Peru’s far-left President Pedro Castillo deserves credit for trying to stop his country’s massive capital flight by vowing during a U.S. visit that he will not nationalize private companies. But there are good reasons why his words failed to calm down anxious investors...
The aviation market in Latin America and the Caribbean should by early 2024 recover to the size it was before the coronavirus pandemic, according to Arturo Barreira, regional chief of European aircraft maker Airbus...
Paulo Freire, who was born one hundred years ago, came of age in a country where half of all adults were illiterate and therefore disenfranchised. Freire’s ideas were forged in a uniquely Brazilian context.
In 2012, then President Dilma Rousseff signed into law Decree No. 12.612, making socialist pedagogue Paulo Freire the official patron of education in Brazil. From the moment pen touched paper, Rousseff’s decree has set off a firestorm of criticism. Reaching a fever pitch after Jair Bolsonaro’s victory in the 2018 presidential election, the controversy around Freire’s influence has become a topic of heated national discussion and the fuel for countless right-wing conspiracies of “Marxist indoctrination.”...
The proof of vaccination is necessary to obtain a Mobility Pass issued by the Chilean Ministry of Health, which will allow you to move freely around the country by showing digital proof of vaccination. Additionally, all visitors to Chile, regardless of age, will need to show results of a negative COVID-19 PCR test taken within 72 hours prior to departing for Chile...
City Hall’s investment and trade promotion agency, better known simply as investBA, was created less than half a decade ago – but the agency is already making a name for itself on the international stage. In an interview with the Buenos Aires Times, investBA’s General Director Alejo Rodríguez Cacio explained where the agency fits into an ever-changing Argentina and the biggest challenges facing the nation.....
The Paraná River, which winds through Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina, has dropped to its lowest levels in 77 years as a severe drought continues to punish the region...
Mexico is one of the most biodiverse countries in the world. Much of that life depends on its 165 million acres of forests, which cover about one-third of the nation’s land area. Millions of monarch butterflies migrate from North America to forested hillsides in Mexico’s Sierra Madre mountains every winter. Tropical forests in southern Mexico harbor jaguars, spider monkeys, crocodiles, anteaters and nearly 500 species of birds...
Marijuana has always been a complicated subject in Mexico. However, recent legal regulations make it appear that it will soon be fully legal. Hempresarios gives you the opportunity to know the way to get into this business. Marijuana has always found itself in legal limbo on national territory. However, a giant step was recently taken that appears to be heading towards the full legalization of cannabis in Mexico...
Elite fixations often determine press coverage, and no one in power wants to talk about Daniel Ortega anymore. Today, almost no mainstream media discussion even considers Nicaragua—or any Central American nation, for that matter—outside of the context of the immigration “crisis.” This is one area where the Biden administration has failed to change Trump’s racist and deliberately inhumane policies...
In the last decades, Chile has made tremendous progress towards greater economic prosperity and lower poverty. Per capita income more than doubled over the past 20 years and is now the highest in Latin America. These progresses have now come to a halt. Since October 2019 Chile has faced two unprecedented shocks, the social protests and the COVID 19 outbreak...
Venezuelan migrants and refugees who have moved to different parts of South America have struggled to get shots because of legal requirements at vaccination centers. And that could slow down efforts to stamp out the coronavirus in the region...
Cuba has started commercial exports of its coronavirus vaccine, Abdala, with shipments arriving in Vietnam and Venezuela. The move comes weeks after Cuba said it sought approval from the World Health Organization for its three home-grown vaccines. Cuba is the only country in the Caribbean to have developed a vaccine...
There are plenty of 2021 films coming out soon, but until they do, we're stuck at home, waiting for the next big release. While you could view some of the best films on Netflix or the best films on Amazon Prime right now, I think it's normal to step outside of your movie comfort zone and take a look at international films to see what the world has to offer. That’s why today you’ll get to find out how to watch some of the best Mexican movies, like Roma or Coco, out there right now that you can stream, many from prominent Mexican directors like Guillermo del Toro or Alfonso Cuarón...
When it comes to popular depictions of Latin America and its culture, shallow stereotypes of what is a profoundly diverse region abound. Which is why, to truly get Latino culture, you need to tune out of popular — and often sadly inaccurate — tropes and tune in to indigenous rappers, quinoa sushi and cannabis-infused teas are transforming Latin America’s cultural and gastronomic landscape even as brave activists work to preserve the region’s astonishing natural beauty....
Did you know that in Mexico, there's a special bread for Day of the Dead, the November 1-2 holiday that celebrates the lives of Mexicans' ancestors? Pan de muerto has been a tradition since shortly after the Spanish initially brought wheat to Mexico.
When the Spanish arrived in what is now known as Mexico 500 years ago, they were horrified by the native tradition of human sacrifice to give thanks for a good harvest, and insisted that this new bread—a wheat bread with the top dyed red to represent the heart or blood—be made to represent that gruesome offering instead. Today, pan de muerto comes in many regional forms and is baked and eaten all over Mexico with no thought whatsoever of that dark history...