Panama Supreme Court justice accuses former president Martinelli in illegal spying scandal
A Panamanian Supreme Court justice investigating wiretapping allegations against former President Ricardo Martinelli has found sufficient evidence to link the ex-head of state to the purported eavesdropping on some 150…
Death toll from Guatemala mudslide rises to 263
Emergency management authorities in Guatemala announced Saturday that 263 people have now been confirmed killed in the mudslide that buried a small settlement near the capital last Oct. 1.…
Andres Oppenheimer: The fall of Brazil, Argentina and Venezuela
The Trans-Pacific trade agreement signed last week between the United States and 11 other Pacific Rim countries will be another nail in the coffin of the populist governments of Brazil,…
This is how abusive priests are able to relocate abroad to Latin America
A recent GlobalPost investigation found that Catholic priests accused of sexually abusing children in the United States and Europe were able to escape accountability by transferring to South America, where…
Colombia high court orders church to pay damages for priestly sex abuse
The Catholic Church has lost its first civil case in Colombia for priestly sex abuse with a ruling by the Supreme Court establishing that the institution cannot separate itself from…
Andres Oppenheimer: Latin America’s top problem is corruption
When Peruvian-born Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa told me in a public interview in front of 300 newspaper editors last weekend that "corruption is the biggest threat to Latin…
U.S. charges Honduran sports mogul with laundering drug money
U.S. prosecutors on Wednesday charged Honduran sports mogul and former Cabinet minister Yankel Rosenthal with laundering money obtained from drug trafficking.…
Death toll in Guatemala City mudslide continues to rise
The death toll following a mudslide in Guatemala City continued to rise, reaching 166 Tuesday as rescuers continued to recover bodies from the muck, the authorities said.…
