Most Livable Cities in Latin America
as-coa.org/Maria del Carmen Landa reported Porteños get another chance to brag about their hometown. Once again, Buenos Aires topped the list of Latin America and the Caribbean’s most livable cities, per the Economist Intelligence Unit’s 2016 Global Livability Ranking, released last week. The Argentine capital made the top half of the index, followed by Santiago, Chile; San Juan, Puerto Rico; Montevideo, Uruguay; and San José, Costa Rica. The ranking evaluates 140 cities around the world, assessing which offer the best living conditions when it comes to safety, healthcare, culture and environment, education, and infrastructure. Australia and Canada hold six of the survey’s top 10 positions, with Melbourne topping the list for the sixth year in a row. Read Article
August 23, 2016
Porteños get another chance to brag about their hometown. Once again, Buenos Aires topped the list of Latin America and the Caribbean’s most livable cities, per the Economist Intelligence Unit’s 2016 Global Livability Ranking, released last week. The Argentine capital made the top half of the index, followed by Santiago, Chile; San Juan, Puerto Rico; Montevideo, Uruguay; and San José, Costa Rica. The ranking evaluates 140 cities around the world, assessing which offer the best living conditions when it comes to safety, healthcare, culture and environment, education, and infrastructure. Australia and Canada hold six of the survey’s top 10 positions, with Melbourne topping the list for the sixth year in a row.
Buenos Aires ranks high. Here’s why.
For many, there’s little surprise about the top Latin American spot going to Buenos Aires, given its high marks for its extensive cultural offerings like beautiful architecture and world-class museums. In terms of environmental concerns, the City of Buenos Aires undertook major efforts to combat climate change and was recognized with a C40 & Siemens City Climate Leadership Award in 2013 for its sustainable mobility plan, as well as in 2014 for its waste management strategy.
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Education has also played a vital role when it comes to the city’s regional ranking. In fact, Argentina holds one of the highest literacy rates of the region, at 98 percent. Five years ago, under the leadership of Esteban Bullrich—who then oversaw the city’s education policy and is now the Argentine education minister—Buenos Aires went through a comprehensive educational reform with the goal of ensuring students’ success through the improvement of teachers, administrators, and the city ministry’s performance, all while engaging families and communities throughout the process.
Challenges for cities and global livability
On a global level, threats of terror and civil unrest hurt cities scores across the board in the latest report, with only six out of 140 cities improving their results over the past year.
Latin America is no exception, and cities in the region failed to break into the survey’s top 60. In general, the region’s cities benefit from a relatively good performance in cultural and environmental indicators, and some successes in education. But the stability indicator, which considers levels of delinquency and crime, brings down Latin America’s rankings. Crime-plagued Caracas is considered Latin America’s least livable city, holding spot 123 overall, and it stands among the ten global cities that have experienced the biggest declines in livability over the past five years.
The best-performing cities tend to be in relatively wealthy countries and have low population densities, providing good quality infrastructure and low crime levels. But business hubs like New York and Paris can often see their rankings harmed, since they tend to attract an influx of residents who overwhelm infrastructure, security, and transit systems. That, in turn, leads to congestion and environmental degradation, problems that are familiar to major Latin American hubs like Rio de Janeiro (90) and Mexico City, which ranked between 102 and 106 in the 2015 survey. (The EIU does not release full current-year report rankings.)
Why cities matter
Major urban areas are drivers of economic growth. For example, Buenos Aires and Santiago account for 31 and 46 percent of each country’s GDP income, respectively, and account for about 40 percent of the national population in both cases.
In 2007, for the first time in history more people lived in cities than in rural areas around the world. Rapid urbanization sparked the creation of a standalone goal for cities to address urban challengesas part of the UN’s 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. In October, Latin America will host a major UN housing and urban development summit—which only happens once every 20 years—when Habitat III takes place in Quito. Policymakers, experts, and leaders will focus on a new agenda affecting the quality of life of the world’s majority urban population.
Elizabeth Gonzalez produced the charts for this article.
Africa
- Five Ghanaians found dead on Colombia-Panama border in route to U.S.
