Costa Rica has blockaded avocado imports from Mexico as they consider the continued risks pertaining the disease known as ‘mancha del sol’.

Large earthwakes are more likely to occur during the two lunar phases when tidal stresses on Earth are the highest, Japanese study reveals. 

Young Latin Americans are political, but are not becoming politicians. The discredit of politics and the alienation of the young are common to democracies around the world.

Costa Rican officials announced plans this week to relocate migrants from Haiti, Asia and Africa who have been camped out near the country’s border with Nicaragua hoping to get across and continue north to the United States.

The milestone was confirmed after no cases of the highly contagious disease originating in the Americas were recorded in at least three years, the PAHO said.

From lack of infrastructure to under-equipped low-cost carriers, airlines in LatAm are not profiting from a growing number of passengers worldwide and cheap fuel.

The number of female heads of state and government is just 16. 

In just one day the Colombian Fonseca wrote, recorded and sent a verse in Spanish for a new version of peace anthem "The Time Has Come Now" by Ringo Starr, upon request of the former Beatle.

Nearly one-third of Argentina’s population lives in poverty, the government said in the first official poverty data published in three years, underscoring the difficulty of reaching President Macri’s stated “zero poverty” goal.

President Nicolas Maduro created the committees in March to distribute and sell a “basic family food basket” directly to the public at low prices, mostly in low-income districts, but many people contend they have not yet received any food.

The surprising success of a landlocked country. Its GDP grew by 6.2% year-on-year in the second quarter of 2016. It will expand by around 3% this year and next, forecasts the IMF.

Through REDD+ programs Peru has earned $33.5 million dollars in the last 2 years and aims to further reduce deforestation. 

In Mexico, the official death toll from the past decade’s drug trade stands at over 185,000, with many of the dead innocent bystanders.

Argentina’s largest public sector unions staged a national strike Tuesday to demand pay increases amid rising inflation and higher utility rates that have eaten into workers’ purchasing power.

Colombia's second-largest rebel group has said it is ready to begin formal peace talks with the government, days after a historic peace deal was signed with the country's largest rebel group.

The Colombian congress presented an initiative to raise taxes on imported liquor, the move has its detractors and its supporters.

Cuba’s Havana Club rum is set to enter the U.S. market “even if it were to open tomorrow,” according to executives of the firm that exports 75 percent of its production.

Panama’s foreign ministry on Tuesday formally asked the U.S. government to extradite former Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli in connection with illegal wiretaps

President Barack Obama on Tuesday nominated career diplomat Jeffrey DeLaurentis to be the first U.S. ambassador to Cuba, but Senate Republicans are likely to block his nomination.

Venezuela’s economic and political crises have left it more isolated than it has been in years — and not just from the United States.

The ICC will begin treating crimes against environment as crimes against humanity. 

The indigenous community celebrated the end of the peace deal process. What is their position?

Each Latin American country has made a statement on their representatives to the 2017 Oscars.

Last night the candidates had their first presidential debate in New York. 

Members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) hold an informal meeting in Algeria from Sept 26 to 28.

The sale to a consortium led by Brookfield is part of the company’s plans to focus on the exploration of petroleum and natural gas.

Peru’s Popular Force party, led by Keiko Fujimori, has rejected a bill to strengthen prosecutors investigating money laundering, calling into question the party’s commitment to fighting corruption.

In a Caribbean resort city, far from the jungles where guerrilla battles once raged, the Colombian government and the country’s largest rebel group signed a peace agreement on Monday evening.

The seventh art goes environmental with the first cinema fed by solar energy in Latin America.

Unfortunately life seems to be taught for indigenous women in Latin America. What is happening? 

An article published in Nature explains why is it possible climate change caused the peopling of the world. 

Deal ending 52 years of fighting that has killed a quarter of a million people comes after four years of negotiations

Brazilian president Michel Temer earlier this week revealed another twist to the recent political events in the country which led to the impeachment and removal of Dilma Rousseff.

The Farc’s peace deal in Colombia marks the effective end of a wave of rebel movements inspired by the Cuban revolution, with just a few small groups left

He has walked a long way since his first movie until today but he feels himself Latin American  like the first day. 

Paraguay students marched to ask for help. The educational system is going down because of lack of budget.

The decision by key South American countries to send an ultimatum to Venezuela’s authoritarian regime demanding that it respect democratic rules went almost unnoticed in the U.S. media

One lesson from Latin America is that governments can ease inequality through social programmes. Latin America wants to rejoin the world. Will the world reciprocate?

Argentina’s recession deepened in the second quarter as President Macri’s efforts to implement free-market reform exacerbated an already flagging economy. GDP fell 3.4% from the same period a year earlier

On a Q6A the Democratic nominee answered questions about U.S.-Mexican relations, the Latino vote and more.