The OAS General Assembly met in El Salvador to focus on the issue of violent crime plaguing many parts of the Americas. But regional leaders differ on how to forge new solutions.

AS/COA Online provides a guide to help understand the tight race between Keiko Fujimori and Ollanta Humala.

The Brazilian House of Deputies passed a law that would open up more of the Amazon to small farmers—a move environmentalists denounce as an invitation to accelerate already rising deforestation.