
Ungovernable governments
In Colombia, restrictions on President Gustavo Petro have come from both Congress and the high courts. In the rest of the region, similar dynamics are happening

In Colombia, restrictions on President Gustavo Petro have come from both Congress and the high courts. In the rest of the region, similar dynamics are happening

The U.S. Department of Justice has built a case against a group of traffickers who transported drugs in small boats along the Pacific, making stops in Mexico and Central America

Associated with ideas of power and immortality, the bird occupies a prominent place in the popular imagination, but its population is at worrying figures. A sanctuary in Ecuador is fighting for the animal’s conservation

Scientists want Colombia’s Ministry of Environment to release a study on the proper course of action for this invasive species

The Colombian-American singer – known internationally for her hit single ‘Telepathy’ – spoke briefly about her mental health and mixed identity during a recent concert in Bogotá

Dozens of victims in Colombia lent money to a mother and son who led them to believe they were going to be invited to a royal reception in Spain

‘The Lancet’ has for the first time published a report on the relationship between health and climate change in the region

The Biden administration is already pursuing regulations to establish a new database on small business ownership

An OECD report indicates that on average people in Colombia wake up at 6:31 a.m., the result of cultural and religious customs. But is is also the least productive nation among the 38 members of the bloc

The success of the conference lies in its acceptance that while governments in the region do not share the same ideology, they share a common destiny

Catalina Delgado’s daughter was placed in a juvenile detention center when police discovered that she had been left alone while her mother went to work. She now faces a child abandonment case and a possible sentence of three years in jail

The study provides a rare partial count of casualties from these devices used by police around the world, including in Colombia, Chile, Hong Kong, and at Black Lives Matter protests in the United States

The Colombian queen of reggaeton has worked very hard to reach the top. She is a beast of her time. In art, business and narrative. Known as ‘La Bichota,’ she is a proponent of money, sex and feminism. With her latest album about sentimental breakups – ‘Mañana será bonito’ (Tomorrow Will Be Beautiful) – the star from Medellín’s ‘big bang moment’ has arrived

Technology companies in the region will find it harder to get financial services and raise capital after the demise of the niche bank

Latin America, the land of supernatural occurrences, has had just one episode of spectacular economic growth, which occurred in Venezuela in the 1940s and 50s

The US and a study by ‘Insight Crime’ maintain that under Nicolás Maduro’s administration, illicit crops and processing laboratories have increased in scope

According to a Global Energy Monitor report, the region may have more than 319 gigawatts of large-scale solar and wind power within the next decade

From positions in government, autonomous institutions or academia, female economists in the region are leaving their mark on public policy and resource management

The L.A. Declaration on Migration and Protection, fashioned by 21 countries at last year’s Summit of the Americas, builds on a legacy of reception and opens the door to a new, more effective future for migration management

As people continue to migrate, mostly to elsewhere in Latin America, there’s an increasing divide between those who stayed and those who left. These are some of their stories

The country’s aviation authority continues to study Avianca’s merger request with the low-cost carrier and urges the company to respect passenger rights

The more than five-week session of the Human Rights Council opens as the world grapples with rights concerns including Russia’s war in Ukraine

Mexican governors have gone to loopy extremes, like putting up billboards, creating special car lanes or creating mock-ups of Tesla ads for their states
Writers and publishers in the American continent are using literature as a tool to prevent the disappearance of endangered languages. Through books, workshops, classes and new spaces on the Internet, they seek to document, protect and revitalize the use of their languages and cultures

Oslo has developed a foreign policy based on facilitating negotiation, having participated in the resolution of more than 40 conflicts worldwide in recent decades

The city has been struggling to accommodate 45,000 new arrivals. Mayor Eric Adams – who insists that there is no more room – is asking them to go to Canada

Eliminalia uses fake news, cloned websites and bots to deceive Google, according to an investigation by Forbidden Stories and EL PAÍS, which for the first time reveals the company’s client list