Latin American Affairs

The protests in Venezuela in the last three weeks have escalated to violence and face off between security forces and protestors causin...

Uruguay was named as " the country of the year in 2013" by the Economist magazine ( 21 december issue) for its bold and pionee...

Politics of the region will be more pragmatic and less polarized  and radical in 2014 and in the coming years thanks to the end of Chav...

"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...