Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez’s announcement of a possible cancer recurrence raises questions about Venezuela’s political future, as well as what it could mean for countries dependent on Venezuelan aid.
A U.S.-funded naval base has been a source of debate in the Dominican Republic at a time when the country faces mounting drug-trafficking woes.
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden will travel to Mexico and Honduras next month ahead of April’s Summit of the Americas.
With Brazil poised to become one of the world’s top petroleum producers, a sugar-production slump and rising biofuel prices have left its ethanol industry is in an uphill battle against corn-based imports and an ever-growing gas sector.
The February 14 fire that claimed more than 350 lives in a Honduran prison revealed the grave overcrowding in the region's jails and raised questions about modernizing Central America's justice system.
A new law years in the making will provide compensation and land to victims of Colombia’s protracted armed conflict. The Santos administration, which lobbied for the bill’s passage, rallied support for the law after it went into effect in 2012.
Henrique Capriles Radonski won the nomination of Venezuela’s opposition coalition in the Sunday primary. With the backing of a unified opposition, can he pose a challenge to President Hugo Chávez in the October election?
