As Latin America prepares for a challenging year in 2016, the decision to support democratic alternatives stands out as good news in an otherwise grey end of the year for Latin America.
Politics and diplomacy provide the main themes for Latin Pulse this week. The program marks the anniversary of the diplomatic opening between Cuba and the United States with a special interview recorded in Havana. It also follows the complicated corruption scandal in Brazil that has now intersected with the political movement to impeach and unseat President Dilma Rousseff.
Como pasajeros a la espera de un bus del Transantiago que nunca se sabe cuándo llegará, los estudiantes no saben si podrán acceder a la gratuidad porque no ha sido definido cuál será la línea de corte y porque no está claro qué instituciones podrán acceder al beneficio.
Eager to own a piece of their native homeland, Cuban Americans are placing their bets on the island’s underground foreign real estate market.
Um ano após o histórico anúncio da retomada das relações entre EUA e Cuba, as ações por expropriações movidas em território americano contra Havana após a Revolução Cubana podem atrasar passos complexos da reaproximaçao, como os voos comerciais e o fim do embargo.
The real threat from the December 3 constitutional amendments in Ecuador isn’t the possibility of indefinite re-election for President Correa, it’s the way they were approved and their implications for freedom of expression.
As of Thursday, it’s been one year since President Barack Obama announced historic change between the United States and Cuba, and now with embassies restored, commercial flights to Cuba may be coming.
In August 2015, El Salvador registered its bloodiest month since its 1980-1992 civil war. There were 907 murders, including 52 in a single day on August 27. The country is on track to end the year with over 6,000 murders in a population of just 6.4 million, making it the most violent country not at war in the world.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos is not the only president to have wagered his legacy on the possibility of peace. But securing both his legacy and peace will require avoiding the mistakes of past negotiations.
Mis héroes del 6 de diciembre son los 43 venezolanos que votaron a favor de la MUD en la zona popular de Chirgua venciendo el miedo y la coerción para ejercer su derecho a votar libremente.
