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US deportations to Venezuela resume after dispute
Nearly 200 people were on board the flight carrying Venezuelan migrants repatriated from the US.
Published on: March 24, 2025 | Source:
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What makes a rum Jamaican? Question at heart of Caribbean legal dispute
The dispute centres on whether it is acceptable to age and bottle the spirit overseas.
Published on: March 24, 2025 | Source:Moment Pope Francis greets cheering crowds from hospital window
It's the first public appearance for the pontiff since he was admitted in February.
Published on: March 23, 2025 | Source:What is the 1798 law that Trump used to deport migrants?
The wartime Alien Enemies Act has been controversially used to deport Venezuelans to a mega-jail in El Salvador.
Published on: March 21, 2025 | Source:Oil giant's leaked data reveals 'awful' pollution
Colombia’s Ecopetrol polluted hundreds of sites, including water sources and wetlands, the BBC finds.
Published on: March 20, 2025 | Source:'It's him, it's him!' - Mother spots son deported from US in mega-prison footage
Some relatives of accused and deported gang members say their sons have been wrongly swept up in a Trump administration crackdown.
Published on: March 19, 2025 | Source:US and European armies should join our war on gangs, Ecuador president tells BBC
Daniel Noboa is calling on international armies to fight the cartels trafficking most of the world's cocaine.
Published on: March 19, 2025 | Source:'Oopsie, too late' - US courts tested by Trump's latest deportations
Two recent incidents have ignited fears that the White House is willing to defy court orders.
Published on: March 18, 2025 | Source:'Do you feel guilty?' - Watch BBC reporter challenge smuggler as he follows lethal drugs trade
Quentin Sommerville gains access to a cartel's operation as the US grapples with hundreds of thousands of opioid deaths.
Published on: March 12, 2025 | Source:Watch: Man survives being run over by train
Surveillance footage shows the man standing up and walking away after the incident in Lima.
Published on: March 09, 2025 | Source:Bahía Blanca: Residents flee homes in flooded Argentine city
Torrential rain has forced more than 1,200 residents to leave their homes.
Published on: March 09, 2025 | Source:Inside the dramatic turnaround that made Colombia’s second city a model for water management.
MEDELLÍN—For much of the 20th century, the Medellín River was an open sewer, collecting the untreated human and industrial waste of the Aburrá Valley. Stretching through the valley’s center, Medellín—a fast-growing city with a reputation for entrepreneurship—turned its collective back and closed its collective nose. Warehouses and rail tracks buffered the city from the rank ... Read more The post Inside the dramatic...
Published on: October 18, 2019 | Source:Disrupt Latin America
Microfinance revolutionized the financial services sector in Latin America over 40 years ago. Millions of individuals who were excluded from traditional financial institutions obtained access to a variety of financial products and services for the first time. Inevitably, there were gaps in coverage. In recent years, various players have been looking beyond microfinance to find ... Read more The post Disrupt Latin...
Published on: May 07, 2015 | Source:Argentina’s Debt: A Conflict of Principles
The reverberations of Argentina’s loss in NML Capital Ltd. vs. Republic of Argentina continue. The conflict stems from a 2012 decision by United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) Judge Thomas Griesa in a case brought by the hedge fund NML Capital Ltd. and others (NML), over $1.3 billion of ... Read more The post Argentina’s Debt: A Conflict of Principles appeared first on Americas...
Published on: February 03, 2015 | Source:Mexico’s Foreign Policy Agenda in Central America
In the past decade, Mexico has made strengthening ties with Latin America a top priority, reorienting its gaze from north to south. This is the product of two factors: criticism that Mexico was ignoring its southern neighbors, and strategic concern over Brazil’s assertion of leadership in the region. Starting in the 1990s with the implementation ... Read more The post Mexico’s Foreign Policy Agenda in Central America...
Published on: February 03, 2015 | Source:Venezuela’s Post-Chávez Foreign Policy
President Nicolás Maduro inherited a dramatically changed country—and economic situation—when he came to power following Chávez’ death from cancer in 2013. Within a year of Maduro’s election in March 2013, oil prices had started a steady decline. And as investment in the industry also dropped, production fell to 2.62 million barrels per day (bpd) from ... Read more The post Venezuela’s Post-Chávez Foreign Policy...
Published on: February 03, 2015 | Source:Double Trouble: Currency Unification in Cuba
After nearly 20 years, the dual currency system enacted by Cuba to help mitigate the economic shock from the collapse of the Soviet Union is set to be retired. As part of the government’s efforts to develop the country’s socialist economy, the Cuban government recently announced that it would unify its complicated currency system. In ... Read more The post Double Trouble: Currency Unification in Cuba appeared first on...
Published on: November 05, 2014 | Source:Post-Conflict Campesinos: Recovering Rural Colombia
Armed conflict and the presence of non-state armed actors harm both agricultural production and rural households’ well-being, for at least two broad reasons. First, conflict disrupts economic activities by hampering access to critical inputs and markets. As a result, producers may reduce or curtail planting or harvesting. Second, rural producers face an unpredictable environment for ... Read more The post Post-Conflict...
Published on: November 05, 2014 | Source:A Skeptic’s View on the “Peace Dividend”
On July 20, 2010, President Juan Manuel Santos promised the 9 million voters who had just elected him to his first term that he would build on the foundation created “by a giant, our President Álvaro Uribe.”1 He declared that Colombia could now look to the future with hope, thanks to the multiple successes that ... Read more The post A Skeptic’s View on the “Peace Dividend” appeared first on Americas Quarterly.
Published on: November 05, 2014 | Source:Cuba and the Summits of the Americas
In the coming months, the United States is going to face a tough choice: either alter its policy toward Cuba or face the virtual collapse of its diplomacy in Latin America. The upcoming Summit of the Americas, the seventh meeting of democratically elected heads of state throughout the Americas, due to convene in April 2015 ... Read more The post Cuba and the Summits of the Americas appeared first on Americas Quarterly....
Published on: November 05, 2014 | Source:Protest U.
Millions of students have taken to the streets across Latin America in recent years in protests that reflect an unprecedentedly broad mobilization of popular opinion. Following massive demonstrations led by secondary school students in 2006 in Chile, university students launched a series of protests in May 2011. Powered by a coalition of public and private ... Read more The post Protest U. appeared first on Americas...
Published on: July 28, 2014 | Source: