Urban areas with large Hispanic populations tend to draw more Hispanic vacationers, compared to other destinations in the U.S. And when traveling abroad, Hispanics like to go where they have a semblance of kinship and relative roots.
The Venezuelan border with Colombia will close every night this month to try to curb smuggling The Venezuelan government has deployed 17,000 troops to the country's border with Colombia in an anti-smuggling operation that will close the border each night for the next month, BBC reported.
Russia put a ban on imported foods from the EU and U.S. The European Union appears set to hold talks with Latin American countries to discourage them from exporting food to Russia, according to a report from RT.
President Barack Obama issued a presidential memorandum continuing the U.S. drug interdiction assistance program with the government of Colombia. A similar program for Central American countries, however, may be difficult to execute.
Tayyip Erdogan won the Turkish presidential election by a wide electoral margin Sunday. Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan won Turkey's first direct presidential election with a landslide victory Sunday, solidifying his already strong control over the Turkish political system.
Some Yazidi have managed to escape and reach Kurdish-controlled territory; however, thousands remain trapped in mountains and are being held captive by ISIS.
A powerful typhoon has left two dead and 1.5 million people evacuated. Typhoon Halong hit western Japan Saturday leaving at least two dead and around 30 injured.
about 1/3 less are voting in this years elections than in the previous one, in 2010 Brazil is seeing the lowest population of registered teen voters for the upcoming October election, according to reports.
Argentina has played host to an important conference on LGBT tourism and has led the way in Latin America toward acceptance, thereby benefitting economically.
This Sunday 500 Yazidis killed and 300 kidnapped into slavery by ISIL. Iraq's human rights minister Mohammed Shia al Sudani announced Sunday that at least 500 Yazidis been killed and about 300 had been kidnapped by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant or ISIL.
A medical school in the Caribbean may prove to more competitive now than in recent memory. Some doctors are having a second chance at getting into medical school, and the opportunity lies in the Caribbean.
France to join U.S., U.K. in delivering humanitarian airdrops to Yazidis in northern Iraq France announced Sunday it will join the aid efforts to send supplies to northern Iraqis trapped by Islamic State militants, joining the multinational effort that includes the U.
Patient Zero in the latest Ebola outbreak in western Africa is reported to be a 2-year-old boy who died last December in Guinea in a village that borders Sierra Leone and Liberia.
Palestine announced it would accept a 72-hour cease-fire Sunday in order to allow peace talks to progress with Israel, who refused to attend the talks if violence continued.
