The Centers for Disease Control and Disease Prevention (CDC) have issued a warning to travelers - particularly pregnant women - to avoid 14 countries and territories in the Caribbean and…
Latin America’s largest country spent twelve hours without one of its largest phone and texting services…WhatsApp. The mobile operators in Brazil have had to restore WhatsApp Thursday in compliance with…
The darkened hands of Armando Henríquez give the onlooker a clue as to his profession. Behind the high walls that enclose his family home he works as a cohetero, a manufacturer…
US Congress withholds conditioned Mérida Initiative aid from Mexico; Widespread concern over lack of accountability for human rights violations The United States has decided to cut Mexico’s drug war aid…
In this testimony, José Pérez León, a Mexican man from the state of Oaxaca, recounts his experiences of crossing the United States border in the early 2000s. Translation by William…
Tall palms cast shadows over the broad central square of Oaxaca, the capital city of the Mexican state of the same name. Their shade is welcomed both by those of…
During his recent visit, the pope expressed his hope that the United States lifts trade sanctions against the island country as soon as possible. He surprised people, however when he did…
Abel Ortiz steps out from his palenque - the name given locally to small-scale workshops in which the alcoholic spirit mezcal is produced - shadowed by smoke from the fires that…
The events of September 11, 2001 stimulated foreign policy changes that affected the entire planet. The United States’ post-World War II global influence has not only held strong into the…
Earlier last week on Friday 14, the United States flag was hoisted over the communist-run island. The symbolic event of re-opening the US Embassy in Havana occurs in a context…
Chihuahua governor in helicopter crash; International intellectuals push Peña Nieto for protection of journalists Chihuahua governor in helicopter crash On 14th August a helicopter carrying César Duarte, governor of the State…
Folllowing years of much publicised mounting debt, rising inflation and strict austerity measures, Puerto Rico finally defaulted on a debt payment last week for the first time in its history….
Chocolate and avocado start in the same mouth. Coyote’s there too, and tomato, and a salamander from Mexico City. Leaning on a tonsil is a man with a spear. Mescaline…
U.S. Department of State releases ‘Country Reports on Human Rights Practices in 2014’; Cuba and Venezuela included in ‘blacklisted’ countries; Criticism expressed at publication of ‘unilateral report’ Every year, the…
Oxfam release ‘Extreme Inequality in Mexico’ report; Mexico is home to the world’s second richest man and 53.3 million living in poverty; Mexico in top 11 richest countries by GDP; Four…
Aside from being remembered as the “world’s humblest president”, Uruguay’s former head of state Jose “Pepe” Mujica is also an ex-guerilla. Having fought for what he and his Tupamaro comrades…
Spanish speakers all over the world are mourning the death of one of the most iconic screen figures of the twentieth century. Mexican Roberto Gómez Bolaños, known by his stage-name…
The disappearance of forty-three students in Mexico has brought attention to an ugly aspect of the country which President Enrique Peña Nieto has tried to hide beneath his program of…
The American continent is a hard one to divide up. What constitutes Latin America? Everything south of Rio Grande/Río Bravo - the US-Mexican border? But then what about the unique…
An introduction & guide to Mexico’s 3rd largest city Almost 3 months into my year abroad in Monterrey, and I still find it difficult to answer when people ask ‘why…
