By Deborah Charnes LatinaLista MEXICO — I’ve lived in developing countries where even the poor don’t drink the water from the faucet, knowing it’s full of amoebas. I’ve travelled and worked in environments where even “good” restaurants have no hot…
By Anna-Claire Bevan LatinaLista For over 50 years, Lyn Hovey has been working with stained glass, using 13th and 14th century painting techniques to create complex and authentic works of art. From a 30-foot-tall window in a school chapel…
By Isaiah Marcano Council on Hemispheric Affairs With an electoral season approaching, the islands comprising Puerto Rico have once more become the center of debate and conflict. Recently, the current Governor of Puerto Rico and statehood advocate Luis Fortuño…
By Edward Fox InSight Crime Since the “Northern Triangle” of El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala emerged as the main corridor for US-bound drugs, it has become one of the deadliest places in the world to be a woman, and…
By Anna Bevan LatinaLista Guatemalan President Otto Pérez Molina launched a new National Development Plan for Sustainable Tourism, which aims to increase the number of tourists visiting the country by 35 percent over the next 10 years. Speaking to…
LatinaLista — While most polls show that Mexican voters flocking to the polls today in their presidential election aren’t too optimistic that things will change in their country, the rest of the world remains hopeful. Hopeful that it will be…
By Dina Gonzalez Global Press Institute BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA – Elena Reynaga, a thin, olive-skinned woman, says she chose to become a sex worker at age 19. Today, Reynaga is 60 and retired. “My body can’t anymore,” she says…
LatinaLista — There are two things the world expects from the outcome of this weekend’s presidential election in Mexico — drama and accusations of cheating. In a country that is recognized the world over for its systemic corruption, expectations…
By Anna-Claire Bevan LatinaLista GUATEMALA — “You don’t need to see to be able to read” was the message Guatemala sent to the world last month when it launched Central America’s first ever Braille newspaper. Together with the Committee…
By Natalia A. Bonilla Berrios LatinaLista UNITED KINGDOM — Eager for a change in their home country, hundreds of Mexicans abroad are demanding true democracy, fair results and social growth as the July 1st presidential election approaches. And they…
By Shannon K. O’Neil LatIntelligence Though specific countries usually capture the headlines for their bloodiness — Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and often Colombia —security problems are widespread throughout Latin America. For the region which holds the unfortunate distinction of being…
By Vanessa Rivera de la Fuente Global Press Institute In the suburbs surrounding the city of Buenos Aires, three women use community radio to broadcast a weekly segment that gives voice to stories concerning women. They aim to increase…
By Ashton Farmanara and Alexander Frye Council on Hemispheric Affairs Last March, U.S.-Honduran relations came under studied scrutiny after Representative Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) and 93 other House members sent a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton advocating an…
By Martha Ramos LatinaLista MEXICO CITY — Just when the presidential campaign was getting as boring as it can be, a bunch of university students raised their voices. What exactly happend? Enrique Peña Nieto, candidate of the PRI party,…
By Anna-Claire Bevan LatinaLista When an accident forced her to stop riding five years ago, California-raised Suzanne Divoff was determined to keep working with horses, and on the streets of La Antigua Guatemala she saw an opportunity; Helping Hooves…
LatinaLista — Today, the 71st annual Madrid Book Fair (Feria del Libro Madrid) opened in the city’s Retiro Park. Organized by the association of book retailing entrepreneurs of Madrid, the publishers’ association and the federation of national associations of…
By Geoffrey Ramsey InSight: Organized Crime in the Americas Reporters Without Borders has said that the biggest threat to press freedom in Honduras is powerful landowner Miguel Facusse Barjum, though the accusations do not stop there — Facusse has…
By Alexander Frye Council on Hemispheric Affairs At last month’s meeting of the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs in Vienna, Bolivian President Evo Morales made headlines by dramatically brandishing a coca leaf he had apparently smuggled into the…
By Anna-Claire Bevan LatinaLista GUATEMALA CITY — When in July of 2010 the municipality of Guatemala City called for all red buses to be removed from certain parts of the capital, Hugo Cristal and his business partner Alexander Escobar…
by Dina Gonzalez Global Press Institute Although paco, a drug derived from cocaine, has a reputation of being a lower-class drug, it has extended to affect middle-class families as well. Families of people addicted to the popular street drug…
LatinaLista — Rape is a despicable act wherever and whenever it’s done. Yet, when it’s used as a weapon of war during conflict it’s time for the world to speak up in defense of the victims. A new international…
Revue Magazine Two human rights defenders who have worked extensively in Guatemala and elsewhere in Latin America will be honored this month in New York with one of the largest human rights awards in the world. The Abraham Lincoln…
By Melissa Beale Council on Hemispheric Affairs Approximately 300,000 children around the globe have been recruited as child soldiers. These children are forced to enter “various armed groups, civil militia, paramilitaries and government armed forces.” According to the United…
By Edward Fox InSight: Organized Crime in the Americas While Mexican drug gangs, particularly the Zetas, are known to have expanded into human trafficking in Mexico, there is little substantive evidence to back recent claims that they are becoming…
By Cristina Avila-Zesatti Global Press Institute Once barred from mines by an ancient myth, women here make up an increasing percentage of the mining industry’s labor force as they try to support their families and fill in for men…
