LatinaLista — According to this year’s annual report on global press freedoms by the Washington-based advocacy organization Freedom House, 2013 registered as the worst time for press freedoms in over a decade. After consulting over 60 analysts and digging…
By W. Alejandro Sanchez Council on Hemispheric Affairs In spite of ongoing tensions in Ukraine, which have seriously soured relations between Russia and the U.S. & Europe, Moscow has not altogether forgotten the Western Hemisphere. A case in point…
LatinaLista — One corner of the world has a new superhero and he’s battling one of the most dangerous villains of our time — hunger! Three days a week in the city of Bucamaranga, Colombia, a masked, cape-wearing Good…
By Kay Valle Infosurhoy.com Ninety-eight percent of femicides remain unsolved due to the lack of resources, according to Honduras’ Special Public Prosecutor for Women. TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras – One female was killed every 13 hours in the Central American nation…
By Anna-Claire Bevan LatinaLista Guatemala has long cultivated a reputation as one of the most dangerous countries for females in the Western hemisphere. Women are often caught in the middle of drug trafficking and gang violence and regularly fall…
LatinaLista — Today is a special day among Spanish-speaking countries. It’s known as El Día de los Niños. Kind of like Father’s Day or Mother’s Day, but honoring children. Unfortunately, the majority of children in Mexico, don’t have the…
By Antonio Larronda Infosurhoy.com Since 2010, the country’s rehabilitation system has been based on work, study, culture, sports and recreation. MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay – As soon as he started his four-year prison term in July 2012 for armed robbery, Andrés…
Peru This Week Eight of New York’s and New Jersey’s finest Peruvian and Pan-Latin restaurants, in partnership with the Trade Commission of Peru in New York, will introduce the Peruvian Quinoa Week as salute to the myriad culinary possibilities…
LatinaLista — What does lingerie have to do with empowering women? For Colombian-born Catalina Girald, it has everything to do with her San Francisco-based year-old lingerie start-up Naja. Girald’s definition of empowerment isn’t focused only on making women feel…
LatinaLista — On April 25, hundreds of children will take to the streets throughout Mexico. Not to play but to work — to demand that they have a childhood without violence. In a country where kidnappings exceed 100,000 a…
By Sergio Ramos Infosurhoy.com MEXICO CITY – Isabel Miranda de Wallace thought her son’s life was saved when she paid a US$114,642 ransom demanded by the three kidnappers who took Hugo Alberto Wallace Miranda, 33, in the nation’s capital…
LatinaLista — April 15, 2014 is a “red” letter day on the calendar. Not because taxes are due but because a celestial phenomenon that hasn’t happened in 10 years will be visible — the start of a full lunar…
By Anna-Claire Bevan LatinaLista Guatemala City´s ghettos are renowned for their gangs, drugs and violence, but when US-born director Coury Deeb stayed in one, he saw a different side to life in the slums – one of people trying…
By Eduardo Szklarz Infosurhoy.com BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – The organizers of the World Cup in Brazil are working with Interpol and law enforcement officials from Argentina and Uruguay to control the arrival of violent fans during the World Cup….
By Via Andina Peru This Week The First International Forum of Women Leaders from South America and Arab countries is set to run from April 7-8, 2014 under the theme “Women leaders transforming the world.” The two-day event is…
By Anna-Claire Bevan LatinaLista With the objective of saving one of Central America´s most popular tourist attractions, Yo soy Atitlán was launched in Guatemala last week, hoping to reverse the effects of contamination on what is described by many…
By Seth Robbins InSight Crime The execution-style murder of an employee at a public university in Mexico has shed light on the extortion of staff and students by the notorious Zetas cartel, indicating the group’s willingness to go to…
By Victoria McKenzie Colombia Reports Colombia’s Press Association is lending 52 tons of paper to three national Venezuelan newspapers on the verge of shutting down due to insufficient supplies to non state-owned dailies. Nora Sanin, executive director of Colombian…
By Hannah Vickers Peru This Week A pre-inca tomb has been found in Arequipa, in the building where Peruvian writer, Mario Vargas Llosa was born. After four days of investigation, the Ministry of Culture has confirmed that the remains…
By Anna-Claire Bevan LatinaLista “I was searching on the internet for alternative houses – aside from block, cement and metal,” says Amilcar Cachoy. “I´ve always wanted an ecological house like this but I didn´t have the opportunity because…
By Celeste Zarza Infosurhoy.com The National Anti-Drug Secretariat’s Community Prevention Program features summer camps, community centers and schools for parents. ASUNCIÓN, Paraguay – Recreation and healthy activities are the latest allies in the fight against drug addiction among children…
By Hannah Vickers Peru This Week The competition aims to increase innovation and encourage startups in Latin America. Silicon Wasi is back for another startup wars this March. Startups from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru will be battling…
By Anna-Claire Bevan LatinaLista Indigenous women in Guatemala occupy the bottom rung of the socioeconomic ladder. A lack of education combined with a traditionally machismo culture means that many Mayan women are often illiterate, unaware of their rights and…
By Michael Lohmuller InSight Crime A criminal group in Honduras is using songs about drug trafficking to glamorize criminal life for child recruits who they then train in the use of high-powered firearms, in another example of organized crime’s…
LatinaLista — Among the biggest threats to any nation’s eco-system is the loss of honeybees. It’s more than just honey that bees contribute to human diet; they are also responsible for pollinating up to 70 percent of the food…
