LatinaLista — PEN International is sounding the alarm for a young Honduran writer and student leader who has been targeted with intimidations and threats by his university administration because he participated in campus protests. Cesario Padilla, a journalism graduate…
LatinaLista — Mexico’s track record for inclusion and diversity of its indigenous population hasn’t been stellar. Yet, as a sign of (small) change taking root in the country, a significant initiative was recognized on August 12 in Mexico City…
LatinaLista — Back in July when Donald Trump first threw his hat (and foot) into the ring for the GOP presidential nomination, he made his first public insult of Latino immigrants. His now infamous quote reads: “When Mexico sends…
LatinaLista — Flocks of pigeons, dodging the feet of pedestrians in search of handouts, are a common site in most major cities around the world. However, unlike their friends in the animal kingdom who are battling for survival, pigeons…
LatinaLista — It is predicted that by 2020 Chile will be home to 70 percent of the world’s astronomical observatories. The main reason astronomers are flocking to the South American country is the unique sky conditions found in that…
LatinaLista — Some would say Cubans have been preparing to rejoin the world long before the official re-opening of the U.S. Embassy this Friday, when Sec. of State John Kerry is due to raise the stars and stripes for…
By Hillary Ojeda Peru This Week Peru is a country with an abundance of archaeological sites, beautiful and ripe with cultural history. Unfortunately, the resources are lacking to protect all of them from threats such as environmental damage and…
LatinaLista — Of all the countries in Latin America, Peru enjoys an extra fondness from the international community since its the steward of some of the most renown archeological treasures west of the Egyptian pyramids, namely Maachu Pichu and…
LatinaLista — Spanish-speaking countries are known as much for their laid-back, I’ll-get-there-when-I-get-there attitude as they are for their tradition of daytime siestas. But one governor in Bolivia has had it with employees arriving to work on “Bolivian Time.” Víctor…
LatinaLista — If visiting Peru’s National Museum of Archaeology, Anthropology and History (MNHAAP) has been on your bucket list, you may be able to check that off sooner than you thought. The MNHAAP opened its virtual doors to cyber-museum…
LatinaLista — Jaime Antonio Molina Martínez will probably think a long hard time before littering the streets again of San Nicolás de los Garza, a suburb of Monterrey, Mexico. And if he doesn’t, chances are there will be plenty…
LatinaLista — Femicide, the killing of women, has dominated headlines in Mexico ever since now-deceased Juarez activist Esther Chavez first brought the gruesome activity to international attention in the 1990s. According to the National Citizen Femicide Observatory, a coalition…
LatinaLista — It is said that over 200 times a second, half a billion times a month, somebody clicks on Wikipedia. Debuting 14 years ago, the online, crowd-contributed/corrected encyclopedia publishes 12,000 new pages every day, creating an archive boasting…
LatinaLista — In a growing number of countries around the world, governments are looking at cable cars as the latest mode of public transportation. While this “subway in the sky” is mostly associated with ski resorts, cable cars are…
By Hillary Ojeda Peru This Week The Mascho Piro is an uncontacted tribe of the Peruvian Amazon. They are not immune to illnesses such as the common flu and therefore the Peruvian government demands that they remain in isolation…
By Andrés Cala OZY You may see earthworms as little more than a bunch of slimy, wriggling shit eaters, and Juan Carlos Guáqueta wouldn’t disagree. In fact, that’s exactly what he loves best about them. The baby-faced Colombian entrepreneur…
By Rebeca Morla PanAm Post On Sunday, July 5, hackers infiltrated the Italian information-technology company Hacking Team (HT), which sells offensive intrusion and surveillance software to government clients all over the world. The data breach revealed 400 gigabytes worth…
LatinaLista — Japanese researchers from Yamagata University announced the discovery of 24 geoglyphs among the infamous images in Peru known as the Nazca Plateau. The scientists found the glyphs less than one mile from the city of Nazca and…
LatinaLista — Compared to its surrounding Latin American neighbors, Guatemala is a small-big country. A little over 15 million people, known as Guatemaltecos, live in country rich with biodiversity and archeological treasures. Guatemala, straddling the borders of Mexico, Honduras,…
LatinaLista — Mexico has the tenth largest population of birds in the world. Over 1,000 species either live year-round in Mexico to breed or migrate through the country as the seasons change. They range from the common-known parrots and…
By Jim Baer Council on Hemispheric Affairs Protestors in Lima, Peru demonstrated in March against the anticipated arrival of the USS George Washington, a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier that will spend several days in port at Callao as it returns…
By Hillary Ojeda Peru This Week Lake Titicaca faces multiple threats to its pristine environment 3,800 meters above sea level. Pollution and contamination threaten its wildlife, plants and quality of living for the local people. The local authorities are…
LatinaLista — The U.S. wasn’t the only country setting off fireworks this past weekend. Chile was celebrating a historic win over Argentina in the finals of the World Cup soccer tournament where Chile beat Argentina, a first in the…
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LatinaLista — The timeless tale of Alonso Quixano, better known as Don Quixote in the book The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha celebrates 400 years of literary notoriety this fall. Written by the Spanish novelist Miguel de…
