By all accounts, the world tour of Cuban dissident Yoani Sánchez, which shifts today from the U.S. to Europe, has so far proven a Buena Vista Social Club-caliber success. For those weary of the feckless, half-century-long …
Interfaith relations have always been awkward for the Roman Catholic Church. That may change—if the new Pope’s statements are any indication
To their discredit, some princes of the church live like princes. But Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, Argentina’s most powerful Roman Catholic prelate, isn’t one of them: he’s a priest who leads a humble lifestyle that reflects his …
I couldn’t be happier that Mexico’s economy is rebounding. After barely 2% average annual growth between 2000 and 2010, the country’s GDP expanded almost 4% in 2011 and 2012. Investment is booming and the middle class is …
Like his idol, Fidel Castro, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez was one of the most garrulous and pugnacious leaders Latin America has ever known. That makes his death in Caracas today, March 5, at age 58, after a long and …
Many of the dead in the fire were young science and engineering students — just the kind of experts the country needs to advance into the ranks of the first world. Has the time come for Brazil to make sure its legal system …
Latin America brings historic confidence to its economic summit with the battered EU in Chile this weekend, but its own precarious problems lie just beneath the surface.
Poet Richard Blanco, who will read at the inauguration, represents the new face of America—and Cuban-America
Not surprisingly, it will take longer than anticipated to rebuild quake-ravaged Haiti—and the government has to step up. But President Martelly has made some smart moves that he and the country can build on.
Venezuela has decried its neighbors’ loose ways with their constitutions, but the ruling party in Caracas does much the same — especially when it comes to Chávez
As the socialist President fights to recover from cancer surgery in Cuba before his Jan. 10 inauguration, his 1999 charter leaves Venezuela in governmental limbo
The Maya solstice represents a hopeful new cosmological beginning—and that ought to mean an end to our tiresome arrogance and indifference toward the world south of the border.
President Hugo Chávez acknowledges that he could be sidelined for good, and a special presidential election might be on the horizon. Can his oil-fueled revolution function without him?
