In Latin America, only 23% of the roads are paved and it’s home to one of the least extensive rail networks in the world.

Latin America is facing an escalating education crisis as school dropout rates continue to climb, affecting not only the region's poorest countries but also those with historically strong public ...

Haiti, long the poorest nation in the Latin America and the Caribbean, has been in a situation of political and social unrest since 2018 after shortages of basic goods prompted mass anti-government ...

Latin America will not put up with Trump’s new Monroe Doctrine ... who lifted 1.6 million Colombians out of poverty through substantial investment in social programs in 2023.

In 1977, the Jesuit Rutilio Grande, a parish priest from El Salvador, spoke out against the oppression of the poor and was machine-gunned to death as he drove through a sugar cane field on his way ...

The percentage of the population below the poverty line fell from 46 percent in 2000 to 29 percent in 2013. ... The COVID-19 pandemic, which hit Latin America’s economies harder than those of any ...

Latin America’s top human rights court has issued a groundbreaking advisory opinion linking states’ human rights obligations ...

Latin America had had a very good week, it appeared. ... but to the extent that Pope Francis directly engaged himself in Latin American governance, it has had poor results.