Twenty-one years ago a Cuban-American lawyer named Magda Montiel Davis, upon meeting Fidel Castro in Cuba, and gave the communist leader a kiss on the cheek, and subsequently suffered a bomb threat and a lot sexually graphic hate mail.
A recent increase in illicit air shipments of cocaine to Bolivia has caused the neighboring nation of Peru to reconsider their previous policy of shooting down small aircraft suspected of transporting the coca-based drug.
After the discovery of 5,000 new dinosaur footprints, the landlocked Latin American nation of Bolivia can now boast the largest number of dinosaur prints in the world.
According to new research, the decision to forgo a color-blind approach and, instead, encourage frank discussions about ethnicity, race and gender in the classroom could yield impressive results, including: differentiated instruction, frequent family engagement, a positive culture and professional educational environments.
On Saturday the government of Spain activated an environmental emergency alert regarding oil slicks that threaten to come ashore beaches on the southwestern Canary Islands.
A quartet of former Guantanamo Bay prisoners protested for a second day on Saturday. The four ex-detainees were demanding further assistance from the Uruguayan as well as the U.S. governments regarding their adaptation to living life in their new home.
Despite the fact that Russia’s commercial interests in Latin America have grown over the past decade, the fruits of a free flowing trade between Russia and the region has been overshadowed by the greater need for political allies.
Domestic violence, the horrendous pattern of abusive behavior whereby an intimate partner inflicts violence on their significant others, is impacting women and men across the U.S. But, Latinos are ready to challenge domestic violence victimization.
During a recent trade mission trip to Cuba the Roswell Park Cancer Institute of Buffalo, New York signed an agreement which will allow them to import a Cuban lung cancer vaccine called CimaVax.
Several flights to the capitals of Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay have been cancelled as ash from the Chilean volcano Calbuco, which erupted earlier this week, reached as far as southern Brazil on Saturday.
According to Mexico's economy minister Ildefonso Guajardo, the Ohio-based Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company is set to invest $550 million to build a new plant in Mexico.
Antonio Ledezma, the incarcerated mayor of Venezuela's capital Caracas, was transferred from prison to a hospital where he will undergo emergency surgery for a groin hernia
Chocolatier and founder of MarieBelle New York (SoHo) Mariben Lieberman has a refined palate, a worldly perspective, and an extraordinary expertise in cacao as evidenced by her signature artisanal ganache, equisitely roasted coffee, and world-class Aztec Hot Chocolate.
According to a new book called “Final De Partida” (End Game) Juan Carlos,the ex-king of Spain, was leading a double life and having an affair with a German aristocrat for the last ten years of his reign.
A 61-year-old farmer named Victoriano Huayna has become the the first fatality of a month long protest against a Mexican-owned copper mining project in Peru.
Radioactive material that was stolen in Cardenas, Tabasco on April 13 was recovered on Wednesday.
The small container of deadly material had been abandoned under a pedestrian bridge.
When Civil rights and labor leader Cesar Chavez passed away - 22 years ago to this day -- he didn't receive full graveside honors from the U.S. Navy at his memorial in California, but because of a fellow Navy sailor the past will change.
"Eat Mexico" a colorful and attractive cookbook authored by journalist, homecook and entrepreneur Lesley Téllez, tells the story of the antojitos, the street foods of Mexico City.
A Slovenian archaeologist named Ivan Šprajc has discovered the lost city of Lagunita, a Mayan city built circa 700 AD and mysteriously abandoned four centuries.
