible to analyze Cuba’s political moves without also mentioning the United States’ reaction. Since the 1959 revolution, the...

It was in 2006 when former Mexican President Felipe Calderon first ordered the National Army to combat the drug cartels operating in...

We live in troubling times. Protests, wars, coups, government corruption, crime and acts of terrorism are just some examples of the...

As one exercise in regional integration keeps disintegrating on one side of the Atlantic, another surges to the South of the Rio Grande....

Trouble is brewing in the Colombian coffee industry. Production collapsed in 2012, after blights and adverse weather killed a large...

The politics of welfare, here in the United States and abroad, are fraught with tension, and poverty reduction programs have long been a...

In 1980, the Cuban port of Mariel witnessed the departure of 100,000 state-approved émigrés fleeing towards the United States. More than...

Brazil has always been a country of contradictions. Perhaps no place is more indicative of this than Rio de Janeiro, a city where the...

Guerilla warfare has been a defining characteristic of modern Latin American history. The cult of the freedom fighter has been present...

Latin America has a tendency of looking back in history for political inspiration. Perhaps the most obvious current manifestation of this...

These days, most politicians have put the government shutdown and health care reform above immigration reform in their list of concerns....

The night before Brazil’s September 7th Independence Day celebrations, Marcelo D2, one of the founding fathers of Brazilian rap and a...

Chilean Armed Forces bomb the Presidential Palace during the 1973 coup. Wikipedia Commons. Creative Commons. The events of September 11th...

On the night of July 31st, the lower house of Uruguay’s legislature passed a bill that would legalize the production, distribution and...

#ChangeBrazil, #VemPraRua, #OGiganteAcordou. Whoever first thought to use these trending Brazilian protest labels must feel like an...

“Gentlemen do not read others’ mail.” –Henry L. Stimson. “One might expect Europeans to protest loudly — if only to appease their...

by Joaquim Salles Soccer, beaches, carnival, scantily clad women. Clichés and stereotypes inevitably arise when talking about Brazil....