Blog Posts - Latin America

The Happy Nomad Latin America is such a huge and unbelievably diverse region, it’s hard to boil all of its must-see beauty into one list. That said, we’ve done our best to help you figure out how to plan... by Bamba Experien...

Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos gives his acceptance speech during the award ceremony of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway, December 10, 2016. (Photo by AFP)Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos says a peace accord between Bogota and the...

A police officer works at the wreckage site of a chartered airplane that crashed in La Union, a mountainous area outside Medellin, Colombia, November 29, 2016. (Photo by AP)Bolivian authorities have arrested the head of the airline, whose plane crash...

Mounted riot police officers in Brazil are seen during a protest by civil servants against austerity measures, outside the Rio de Janeiro state assembly, December 6, 2016. (Photo by AFP)Hundreds of Brazilian civil servant protesters have engaged in v...

This file photo taken on December 01, 2016 shows Brazil's senate head Renan Calheiros speaking during a public hearing in Brasilia. (Photo by AFP)Brazil’s Supreme Court has suspended the head of the country’s senate as he faces charges of em...

Thousands of people have poured into the streets of Brazilian cities, including Rio de Janeiro, to express their opposition to alleged attempts by scandal-plagued Congress to shut down a huge anti-graft probe.Earlier this week, Brazil's lower house o...

Cubans have bid a final farewell to their late revolutionary leader Fidel Castro in the city of Santiago de Cuba where his ashes will be finally laid to rest.Hundreds of thousands of Cubans lined the streets to pay homage to Castro as his funeral cor...

Project Censored According to a June 2015 United Nations report, sixty million people worldwide are now refugees due to conflict in their home nations. The UN report indicated that during 2014 one out of every 122 people was a refugee, internally...

The bodies of those who died in a plane crash in Colombia earlier this week have been repatriated to their home countries.On Friday, the remains of 64 Brazilians, five Bolivians and a Venezuelan were taken from Medellin, where the plane crashed after...

Venezuelan Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez speaks at a meeting in Caracas, Venezuela, on December 2, 2016. (Photo by AFP)Venezuela has lambasted its suspension from the South American economic bloc Mercosur as a “coup” launched against Caracas.&...

Brazil’s Senate President Renan Calheiros (L) and federal judge Sergio Moro attend a session at the Federal Senate in Brasilia, December 1, 2016. (Photo by Reuters)Brazil’s top court has voted to put Senate President Renan Calheiros, a key ally o...

A view of the Colombian Congress’ House of Representatives during a session to vote on a new peace agreement signed between the government and the FARC, in Bogota, November 30, 2016. (Photo by AFP)Colombia’s Congress has unanimously ratified a re...

To waving flags and some shouts of "Long may he live!", Fidel Castro's ashes began a four-day journey across the island on Wednesday, retracing the path of his triumphant march into Havana nearly six decades ago.A small, Cuban-flag covered cedar coff...

Brazilian police have clashed with demonstrators in Sao Paulo, where tens of thousands of people took to the streets to peacefully protest against the newly-installed president Michel Temer.The rally, attended by at least 50,000 people on Sunday...

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos (2nd from R) speaks after delivering to the Congress the peace deal with the FARC rebel group in Bogota, Colombia, August 25, 2016. ©APColombian President Juan Manuel Santos says his government will formally si...

Tens of thousands of Argentinians have poured onto to the streets of the capital, Buenos Aires, to express their dissatisfaction with President Mauricio Macri's economic reforms and state job cuts.Members of workers’ groups, trade unions, consumer...

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is seen during a rally in Caracas on September 1, 2016. ©AFPHundreds of thousands have flooded the streets of the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, in rival marches for and against President Nicolas Maduro.Large crowds...

Brazil's ousted president Dilma Rousseff (C), who was removed by the Brazilian Senate from office earlier, speaks at the Alvorada Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, August 31, 2016. (Reuters photo)Brazil's ousted president Dilma Rousseff, who was stripped o...

Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto (L) walks along US presidential candidate Donald Trump before a joint press conference in Mexico City on August 31, 2016. (AFP)Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto says he has told US Republican presidential nomin...

Brazil's Dilma Rousseff gestures during her testimony in her impeachment trial at the National Congress in Brasilia on August 29, 2016. (AFP)Dilma Rousseff has been stripped of Brazil’s presidency following a Senate impeachment vote in Brasilia.Sen...

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