The peace deal between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) will take center stage on Feb. 4 as President Barack Obama is set to host his Colombian counterpart, Juan Manuel Santos, at the White House.
The Colombian government is set to ask the United States for millions of dollars in additional aid as it nears a historic peace deal with the country's Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Negotiations could end South America's longest-running guerrilla conflict.
"DF," the acronym by which Mexico City has been known for decades in Mexico and many Spanish-speaking countries, ceased to be accurate on Jan. 29 as President Enrique Peña Nieto officially changed the capital's name from "Distrito Federal" to "Ciudad de México."
In an effort to score points with a key electoral demographic, Republican leaders underlined this week that more than half of GOP caucus-goers voted for a Hispanic candidate in the Feb. 1 Iowa caucuses.
The Zika virus that has scared Latin America for months was reported in the United States for the first time on Feb. 2, but the transmission apparently occurred via sexual contact rather than through a bite from the Aedes aegypti mosquito.
His victory in the Feb. 1 in Iowa means that Ted Cruz feels vindicated in his attack on Donald Trump's "New York values," the Texas senator noted on the evening of the first-in-the-nation caucuses.
Cuba's state-run telecommunications company ETECSA announced on Jan. 31 that it is launching a pilot project to allow everyday citizens to order broadband Internet for their homes, a service until now only available to foreign executives.
Even though Donald Trump has two Hispanic rivals and, early on in his campaign, alienated many in the Hispanic community with his controversial comments on immigration, most Latino Republicans want him to be their party's 2016 White House nominee, a new poll revealed.
While critical in the party contests to pick presidential nominees, Iowa is not known for its Latino community. But some 3 percent of the Hawkeye State's voters are, in fact, Hispanic, and could potentially make a difference in the close races expected in the Feb. 1 caucuses.
The government of Puerto Rico on Feb. 1 released the details of its plan to restructure the commonwealth's massive debt and satisfy creditors' demands, but the island's creditors was questioned by one bond insurer.
"The road to power is paved with hypocrisy, and casualties," (fictional) President Frank Underwood once proclaimed on "House of Cards," and one such casualty seems to be showrunner Beau Willimon, who will no longer be on board when the Netflix hit show returns for a fifth season in 2017.
Colombian authorities allowed a same-sex couple to jointly register a child with the civil registry, a move celebrated by LGBT rights groups as another step toward equal treatment of gay and lesbian citizens in the South American country.
A Brazilian judge wants to authorize abortions for women whose children are likely to be stillborn due to microcephaly, a birth defect whose occurrence has skyrocketed in the country and that experts belief might be linked to the recent outbreak of the Zika virus.
Cubans may be anxiously awaiting the benefits of their newly relaxed ties with the United States, but the communist government in Havana is also turning to old allies as it announced a new trade agreement with North Korea.
Puerto Rico will take the next step in efforts to resolve its fiscal crisis on Jan. 29 by presenting investors with an offer to swap existing bonds for two new types of securities.
Hillary Clinton on Jan. 28 seemed to acknowledge that Bernie Sanders was an increasingly viable challenger for the Democrats' 2016 White House nomination when she said she was ready to show up for a debate on Feb. 4 in the crucial primary state of New Hampshire.
Most Americans support Barack Obama's efforts to allow certain undocumented immigrants to remain in the United States, even though on a personal level, they do not seem to trust the president on the issue, a new poll revealed.
As the Obama administration faces controversy for stepping up deportation efforts, a viral video showing the arrest of an undocumented immigrant in California illustrates the effect such measures are having on families residing in the United States.
Predictions that Donald Trump would not be able to hold on to his front-runner status have failed to materialize days before the Iowa caucuses, but most Americans say they nevertheless are uncomfortable with the idea of the real-estate tycoon moving into the White House.
Dozens of U.S. Senate Democrats have urged Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., to act quickly on legislation that would give Puerto Rico access to bankruptcy protections and thus help the island territory address its dire fiscal situation.
The Costa Rican ambassador in Washington says the United States can learn from his country as it tries to address complex issues surrounding immigration.
The current outbreak of the Zika virus across large swaths of South America presents a public health threat of "alarming proportions" and could affect as many as four million people, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Jan. 28.
If your monthly budget is stretched out in these final days of January and you'd like to boost it - considerably - then you might consider investing in a Mega Millions ticket for the Jan. 28 drawing.
Mexico's highest court on Jan. 26 legalized same-sex marriage in Jalisco state, which is home to more than 7 million inhabitants and contains the country's second-largest city, Guadalajara.
