By Anna-Claire Bevan LatinaLista Nicholas Hellmuth’s fascination with the ancient Mayas started long before he was part of the team that dug up the tomb of the Jade Jaguar King in Tikal, Guatemala, at age 19. But that’s when…
By Ángela Meléndez InfoSur Hoy QUITO, Ecuador – The dreams that many families in Ecuador have for their 14-year-old children are being turned into nightmares by drugs. That’s the average age young people start using drugs in Ecuador, according…
By Marta del Vado LatinaLista The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination expresses their concern to Washington regarding the potential “discriminatory impact” of the construction of the US-Mexico fence on indigenous communities living on both sides of…
LatinaLista — The continuous growth of social media underscores one very important fact — it has power. People-power to be precise. Because of social media, people are coming together online to donate to causes, invest in ideas and innovation,…
By Diego M. Ortiz Peru This Week The people of Nauta, Loreto don´t want their native language, Kukama-Kukamiria, to disappear. So to that end the NGO, Create Your Voice, teamed up with a local radio station, Ucamara, to record…
By Anna-Claire Bevan LatinaLista Guatemala City – Economics students are no strangers to numbers. Chris Temple and Zack Ingrasci were familiar with the overwhelming statistic that 1.1 billion people live on a dollar day, but they still couldn’t understand…
By Diego M. Ortiz Peru This Week At more than 16,400 ft the WindAid turbine set the Guinness World Record the highest-located wind generator. A group of students and professors from Northampton Community College in Pennsylvania, USA, helped set…
By Anna-Claire Bevan LatinaLista If you thought beauty pageants were about tiaras, tantrums and two-pieces, think again. For the past 45 years, indigenous women have been gathering in the mountainous town of Coban, Eastern Guatemala, to participate in a…
LatinaLista — According to the Small Business Administration, women-owned businesses are the fastest-growing segment of new businesses in the U.S. economy. An American Express analysis found that the number of women-owned businesses grew over the past year by 200,000,…
By Anna-Claire Bevan LatinaLista A $25 million project to conserve Guatemala’s natural resources and reduce the effects of climate change in the Central American country has been launched with funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)….
By Ezra Fieser Infosurhoy.com No killings of women have been reported in more than a month, a major accomplishment for a country that had one of the world’s highest rates of femicide in 2012. SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic –…
LatinaLista — Ecuador is a tiny country. Tucked in between Colombia and Peru along the Pacific Ocean, it’s best known for being the steward of the Galapagos Islands. But to the frustration of the country’s tourism department, Ecuador’s mainland…
By Edy Bestle LatinaLista The picture looks like it could have been taken in some awesome and cold place in Europe, right? But that can’t be. It’s summer time there now. In fact, just yesterday, people waiting for word…
By Mike Allison Central American Politics Pew Research released the results of its Global Attitudes Project last week and Salvadorans emerge as the people with the most positive attitudes towards the US out of all people in the hemisphere,…
LatinaLista — There’s not much to smile about these days for the people of Venezuela but one show in town is putting smiles on faces of all ages. It’s the seventh annual Festival Internacional de Teatro Muñecos (International Theater…
By Steven Dudley InSight Crime The capture of the Zetas leader Miguel Treviño, alias Z-40, may mean more violence in the near term as his minions fight for the most coveted brand name in Mexico’s underworld and his rivals…
By Antonio Larronda Infosurhoy.com The Uruguayan government is offering $15,000 Uruguayan pesos (US$750) a month to the families of victims of violent crimes. MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay – Victims of violent crimes and their relatives can apply to the government for…
By Patrick Corcoran InSight Crime A new report from a Mexico City analysis firm details the rivalries among local trafficking groups, thereby revealing some of the deeper causes of some spectacular recent acts of violence in the city. The…
By Paul Willcocks Honduras Weekly I’d certainly argue that you don’t have to believe in God to help others. It seems a natural thing to to do for any thinking, feeling creature. But it’s striking that the people who…
By Anna-Claire Bevan LatinaLista What started out 30 years ago with a man called Fernando directing artisans on potter’s wheels in the small town of Rabinal, Guatemala, has resulted in a worldwide water revolution. In Guatemala alone there are…
By Diego M. Ortiz Peru This Week Since last Monday, people in district of Monte Salvado in the region of Tambopata, have been reporting sightings of more than 150 indigenous people living in voluntary isolations. According to a report…
By Fátima Martinez / Leslie J. López LatinaLista SPAIN — In a nation suffering its worst economic crisis in recent history, Spain’s youth is leaving a trail from the Iberian Peninsula to the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Germany and…
LatinaLista — Salvador Allende is an integral part of Chilean history. A 40-year career politician, Allende was the first Marxist to become president of a Latin American country through open elections in 1970. It wasn’t long before his policies…
By Anna-Claire Bevan LatinaLista An ancient Mayan ball game has been brought back to life by a Guatemalan company aiming to encourage youths to reconnect with their ancestry through modern technology. Mayan Pitz is the first-ever videogame for mobile…
By Edy Bestle LatinaLista (LL Editor’s Note: News outlets have been reporting over the rising protests, the biggest in 20 years, to hit Brazil. The following piece provides insight into the unrest that a country making preparations to host…
