The Latest Breaking News from Latin America

I have read Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude five times.

Trump picked Christopher Landau, a lawyer and former ambassador to Mexico, to be his next deputy secretary of state

First published in 1967, One Hundred Years of Solitude, marked out Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez as a leading figure among the notable Latin American writers of his generation. Now, the long-anticipated Netflix adaptation of this epic saga comes to our screens after first being announced in 2019. It does…

It is the first successful attempt to do so after 17 years of efforts

Instead of human operators watching a bank of monitors, panning-and-scanning for activity, AI-powered security systems watch every screen constantly, looking and listening for criminal or unruly behavior.

Nov. 29 - Dec. 5, 2024

Cab companies run by women provide safe rides in a country with one of the worst rates of sexual violence in Latin America

Activists targeted as US-linked hard-right campaigns sow disinformation ahead of inter-American court of human rights ruling on case of woman who was denied abortion in 2013

University of Michigan survey links firearm threats to post-traumatic stress disorder among migrants.

Ecuador's homicide rate increased from 6.7 per 100,000 in 2019 to 45 per 100,000 in 2023; only Jamaica (49) has a higher rate in the Americas

A twice-yearly shot that prevents HIV infections will be available at low cost in 120 poor countries