- Guayaquil Ecuador: Medical Authorities to rule out ebola virus in death of visitor from Africa
- Ecuador detains international roving band of credit card cloners
- EBOLA: Colombia restricts access to all persons coming from infected countries in Africa
- Brazil: man just returned from Africa, isolated with possible symptoms of ebola virus
Agriculture
- Ecuador: Banana Growers lower production, not able to meet contracts to customers
- Ecuador: Puerto Bolivar destined to become largest container terminal in Latin America
- Ecuador: Small Banana Exporters Facing Challenges
- Peru: 50,000 alpacas succumb to freezing temperatures
- Ecuador: Grassroots groups fighting against GMO seed companies
Archaeology
- Ecuador: Could a Buried Incan Gold Stash be in Llanganates National Park?
- Honduras: Archaeologists begin excavation of possible "White City Ruins"
- Ecuador: Giant Skeletons in Amazon region sent to Germany for analysis
- Andes: Archaeologists locate unidentified lineage in mummy
- Honduras: Troops dispatched to protect "lost city" from looters
Argentina
- Terrorism: Bombings in Argentina
- Mexico, Argentina, Brazil in top 21 countries at risk for extreme public unrest
- Argentina: Declassified files show Kissinger jeopardized efforts to stop mass killings
- Ecuador: Two Murderers of Argentine tourists in Montañita get 40 years prison
- Argentina: Amazing Waterfalls you may never have heard of
Asia
- North Korea accuses Mexico of illegally detaining ship
- More African, Asian migrants using Costa Rica on route to U.S., Canada
- Nepal citizens arriving in Ecuador by sea, using as route to the U.S.
- 40 Percent of New Vehicle Sales in Ecuador from Asia
- Lack of trade pact with South Korea, hurting Ecuadorian businesses
Ayahuasca
- Ecuador: Investigation in death of U.S. citizen Leslie Allison continues according to Shaman
- Shaman declines to comment on death of American Leslie Allison in Ecuador
- Ecuador: Young U.S. woman dies in Ayahuasca ceremony in the jungle
- Peru: Canadian tourist who killed friend after using Ayahuasca, had no choice
- Peru: Canadian Tourist Released From Jail for killing friend after ayahuasca ceremony
Bolivia
- Ten South American Destinations worth a visit you may never have heard of
- Copacabana, Bolivia: Supermarket employee murdered (video-graphic)
- Bolivia: Three routes identified for commercial sex trafficking
- Bolivia: Woman arrested for selling her baby on Facebook
- Colomia leads Peru, Bolivia in cocaine production
Border Issues
- Ecuador accused of war crime in case of missing Peruvian civilian during Cenepa conflict
- So far in 2016, 26,000 unaccompanied children apprehended at US-Mexican border
- Little known involvement of the U.S. in Ecuador after border war with Peru
- Mexico fails in managing increased migration flows from Central America
- Detained ISIS operative confirms terrorist operating cells in Anapra Mexico
Brazil
- Brazil: Olympic Commttee Official detained for illegal ticket sales
- Mexico, Argentina, Brazil in top 21 countries at risk for extreme public unrest
- Rio de Janeiro Brazil: Mugger shot dead on route of Olympic Torch close to Athletes Village
- Rio de Janeiro: Protests disrupts arrival of Olympic Torch
- Brazil warned threat of terrorism high for Olympic Games
Brazil Travel
- Zika Virus not only concern for visitors to olympics, be aware of chikungunya virus
- Brazil: Dark Side of the Olympics, Sex Workers offer specials to lure foreign clientele
- Rio de Janeiro Brazil: Police threaten to strike during Olympics
- Brazil Olympics: Group urges olympic games to be postponed or moved from Rio de Janeiro (Zika Virus)
- São Paulo: Suspect Shot During Attempted Assault of Tourist
Business
- Ecuador to open trade office in Iran
- Ecuador: New Treaty to help visually impaired with exceptions to copyrighted material
- Ecuador: Govt. plans expansion of electronic money for payment
- Ecuador: Puerto Bolivar destined to become largest container terminal in Latin America
- Ecuador Credit Union Representatives visit Indiana to gain new ideas for operations
