Global South

The Puerto Rican newspaper Claridad last week published an editorial stating it awaits the result of the government's efforts so that the truth may finally be known and the impunity of…
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Carlos Muñiz Varela's son has written to President Barack Obama, Justice Secretary Eric Holder, and Puerto Rican Democratic members of Congress to ask that the FBI cooperate with the…
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As part of a whirlwind diplomatic tour, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met Wednesday (April 23) in Buenos Aires with Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and prepared to…
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A couple of young Cubans who plan to travel to Ecuador say that their journey is to go "beyond" on a journey to the United States. It is one of many new dynamics in the relationship of…
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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi ended a two-day visit to Venezuela Tuesday night (April 22) and went on to Argentina, continuing a four-nation mission preparatory to a tour by…
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Nobel laureate whose novels and short stories exposed tens of millions of readers to Latin America's passion, superstition, violence and inequality, died at…
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President José Mujica of Uruguay said that next month, when he meets with President Barack Obama in the White House, he will stress the "big mistakes" that wealthy countries make with…
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Protests in Venezuela have made international headlines. Much of the foreign media coverage has distorted the reality of my country and the facts surrounding the events, writes…
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Colombia's foreign minister, María Ángela Holguín, last week acknowledged that the U.S. government had asked the administration of President Juan Manuel Santos to accept inmates from…
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The Guantánamo detainees accepted by Uruguay "are not dangerous," the nation's Interior Minister, Eduardo Bonomi, told reporters in Montevideo on Monday (March 24). The minister…
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