It’s unclear whether President Nicolas Maduro is bursting out of his shirt because of his robust diet—which he likes to brag about—or out of pride for defying the regional community this week.
Two years ago scientists stumbled upon hundreds of dead whales in a remote area of Patagonia in southern Chile in the biggest single whale stranding ever recorded.
Corruption scandals, heavy rains and mudslides have sent the president’s approval ratings tumbling
Chile may become the latest Latin American country to shift to the right.
Soon Rafael Correa will be an ex-president. Will he go calmly into presidential retirement or noisily wait in the wings for a future return?
If Central America wants to get out of the middle-income trap it would do well to follow Uruguay’s lead and develop a focused, comprehensive industrial policy that builds on the region’s trade advantages.
India’s entry for the Oscars, Visaaranai, didn’t win. But it helped direct attention to a real and all-too-often overlooked problem: police abuse and impunity.
The March 28 OAS Permanent Council discussion on Venezuela was a not-so-subtle rebuke to the failed efforts at dialogue. Instead of acknowledging shifting international opinion, though, the next day Venezuela Supreme Court gave the OAS its sharpest example yet of an “interruption in the constitutional process.” Now what?
In the strongest language so far, a joint statement signed by 14 states (and supported by 4-more Caribbean states) condemns Venezuela under the Inter-Democratic Charter. And it asks other member states to follow up if Venezuela doesn’t comply.
Don’t be fooled. President Maduro’s call for UN help in addressing Venezuela’s humanitarian crisis—of the government’s own making—is just another in a long line of distracting tactics.