Cacao Global
- Commodities firm stops buying cocoa from Ecuador
- Improving the organisation and commercialisation of small coffee and cocoa producers in the Northern Amazon Region of Ecuador
- Chile: Imports of chocolates grew 35 % in 2011
- Ecuador claims to have 62% of the world's market for high quality cacao
- Ecuador among top ten cocoa producing countries
Caribbean
- Granada: U.S. Tourist Murdered with Machete
- Antigua Caribbean: Coconut Palms Dying Off
- Philipsburg, Sint Maarten: Tourist dies while on diving trip
- Caribbean countries fishing sectors warned of ocean acidification
- 100 percent of the Latin American and Caribbean population is susceptible to Chikungunya fever
Central America
- So far in 2016, 26,000 unaccompanied children apprehended at US-Mexican border
- Mexico fails in managing increased migration flows from Central America
- Former President of El Salvador dies while under house arrest
- U.S. to expand refugee program for thousands fleeing violence in Central America
- El Salvador: 2015 most violent on record in reported murders
Chile
- Chile: Massive Protests atainst privatized pension plan
- Ten South American Destinations worth a visit you may never have heard of
- Chile: Founder of North Face dies in kayaking accident
- Chile: Tourist from Belgium dies after falling into geyser while taking pictures
- Chile: Evacuations ordered after earthquake from some coastal areas, tsunami alert
China
- Ecuador and China sign co-operation military defense agreement
- China Donates 10,000 modern version AK47s to Ecuador's military
- Ecuador Interpol works with Chinese counterparts in deportation of accused tax evader
- Nicaragua: Inter-Oceanic Canal Project put on hold
- Venezuela receives $5 billion financing package from China
Ciudad Juárez
- Loja Ecuador: 124 tonnes of onions seized, infested with pests, flies, larvae, fungus
- Mexico: 13 'Hot Spots' for Human Trafficking Identified
- Mexico: Police Detain12 Suspected of Murdering 11 Young Women
- Ciudad Juarez Mexico: returns to life four years after being labeled most dangerous city
- Ciudad Juárez Mexico, no confirmed cases of West Nile Virus
Colombia
Conflicts
- Colombia, Farc to sign peace deal
- Venezuela: Govt. will fire civil servants for signing recall petition for Maduro
- Ecuador: pro-Palestinian group denounces private security company
- Ecuador: Teachers Union Calls For Nationwide Protests August 25, 2016
- President Maduro threatens what will happen if there is coup attempt in Venezuelaey child's play compared to similare event in Venezuela
Corruption
- Peru: Investigation into alleged group of police carrying out illegal killings
- Latin America still risky for FCPA violations
- Mexico: New Graft Legislation goes into effect
- Brazil: Scandal of the Lunch Money Mafia
- Ecuador: President, brother mentioned in Panama Papers, focus of inquiry by Panama authorities in 2012
Costa Rica
- Costa Rica: Recorded deaths of U.S. citizens from Jan. - May, 2016
- Costa Rica: Expat from U.S. attacked by crocodile
- Costa Rica: Panamanians sentenced for stealing cocaine, disguised as U.S. DEA agents
- Costa Rica: Tourist from U.S. reports rape in Puerto Viejo
- Survey Says Expats in Ecuador, Costa Rica: high level of satisfaction with their love lives
Crime
- Ecuador accused of war crime in case of missing Peruvian civilian during Cenepa conflict
- Ecuador: Crime Statistics 2016, Carchi, Loja safetest provinces in the country
- Peru: Investigation into alleged group of police carrying out illegal killings
- Cusco Peru: Two women dressed in traditional costumes rob tourists (video)
- DEAD: Tourist dies in Cusco Peru, participating in Ayahuasca ritual
Cuba
- Cuba: Nicholas Maduro President of Venezuela in Cuba with wife for Castro's birthday
- Ecuador Deports asylum seekers without due process per Human Rights Watch
- Ecuador: Cubans Detained May Be Deported
- Emotional Moments when Cuban Migrants Reach Shore of Florida Keys, U.S. (Video)
- 2700 cubans headed to U.S. through Mexico from Costa Rica since January 2016
Culture
