Economic crisis brings history changing implications. Each country handles insecurity, political tensions, and corruption distinctly. Survival is of mutual interest. When it comes to survivalist crisis management, Panama is a…
The shock result of Colombia’s plebiscite on Sunday has understandably overshadowed other events in Latin America this week. However, the context of Colombia’s vote provides an opportunity to examine another…
How do telenovelas - idols of entertainment and popular culture - exist in the name of agendas they attempt to escape? As the popularity of Latin American telenovelas expand into…
U.S Foreign Policy has been disastrous for many in Latin America. In living memory, the U.S has both openly and covertly supported regimes and groups that have committed humanitarian atrocities…
Guest article by Allison Lim* Opinions on the ground vary as Colombian citizens get ready to vote YES or NO on the peace agreement between the government and…
What can the Dominican Republic’s strict immigration modus operandi toward Haiti teach us about a Trump United States? US presidential candidate Donald Trump has launched a new immigration proposal - that the…
Thousands of protesters used the Mexican Independence Day (September 16th) celebrations in the capital as an opportunity to show their deep felt resentment towards President, Enrique Peña Nieto and his…
Government officials announced this month that more Cuban state industries will start paying income tax. In an effort to ease the transition into a reformed welfare system, the change will…
What does the Venezuelan crisis and Mexican Singer Juan Gabriel’s death have in common? Or one could approach the same big-picture question another way: Many cultured book worms enjoy when the same…
Venezuela’s assuming of the Mercosur pro-tempore presidency has not only tested the regional economic bloc’s crisis-era resilience, but furthermore right and left-wing governmental relations - public and private. The re-questioning…
The permanent ceasefire between the Colombian government and the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) appears to be holding. The ceasefire, which took effect on the first minute of Monday…
The United Nations General Assembly Resolution 65/209 declares August 30th the International Day of the Disappeared. Yet for the past century, Latin America has been no foreigner to forced disappearances…
UPDATE: Since the article’s original publication, President Dilma has has been officially removed from office by the affirmative vote of 61 senators to 20. However, she was not barred from…
Outspoken Colombian Ex-President Alvaro Uribe’s call for civil resistance against the Santos government-FARC peace process in Havana during its final stages must be interpreted through various contextual circumstances, principally via economic, political but perhaps…
After weeks of unrest across Chile over the protracted issue of the role of the Association of Administrative Pension Funds of Chile (AFP), President Bachelet has responded with new proposals…
The Power Watch Profiles by Pulsamerica is an updating list of up-and-coming Lat Am government authorities to watch for local, international & cross-industry changes. It profiles those who have “made it” and are…
The State of Rio de Janeiro is hosting more than just the Olympics. It also hosts a tangible portion of Brazil’s unemployed. In fact, disproportionate benefits for multinationals are leaving Brazil’s…
Former President and Vice President will undergo a trial for a third case of corruption allegedly involving more than U$S82 million. Specifically, Judge Miguel Angel Galvez has accused the pair…
Last week’s inauguration of Pedro Pablo Kuczynski as Peru’s new president put a business-friendly technocrat back in the Casa de Pizarro, Peru’s presidential palace, and the new administration is certain…
Current trends of globalization - particularly in developing regions such as Lat Am - are provoking renown economists as Joseph Stiglitz to question whether our so-called “knowledge/information based economy” is…