By Tom Jagger - Latin America unites a number of densely populated countries with a total population of over 600 million. However, these countries face a lot of challenges that inevitably…
By Shirley Alaba - While it doesn’t guarantee the best living standards among all the countries on Earth, Argentina is one of the best, if not the best, place to live…
Migration is a deeply entrenched concept within Latin America. Whether it is people crossing a border to establish themselves in a foreign land or a State receiving an influx of…
By Maureen Gueunet; cross-posted from Open City Documentaries - This year’s Open City Documentary Festival will present the UK premiere of Paz Encina’s new feature film, the documentary Memory Exercises. The…
Nearly 30-years before the Twin Towers fell in New York, a presidential palace fell in Chile. Little known to Western audiences, that September 11, 1973 began one of the most socially destructive and yet…
Obama promises conciliatory approach towards Argentina’s ‘Dirty War’ in forthcoming visit President Barack Obama’s planned two-day visit to Argentina next week, which will follow his historic trip to Cuba, has…
Future president Mauricio Macri calls for suspension of Venezuela from Mercosur; Call signals fresh direction in Argentine foreign policy Just a few hours after being confirmed as Argentina’s new president,…
Analysts expect tonight’s Argentine presidential electoral debate’s ratings to equal an Argentina-Brazil World Cup game. The stars: opposition candidate Mauricio Macri of the right-wing Cambiemos party and Daniel Scioli…
World leaders gathered in New York this week to attend the 70th session of the United Nations General Assembly. Heads of State flocked to the U.N. headquarters from all corners…
US 2nd District Court rules in favour of Argentina in ongoing ‘Vulture Fund’ case; Dates back to Argentina’s $100 billion debt default; 7 percent of country’s creditors stopping repayments to 93 percent;…
China stock fall spells more worry for Latin America; Latin-Chinese trade shrinking; Latin American economies heavily dependent on China On Monday global stock markets recorded some of the worst losses…
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Argentina started the countdown to October’s first round of Presidential elections last Sunday with open primaries and party candidates competing on the same ballot. With the most popular allowed to…
Pew Research Centre study reports Latin American middle class grew by 50 percent between 2001 and 2011; 63 million people left poverty; Argentina’s middle class records strongest growth of 114…
48th Mercosur summit closes with Bolivia becoming full member; Mercosur world’s fourth largest trade bloc, Mercosur created because of historical rivalry between Argentina and Brazil; Joined with CAN to…
IMF significantly lowers growth forecast; World Bank predicts 2015 to be worst year since financial crisis; Overall Latin American economy shrinks for fifth consecutive year; Economic problems caused by lower…
Greece receives messages of support from Latin American leaders; Support from Argentina, Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador, Venezuela; Latin American long history of debt crises; Offer example to Greece On Sunday, Greeks…
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…
Argentines protest en masse against gender violence; Marches organized in more than 70 cities; Femicide rates high across all of Latin America With the presidential elections fast approaching, few issues…
Founded in 1991, Mercosur is one of South America’s largest economic blocks. Comprising of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and most recently Venezuela as member states, it represents a variety of the…
Relatos salvajes (Wild Tales) is Damián Szifrón’s first feature film as both writer and director. Released in August 2014, it has rightly been given a nod for ‘Best Film in…
Julio Cortázar was born in Brussels in 1914 to Argentine parents. His family moved to Buenos Aires when he was four years old. Cortázar remained in the Argentina until 1951,…
Flooding Across Buenos Aires Province; President Fernández de Kirchner Hospitalised Serious flooding across the province of Buenos Aires has taken the lives of three people while the number of evacuees has…
The BBC’s flagship magazine programme Top Gear was embroiled in further scandal over the weekend following a number plate used for filming in Argentine Patagonia. The programme-makers have denied trying…
The Argentine writer Juan Manuel Puig Delledonne (commonly known as Manuel Puig) was born in General Villegas, Argentina, on 28 December 1932. He emigrated to Buenos Aires for secondary…
China invests in Argentina ahead of default deadline; Mexico benefits from rising wages in China; Japan’s Abe follows China’s Xi to Latin America