- Zika Virus Reignites Abortion Debate in Brazil
- The Real Ecuador According to Don Nadie, expats and future expats take note
- Brazil: Tourists Complain of Violence at Rio Carnival
- Brazil: Financial Crisis Prompts City Governments to Cut Funds for Carnival
- Ecuador: Nomads of the Rainforest -Waorani Indians- NOVA documentary
Dominican Republic
- Dominican Republic: Three U.S. citizens, Canadian model arrested, allegedly filming scenes for porno movie in public
- German Tourist Murdered over necklace by assailants in Dominican Republic
- U.S. Citizen Murdered in Dominican Republic
- Vatican places former envoy to Dominican Republic under arrest for sex abuse
- Dominican Republic: Alert Declared in 18 of 32 provinces, intense rains
Drug Activity
- DEAD: Tourist dies in Cusco Peru, participating in Ayahuasca ritual
- Mexico: Commission finds police executed 22 in Michoacan
- Costa Rica: Panamanians sentenced for stealing cocaine, disguised as U.S. DEA agents
- Ecuador and Drug Trafficking (2014 Report)
- Colombia: Authorities seize 8 tons of cocaine on banana plantation
Earthquake
- Ecuador: Catholic Relief Services assessment of damage in earthquake area of Jama
- Caylloma Peru: 5.3 earthquake kills 4 including one U.S. citizen, STATE OF EMERGENCY DECLARED
- Operations at Quito Ecuador airport interrupted after earthquake, now operational
- Ecuador: 28,000 still in temporary shelters after April earthquake
- Ecuador: 2,280 aftershocks reported since earthquake of April 2016
Easter Island
Economy
Ecuador
- Ecuador accused of war crime in case of missing Peruvian civilian during Cenepa conflict
- Ecuador: Crime Statistics 2016, Carchi, Loja safetest provinces in the country
- Ecuador to open trade office in Iran
- Ecuador: Three Detained in Assault on Inter-Provincial Bus, Ibarra-Tulcán
- Ecuador criticizes British Security for intrusion attempt at embassy in London
Ecuador Emergency
- Ecuador: Crime Statistics 2016, Carchi, Loja safetest provinces in the country
- Ecuador: Three Detained in Assault on Inter-Provincial Bus, Ibarra-Tulcán
- Ecuador: Catholic Relief Services assessment of damage in earthquake area of Jama
- Ecuador: Two Austrian hikers and Ecuadorian missing, rescued off of Volcano
- Study Ranks Ecuador 40 out of 80 countries in dealing with quality of death care
Ecuador Hotels
Ecuador Travel
- Ecuador: Crime Statistics 2016, Carchi, Loja safetest provinces in the country
- Cuenca Airport Closed until September 19, 2016, runway repairs
- Ecuador: Two Austrian hikers and Ecuadorian missing, rescued off of Volcano
- Ecuador: Two suspected assailants detained in shooting of U.S. citizen playing Pokémon Go
- Cuenca: Airport closed for one month for resurfacing
Ecuador Trivia
- A piece of Ecuador Culture exported to Harlem New York, ECUAVOLEY
- Little known involvement of the U.S. in Ecuador after border war with Peru
- Ecuador Trivia: Country's Worst Aviation Accident just outside Cuenca
- Ecuador: racial injustices wrought by neoliberal urban policies
- Communist Propaganda In Ecuador in 1942, letter from J. Edgar Hoover
El Salvador
- El Salvador: State of Emergency Declared at Seven Prisons
- Former President of El Salvador dies while under house arrest
- Zika Virus: Health Officials Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador advise women to postpone pregnancy
- El Salvador: Murder rate is pandemic according to coroner
- El Salvador: 2015 most violent on record in reported murders
Enviromental Issues
Europe
- Denmark Development Relations with Latin America
- Ecuador criticizes British Security for intrusion attempt at embassy in London
- UK: Man confronted scaling Ecuador Embassy, where Julian Assange is housed
- Russia: Putin/Panama Connection
- Ecuador on mission in Europe to share its philosophy of "good living"
Explosives / Bombs
- Guatemala: Remote Controlled Explosive Devices Used on Bus Attacks
- Routes of Illegal Arms, Explosives Trafficking in Northern Ecuador
- Bogota Colombia: Police nab individual trafficking Iridium 192, depleted uranium
- Chiclayo Peru: Cache of Illegal Fireworks Explodes (Video)
