Latin American Affairs

"If an award could be given in 2013 for Country of the Year, Mexico might deserve it. No other country has done more this past yea...

Poverty rate has decreased signifcantly from 48.4 % in 1990  to 27.9 % in 2013 and extreme poverty has declined from 22.6%  to 11.5 % in ...

While the Chilean elections held in November have brought back to power the Left which is a role model for the region, the elections hel...

The Leftist coalition candidate Michelle Bachelet won 47% of the votes in the presidential elections held on 17 November while her righti...

"Atalaya XXI – when Nature Hits back" is the novel of Juan Alfredo Pinto Saavedra, Colombia's ambassador to India for s...

Here is the link to The Hindu which published the article as an Op-Ed piece on 24 September 2013 http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/a...

While the massive June protests by over a million Brazilians have subsided, minor protests continue in small scale for diverse causes in...

Horacio Cartes of the Colorado party won the presidential elections held last sunday in Paraguay. The Colorados had ruled the country conti...

The election of Nicolas Maduro, the chosen heir of Chavez, in last sunday's  election, is good news for the peaceful and orderly transi...

I grieve for the untimely and sad death of Chavez, for whom I had great admiration when I went to Caracas in 2000. He worked for the poor p...

A group of 39 students and professors from La Sabana University of Colombia were on a study cum sightseeing tour between 22 November and...

India’s foreign policy strategy has been unique from the outset and given the country’s peculiarities it is unlikely to adapt to outsider...

La Nueva India ( the New India) is the first Latin American book on the rising of India in the twenty first century in spanish language....