Modern Latin American History course for New College of Florida. Our resource for current issues pertaining to Latin American culture, politics, society, education, government, etc...
As you know, Puerto Rico is not an independent nation but a Commonwealth of the United States. This means that the chief of state would be the current president of the United States but that the he...
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1323109820100413?type=marketsNews
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5htm0kw0-KBGAWNvrzbVqQk1Y2DxAD9F1TOPO1
Fifteen people were killed this morning and at least twenty injured when a bus fell 100 feet into Lake Titicaca after going off the road at the edge of a ravine. The bus had been driving along one ...
The indigenous people living in the mountainous region just outside Cuernavaca City are literally having their water taken out from under them. Denied by the government the right to dig wells that ...
President Piñera has started his first international tour, starting with Argentina and Brazil. At this point he is trying to gauge foreign interest n the rebuilding of the country, targeting compa...
http://current.com/news/91628495_honduras-election-fraud-coups-and-us-support.htm this video is from december of last year, but it does a good job of giving a clear, investigative report on the el...
Small businesses are suffering in Chile because of the earthquake. Some that took many years to build were swept away in instances during the large tsunamis that followed the initial quake. Many ...
Chilean, Andrea Lira, living abroad in New York City decided to use her talents as an artist to keep the word out about the Chilean disaster. The visual image, in her opinion, is much more appeali...
meant to put this with the article posting, As of March 14th, Palacios was the 3rd journalist to be murdered in 2010. His tragic death was caused by bullets, 42 holes were found in his car, and th...
Nowadays there is a "day" for everything. April 17th was designated the "World Moon Bounce" Day. The Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, deemed the world's largest and most sensitive radiotelescope...
http://www.hondurasweekly.com/press-releases/UNESCO-Condemns-Killing-of-Journalist-NahAom-Palacios.html
April 8: The Brazilian federal government has just released $200 million reais in aid to the State of Rio de Janeiro, which has appealed to the national government for a total sum of $370 million ...
April 8: The Rio de Janeiro fire department is hindered in their efforts to rescue inhabitants (trapped in their homes due to flash floods) by the risk of landslides. Despite the decrease in volum...