- Ecuador: Headquarters of Ruling Party Bombed in Guayaquil
Extortion
- Mexico: Immigration Officials Accused participating in criminal network, blackmailing relatives
- Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil: Police Officers Detained for Extortion and Corruption Charges
- El Salvador: businessmen complain authorities do little to curb extortion
- Ecuador: Despite warning from President Correa, police continue corruption of demanding money from victims to investigate
- Head of La Familia Michoacana drug trafficking organization caught in Mexico
Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
- Argentines' upset over call to rename Falkland Islands capital, "Port Margaret"
- Crisitna Fernández rejects Falkland Island's referendum, calls voters as squatterss
- Falkland Islands: referendum results, no desire to be governed by Argentina
- Falkland (Malvinas) islanders to vote on sovereignty
- Argentina accuses Britain of sending nuclear ships to Falklands
FARC
- Colombia, Farc to sign peace deal
- Ecuador: Mixed Gangs of Colombians and Ecuadorians scaring residents in Sucumbios
- Ecuador: Possibility of FARC members dissenting to form new criminal group
- COLOMBIA: INSIDE LOOK AT THE WOMEN OF FARC
- Colombia: Doctor Detained for Performing Forced Abortions on Female FARC Fighters
Galapagos Islands
- Ecuador to increase conservation efforts in the Galapagos
- Galapagos Islands: Wind Turbines Helping Reduce Diesel Use on Islands
- Galapagos Islands, First Bird Extinction recorded
- Galapagos Islands: Number of visitors up five percent in first half of 2015
- Galápagos Islands: Sea Lion Behavior Differences in Relation to Human Exposure
Guatemala
- Guatemala: Remote Controlled Explosive Devices Used on Bus Attacks
- Guatemala: 49 cases of Zika virus registered in past three weeks
- Guatemala: Every dreamed of sleeping in Che Guevara's bed? Here is your chance, nine dollars
- Guatemala: 17 dead in violent prison brawl
- Guatemala: Graves whose lease has expired or not paid, bodies being exhumedved
Guyana
- Guayana: Five charged in murder of tourist from UK
- U.S. Embassy advises U.S. citizens not to use Caribbean Airlines on Flights from Guayana to U.S.
- Guyana: October 2013, U.S. oil search ship detained by Venezuela navy
- Guayana: visit teenager from Ireland charged after threatening to assasinate president
- Guayana: Breeze Soap Powder shipment contained 350 kilos cocaine set to ship to Africa
Haiti
Health
- Rabies from dog bites persisent problem Latin America and worldwide
- Ecuador: Dengue Cases Up in Three Provinces but down across the country
- São Paulo, Brazil: Study Reveals Genetic Diversity of HIV in Infected Patients
- Doctors in Brazil Plan Electoral Campaign Against Incumbent President Dilma
- Brazil: Over a 22-Year Span, Infant Morality Rate Drops by 77% Nationwide
Honduras
- Roatan Honduras: German Tourist dies while snorkeling
- Honduras: Over 100 attorneys slain in last five years
- Honduras: Increasing Political Violence, slain indigenous activist
- Honduras: Archaeologists begin excavation of possible "White City Ruins"
- Honduras: Students from U.S., Columbia University, Barnard College die in bus crash
Human Rights Latin America
Human Smuggling
- Peru: Man detained using Facebook to meet minor females to work as prostitutes
- U.S. to expand refugee program for thousands fleeing violence in Central America
- Peru: U.S. citizen detained in sex trafficking, exploitation. sex tourism case
- Human Smuggling Ring Between South Asia, Ecuador, U.S. Dismantled
- Ecuador: Human Smuggling Ring dismantled, migrants from Pakistan, India, Bangladesh
Intelligence
- Detained ISIS operative confirms terrorist operating cells in Anapra Mexico
- Declassified Documents Show CIA Involvement in Ecuador Since the 60s
- Ecuador: Websites reporting on 'Hacking Team" victims of DDoS attacks
- Ecuador: Leaked Documents reveal President used public funds to delete critical online content of him
- Latin America: Assange claims NSA eavesdrops on 98% of communications from South America
Internet
