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 ...

I called it a coup; I offered qualified support for the OAS resolution imposing the democratic charter kicking out Honduras; I wrote both how elections wouldn't return democracy and the case against rejecting elections. I stand by nearly everything in...

For background on this weekend's election, see Jim Schultz (one, two, three), Miguel Centellas, Bloomberg and probably plenty more links I'm leaving out. How big does Evo win? All of the polls suggest President Morales will win reelection in the...

Before the Merida Initiative had a name, this blog referred to the potential aid program as "Not Plan Mexico." It was a joke/criticism that while the Bush administration hadn't given the program a name, they insisted that it should not be called "Plan...

Gallup polls conducted between July and September 2009 suggest President Obama has greatly improved the image of the US in Latin America. Approval of "US leadership in the hemisphere" increased by double digits in all but five countries. A median of...

The Ibero-American Summit was held this Monday and Tuesday in Lisbon. The group includes Latin America, Spain and Portugal, but not the US or Canada. The focus of the Summit was supposed to be on "Innovation and Knowledge," but you wouldn't have known...