Over the weekend the bodies of 10 members of an "amateur soccer team" kidnapped two weeks ago in Colombia were found in Venezuela. Only one person survived the massacre. The dead are eight Colombians, one Venezuelan and one Peruvian according to local...

Earlier this month on Twitter I posted: I'm wondering if Brazil drug gangs will react to the Olympic announcement. Will they change tactics? Over the weekend, two weeks after the Olympic announcement, Rio's drug gangs shot down a police helic...

A four hour meeting yesterday in Quito between the government and Conaie led to a six point agreement. The meeting did not resolve all of the concerns of the two sides, but importantly, it established a "permanent dialogue" between indigeno...

There were several common themes in the speeches given by Latin American countries to the UN General Assembly yesterday. Among them were global financial regulation and reform in the wake of the crisis, reform of multilateral institutions like the UN...

The headline in Argentina's Clarin newspaper this morning is "Operativo oficial de intimidacion a Clarin." Over 150 tax inspectors from AFIP searched the Grupo Clarin building and removed files. While the government claimed it was a ...