Labor Issues
- 100,000 rally in Guayaquil Ecuador in launch of proposed labor laws
- Ecuador: Labor Unions, Indigenous Groups call for new protests on Nov. 19, 2014
- Ecuador: History of Preventative Resistance and Violent Suppression, Intag Valley
- Santiago Chile: Thousands of Passengers impacted by transportation strike
- Ecuador: New Work Law Announced
Latin America Aviation
- Cuenca Airport Closed until September 19, 2016, runway repairs
- Cuenca: Airport closed for one month for resurfacing
- Ecuador Trivia: Country's Worst Aviation Accident just outside Cuenca
- Operations at Quito Ecuador airport interrupted after earthquake, now operational
- Guayaquil, Ecuador: New Airline granted permission for routes to U.S., no dates announced yet
Latin America Book Review - Recorded Interviews with Authors
- A History of Modern Latin America 1800 to the Present
- Ritual and Remembrance in the Ecuadorian Andes
- The Guinea Pig - Healing, Food, And Ritual In The Andes
- Begging As A Path To Progress - Indigenous Women And Children And The Struggle For Ecuador's Urban Spaces
- Magical Writing in Salasaca - Literacy and Power in Highland Ecuador
Latin America Health
- Ecuador: New Treaty to help visually impaired with exceptions to copyrighted material
- Study Ranks Ecuador 40 out of 80 countries in dealing with quality of death care
- Guatemala: 49 cases of Zika virus registered in past three weeks
- Ecuador: Petition filed requesting to decriminalize abortion
- Peru: Woman enters hospital for kidney stones, leaves without hands and feet
Latin America Indigenous Issues
- Ecuador: Legal Status of Indigenous Peoples and key political issues facing communities
- Ecuador: racial injustices wrought by neoliberal urban policies
- The Culture of Debt in Northern Andes of Ecuador
- Peru: 50,000 alpacas succumb to freezing temperatures
- Washington State, U.S.: Second case of Zika virus confirmed in traveler who visited Ecuador
Latin America Mining
- Ecuador: Questions as to who murdered Indigenous leader, a critic of Rafael Correa
- Peru: Illegal mining causes mercury pollution, emergency declared
- Colombia: Dangerous Quest for Emeralds
- Ecuador: Investment in mining to reach $600 million in 2016
- Venezuela forced CITGO into insolvency to avoid liability, says claim
Latin America Travel
- Cusco Peru: Two women dressed in traditional costumes rob tourists (video)
- DEAD: Tourist dies in Cusco Peru, participating in Ayahuasca ritual
- Cuenca Airport Closed until September 19, 2016, runway repairs
- Mexico: Recorded deaths of U.S. citizens from Jan. – June, 2016
- Guatemala: 49 cases of Zika virus registered in past three weeks
Latin America Wikileaks
- Latin America: Assange claims NSA eavesdrops on 98% of communications from South America
- U.S. ambassador explains corruption in cable released by WIKILEAKS concerning Brazil
- Ecuador, Wikileaks cable discusses long term impact of melting glaciers
- Jamaican Prime Minister states U.S. officials misrepresented him in diplomatic cables
- Wikileaks shows U.S. and Brazil to partner against drug trafficking
Latin America Womens Issues
Mexico
- Huamantla, Mexico: MAN GORED BY BULL IN RUNNING OF THE BULLS (VIDEO)
- Mexico: Storms Damage Monarch Butterfly Population
- Mexico: Journalists accuses President Nieto of plagiarism
- Mexico: Recorded deaths of U.S. citizens from Jan. – June, 2016
- Mexico, Argentina, Brazil in top 21 countries at risk for extreme public unrest
Mexico Spanish Schools
Mexico Travel
Michuocan
Nicaragua
- 13 die as tourist boat capsizes near Corn Islands Nicaragua
- Nicaragua: Inter-Oceanic Canal Project put on hold
- Nicaragua: One of the Highest Rates of Sexual Violence Against Girls in the World
- Nicaragua: 71 confirmed cases of Chikungunya Virus
- Latin America: Cuba, Ecuador, Nicaragua lead in narrowing gender gap
Oil
- Ecuador pays $112 million to Chevron in arbitration award
- Ecuador: At current oil prices, 20 billion dollars in proven oil reserves declared
- Ecuador: No reason given for resignation of oil minister
- Ecuador drilling on edge of Yasuni
