Last year was a difficult year globally, but 2016 will not be much better for Latin America. Due to enormous political tension, power struggles, soaring inflation and falling currencies and commodities, the region became the worst-performing emerging market in 2015. Unfortunately, the World Bank has projected earlier this month that the region wouldn’t grow at all this year.
In 2014 thus far, the number of murders in Puerto Rico has been reduced by 26 percent compared with numbers from within the same months last year, reports from the island's Superintendent revealed Thursday.
According to World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, the effect the Ebola outbreak has had in poor West African countries is a reflection of the dangers of global inequality.
Uruguay President Jose Mujica pade a visit to the White House on Monday and sat down with President Barack Obama to discuss the cultural and economic ties between the U.S. and South America.
Latin America and the Caribbean, it seems, are two of the most blood-soaked regions on the planet. Statistics indicate that 30 percent of the world's homicides occur in the Latin American and Caribbean region.
