Speaking at the meeting of the boards of governors of the Inter-American Development Bank held in South Korea, Jose Juan Ruiz, the Chief Economist and Manager of the Research Department of the IDB, said that this year the "Short-term growth in Latin America is going to be poor. We're going to have a growth rate below 2 percent."
Guatemala President Otto Perez Molina announced on Friday an alleged gang member who had been suspected of ordering the recent killing of a young journalist has been arrested.
Although Russia has yet to hold any official negotiations regarding the leasing of a dozen supersonic bombers to Argentina, a senior government official has announced that the country would in fact be willing to consider such a deal in the future.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, who has mometarily stepped aside from accusing the U.S. of trying to undermine his socialist country and readying his military in the event of a U.S.-based attack, is preparing to give President Barack Obama a gift.
Regarding the plight of foreigners claiming torture in their home countries, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has stated that it is neither the responsibility of the petitioner nor of the government to determine if it is indeed safe for them to return to another part of the country rather than where their torture occurred
Governor Jay Inslee of Washington state has denied a request made by a Latino advocacy group Consejo Latino to remove Franklin County Prosecutor Shawn Sant from an investigation into the Feb. 10 deadly shooting of a Mexican orchard worker named Antonio Zambrano-Montes.
Saturday’s Powerball is here, and potential participants in the multi-state lotto will get a chance at winning $40 million, with an estimated $26 million cash value.
Authorities in Brazil have announced that they have uncovered a tax fraud scheme at the Finance Ministry's tax appeals board that might have ended up costing taxpayers up $5.96 billion.
Next season's "Pretty Little Liars" could go in any direction. Fans of the ABC Family teen mystery-thriller "Pretty Little Liars" got a pretty big payoff in the Season 5 finale, when it was revealed the “A” -- a hitherto anonymous character that has been cyber-bullying all the girls on the show with weird threats -- is a guy that goes by the unassuming name of Charles.
Immigration officials have announced that a former El Salvadoran defense minister who has been tied to human rights abuses in the 1980s has been taken into U.S. immigration custody and is awaiting final deportation orders.
Although it remains the world's seventh largest economy, last year the nation of Brazil very narrowing avoided experiencing an economic contraction ( a decline in gross domestic product) as it had a growth rate of a mere 0.1 percent.
In the upcoming episode "The Necessary Art” Elizabeth’s (Tea Leoni) husband Henry (Tim Daley) is in Russia delivering a lecture on fundamentalism when a Russian nuclear submarine vanishes in US waters.
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has been invited to make a state visit to Washington. Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has been invited to make a state visit to Washington.
In Colombia the populist form of artistic expression is seeing an increase. Murals have long been a preferred way for Latin American artists to voice their political opinions, and right now in Colombia, Colombia is seeing an increase in the populist form of artistic expression, according to The Associated Press.
Mogherini, the highest-ranking EU official to visit communist Cuba for several years, expressed hope that the two sides could sign an agreement by the end of 2015.
The Treasury Department has announced Tuesday that, in an effort to improve diplomatic relations with the communist island nation, dozens of Cuban companies have been removed from a U.S. blacklist of terror supporters and narcotics traffickers
Shay Mitchell talks about "Pretty Little Liars" finale. Any fan of the ABC Family teen mystery “Pretty Little Liars,” a series that comes off like a “Mean Girls”-styled “I know What You Did Last Summer,” understands that the show they love has a proven pattern of building up its world of manipulation and secrecy to a massive level before unleashing all drama on an anxious audience.