- Ecuador’s oil troubles worse than other oil exporting countries (opinion)
Organized Crime
- Puerto Vallarta Mexico: 16 customers in restaurant abducted
- Ecuador: Mixed Gangs of Colombians and Ecuadorians scaring residents in Sucumbios
- Ecuador: Possibility of FARC members dissenting to form new criminal group
- Mexico: Drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman has been captured
- El Salvador: 2015 most violent on record in reported murders
OXFAM Latin America
Panama
- Panama: Ambulance driver, staff robbed while in route to hospital with an injured patient
- Costa Rica: Panamanians sentenced for stealing cocaine, disguised as U.S. DEA agents
- Panama closes border with Colombia in attempt to stop drug trafficking in region
- Ecuador: President, brother mentioned in Panama Papers, focus of inquiry by Panama authorities in 2012
- Panama: Tax Scam Lawyer, son of Nazi SS officer
Paraguay
- Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil, Uruguay: Flooding causes evacuation of over 100,000 people
- Paraguay: Tourists From Brazil, Perish in Capsized Boat Accident
- Sinaloa Cartel Using Two Ports In Peru for major shipments of cocaine hidden in coal shipments
- Paraguay: Teachers to strike for three-months
- Paraguay: Since inception of democracy 115 peasant leaders executed or disappeared
Peru
- Ecuador accused of war crime in case of missing Peruvian civilian during Cenepa conflict
- Peru: Investigation into alleged group of police carrying out illegal killings
- Cusco Peru: Two women dressed in traditional costumes rob tourists (video)
- DEAD: Tourist dies in Cusco Peru, participating in Ayahuasca ritual
- Caylloma Peru: 5.3 earthquake kills 4 including one U.S. citizen, STATE OF EMERGENCY DECLARED
Police/Military Activity
- Ecuador accused of war crime in case of missing Peruvian civilian during Cenepa conflict
- Peru: Investigation into alleged group of police carrying out illegal killings
- Colombia, Farc to sign peace deal
- Cusco Peru: Two women dressed in traditional costumes rob tourists (video)
- President Maduro threatens what will happen if there is coup attempt in Venezuelaey child's play compared to similare event in Venezuela
Politics
- Colombia, Farc to sign peace deal
- Venezuela: Govt. will fire civil servants for signing recall petition for Maduro
- Ecuador criticizes British Security for intrusion attempt at embassy in London
- Ecuador: President Correa merges state owned media into one group
- Ecuador: Teachers Union Calls For Nationwide Protests August 25, 2016
Puerto Rico
- Puerto Rico: Pension Plan Changes causes feeling of insecurity
- Tourist from Minnesota dies while snorkeling in Puerto Rico
- Countries in Caribbean examine decriminalization and legalization of marijuana
- Arrest made in Bomb Threat for Jetblue Plane in Puerto Rico
- Ponce, Puerto Rico: Authorities Detain Two Dominicans, One Venezuelan, Seize 682 Kilos of Cocaine
Religion
Shining Path
- Ayacucho Peru: Shining Path painted symbols showing up in historic city center
- Peru: 24 detained, suspected of ties with Shining Path
- Peru: Sendero Rojo maintains 100 bases throughout VRAEM
- Peruvian Military Destroys Clandestine Airstrip in the Jungle
- Cusco Peru: Shining Path may increase kidnappings after rainy season, Hunt Oil possible target
Sinaloa
- Ciudad Juarez, Mexico: Authorities Capture Sinaloa Cell Leader
- Cali, Colombia: 12 Properties with Ties to Sinaloa Cartel Seized by Authorities
- Nuevo Laredo, Mexico: Capture of Z-40 Could Lead the Sinaloa Cartel to Seek Border Hegemony
- Ecuador: Drugs Seized have Ties to Mexico via Sinaloa Cartel
- Three Asian criminal organizations providing Sinaloa Cartel precursor chemicals
Social Issues
- Denmark Development Relations with Latin America
- Latin America: Levels of Inequality and Violence
- So far in 2016, 26,000 unaccompanied children apprehended at US-Mexican border
- Chile: Massive Protests atainst privatized pension plan
- Ecuador: New Treaty to help visually impaired with exceptions to copyrighted material
South America
