Sunday's vote in Puerto Rico served as the biggest of the last three Democratic primaries taking place, even though the territory can't participate in November elections. Hillary Clinton won by a substantial margin, but additional delegates secured by rival Barack Obama brought him closer to securing the Democratic nomination.
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After more than four decades of civil strife in Colombia, the death of the FARC’s founder and commander Manuel Marulanda's serves as the latest setback for an already weakened rebel group.
President Rafael Correa appoints a new head of state-owned Petroecuador after official figures show a slowdown in crude oil production. The move comes after Ecuador proposed to cut windfall taxes for private firms and signed a refinery agreement with Venezuela.
U.S. presidential candidates square off this week over the future of Washington's Cuba policy. Meanwhile, Raúl Castro's government has passed limited reforms since taking office.
Leaders from the European Union and Latin America gathered in Lima for a biennial summit, focusing on trade, inequality, and climate change as rising food prices threaten to exacerbate poverty.
President Leonel Fernández Reyna, credited with turning his country's economy around, is expected to win a May 16 reelection bid. Fernández's administration would face a set of challenges in a new term, ranging from food price inflation to a remittance slowdown to persistent social inequality.
Following the release of first quarter indicators and news of record FDI rates, several Latin American countries showed capacity to weather global economic volatility. But analysts warn of slower growth in the coming year.