Since its 19th-century independence wars from Spain, Latin America has embraced caudillismo: a political system headed by ...

During the lecture, titled “The Resilience of Democracy in Latin America,” Levitsky argued that capitalist economic ...

Last week 200 academics, activists, land defenders and journalists from around the hemisphere attended the Fifth Latin American Congress of Political Ecology, where participants outlined the emergence ...

Central and South American countries face significant environmental dilemmas. Conservationists in Latin America, home to some of the most important ecosystems in the world, are persisting in their ...

The recent publication of a study on secret archives of Brazil’s1964-1985 military dictatorship has shed light on this fascist terror regime’s forging of a ...

Venezuela hopes the prospect of ‘another Iraq’ in Latin America serves as a deterrent against US intervention.

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- At midnight on March 17, Paraguay closed down the Friendship Bridge to Brazil. It was the first time in more than half a century that traffic stopped on the emblematic land link ...

By betraying Venezuela in its hour of need, Latin America has virtually ensured the kind of U.S. intervention they detest.

Latin America, characterized by its cultural and ethnic diversity, burgeoning economies, rising political instability, and pronounced inequality, is a region that defies simple definitions and ...

Conservationists in Latin America, home to some of the most important ecosystems in the world, are persisting in their environmental work despite political challenges that can sometimes stand in the ...