- Expert's view on Iran's export revolution to Latin America
- U.N. South America economy to contract 0.8 percent, Central America to expand
- Amapá, Brazil: National Event Addresses Crime and Border Security Concerns
- Despite IACHR Ruling, Ecuador fails to apologize to Sarayaku Indians
- Brazil: International Drug Traffickers Detained After Federal Police Operation
Spanish School Directory
Suriname
- Suriname/U.S.: Son of President pleads guilty to charges sought to offer base for Hezbollah
- Suriname: President's son charged in U.S. for attempting to aid Hezbollah
- Guyana: Nigerian arrested, convicted of entering country illegally from Suriname
- Suriname, China hold discussions on bilateral ties
- Brazil assisting Suriname in fight against transnational crime, opens up lines of credit
TRAVEL
- Zika Alert for Central and South America
- Costa Rica to shutter both its zoos, release animals in ten years
- Mexico: One expat's thoughts on how life abroad is impacting her daughter's life
- Miami International International Airport South Terminal Evacuated, suspicious package
- Cozumel Mexico: Tourist robbed of $600 in bag snatching, thief gets away
Trinidad & Tobago
United States
- So far in 2016, 26,000 unaccompanied children apprehended at US-Mexican border
- A piece of Ecuador Culture exported to Harlem New York, ECUAVOLEY
- Argentina: Declassified files show Kissinger jeopardized efforts to stop mass killings
- Little known involvement of the U.S. in Ecuador after border war with Peru
- US Invasions in Latin America and the Caribbean, look from telesurtv.net
Uruguay
- Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil, Uruguay: Flooding causes evacuation of over 100,000 people
- Six Prisoners in Guantanamo to be resettled in Uruguay
- Uruguay enlisting regristration of marijuana clubs
- Uruguay: Gang of drug traffickers detained with thousands of dollars, weapons, drugs
- First Group o Syrian refugees arrive in Uruguay
Venezuela
- Venezuela Army Detains Journalists
- Venezuela: Govt. will fire civil servants for signing recall petition for Maduro
- President Maduro threatens what will happen if there is coup attempt in Venezuelaey child's play compared to similare event in Venezuela
- Cuba: Nicholas Maduro President of Venezuela in Cuba with wife for Castro's birthday
- 39,000 Venezuelans in Ecuador in attempt to escape crisis in Venezuela
Venezuela Conflict 2014
- Venezuela to close border with Colombia to combat smuggling
- Ojeda Venezuela Military Action Against Citizens (Video)
- Táchira Venezuela: Life out of Control (Video)
- Venezuela: People's Guard Disrespects Elderly (PHOTO)
- Tachira Venezuela moves paratroopers in on reports of paramilitary missions from Colombia
Weather/Climate
- Colombia: July 2016 hottest month since 1880
- Mexico City: POLLUTION ALERT
- In search of colonial El Niño events and a brief history of meteorology in Ecuador
- Ecuador: Waves leave damage in coastal areas of Esmeraldas and Manabi
- Latin American Govts need to adapt to extreme weather events such as El Niño
Z1test
- Guatemala will be declared in "nutritional risk" next week
- Guayaquil, Husband allegedly kills x-wife with machete in front of their children
- Colombia, 15 human traffickers detained, bringing undocumented across Ecuador border
- Montevideo Uruguay, 1,600 people living on the streets
- TRANSLATINA, trailer from documentary about transvestites (graphic)
Zetas
- Nuevo Laredo, Mexico: Capture of Z-40 Could Lead the Sinaloa Cartel to Seek Border Hegemony
- Nuevo Laredo, Mexico: Navy Captures Los Zetas Leader, Z-40
- Guatemalan Detained with Ties to Los Zetas
- Colombia: authorties seizes 4 tons cocaine headed to Los Zetas in Mexico
- MS-13 merging fources with Los Zetas
Zika Virus
- Ecuador: Manabi Province reporting highest number of Zika, Dengue cases
- Zika Virus Reignites Abortion Debate in Brazil
- First Case of Zika contracted in U.S. sexually transmitted
- Ecuador deploys 700 troops to combat Zika virus
- Colombia: More than 2,000 pregnant women infected with Zika Virus
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