This feisty UN agency just put Guatemala’s president in jail for corruption
Guatemalans took to the streets on Thursday, armed with flags, fireworks and vuvuzelas. So spirited was the celebration that it might have seemed this small Central American country had won…
Does the ‘Devil’s Breath’ drug really exist?
The "Devil's Breath" may sound like a comic book character or something you only get after a night of heavy drinking, but what it actually refers to is perhaps even…
People-power and the ‘Guatemalan Spring’
The audacious theft of millions of dollars of public money by politicians and businessmen while poor patients died in public hospitals has triggered an unprecedented collective political awakening among Guatemala's…
Guatemala president resigns after warrant issued for his arrest
Guatemalan President Otto Perez has resigned, his spokesman said after Congress stripped the leader of immunity over corruption allegations and a warrant was issued for his arrest.…
China lending Venezuela $5 billion to produce more oil
China will lend Venezuela’s government $5 billion to help the South American country produce more oil. Venezuela is seeking to ramp up production in coming months to offset steep losses…
After losing immunity, Guatemalan president seeks to avoid arrest “spectacle”
A day after lawmakers lifted his immunity from prosecution, Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina placed himself at the disposition of the judicial system to try and avoid the "spectacle" his…
El Salvador gang violence reaches highest level in decades
Violence in El Salvador has reached its highest levels in decades, hearkening back to the bloodshed seen during the country’s brutal civil war in the 1980s…
Colombia to stop spraying coca farms with glyphosate
On April 28, 2011, Victor Burgos went out after lunch to pick the corns of pepper plants growing on his farm in Putumayo, Colombia, when a plane flew overhead and…
