Latin America

Four hundred and forty-two people were previously evacuated from within a 10-kilometer radius of the dam in February.

The Intelatin podcast for March.

Latino Rebels Radio: March 24, 2019

FROM LATINO USA: Women are now traveling to the Colombia-Venezuela border to sell their hair to Colombian salons.

Temer became president after playing a key role in the impeachment of former President Dilma Rousseff over budget mismanagement.

An explanation of the tug of war between China and Taiwan, and how it all plays out in Latin America.

The blockade of the continent’s most important highway has cost millions of dollars and left one officer dead and 16 people injured in the wake of a violent crackdown.

In visiting the White House, Bolsonaro hoped to strengthen trade, investments and military collaboration with the United States.

The recent change will require Cubans to visit a third country —Mexico or Panama— before traveling to the United States.

Since the first anti-government student protests erupted in April 2018, more than 300 people have died while mobilizing.

The latest from the Latin America News Dispatch podcast.

The day we arrive in Ciudad Hidalgo, Chiapas, the southern Mexican state that borders Guatemala, all is quiet.

As Congress and the White House continue to clash over the funding of the border wall, Latino USA heads down to the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas to visit the communities affected by the government’s decisions about the border and immigration.

An account of what I was able to report.

The resolution now heads to the president’s desk, where he is expected to use his first veto.

Ruth, Wendy, Magda, Chileno and Magaly are five Salvadoran women who started their own theatre company and aspired for a better life in a male-dominated culture.

Truth.

Although I am glad to see attention finally given to the current plight of Central American refugees and migrants, I am appalled by the ways we continue to overlook decades of U.S. policy intervention in Central America and fail to connect how it has fueled migration since the 1980s.

The last major school shooting in Brazil occurred in 2011.

“Sexual violence is also a weapon, not only as the military’s sense of right to conquer but as a form of subjugation,” said Gustavo Gorriti, an award-winning Peruvian journalist.

Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego’s epic film tells the 1970s history of Colombia’s marijuana drug trade as it has never been told before: from an Indigenous Wayuu perspective.