All Latin America Monitor

El Salvador and Canadian mining firm Pacific Rim are in a high-profile arbitration over permitting. What does the company's sale to an Australian firm mean for the Salvadoran mining sector?

Brazil is the world’s top exporter of soy and poultry, much of it headed to China to feed its growing middle class. But some say Brazil is ignoring hunger at home.

Brazil may have wanted Venezuela in the South American trade bloc to protect its companies. But will it work?

Teen motherhood is something that perpetuates poverty and puts girls' health and life at risk, according to a new UN Population Fund report released today.

After four years of legal turmoil, the Supreme Court ruled that a media law aimed at reining in huge media players was constitutional.

The NBA is working to extend its reach into Mexico and its push couldn't have come at a better time. The national soccer team is suffering and a barefoot basketball victory has won many hearts.

Article 33 of the Mexican Constitution permits the president to discretionally expel anyone deemed non grata, but a recent proposal before the Senate could soften the law.

At 16, Nelson de Witt discovered he was taken and put up for adoption after his revolutionary mother was killed in a raid. There are an estimated 800 children like him from El Salvador's civil war.

The global slavery index considers Haitian children sent to live with wealthier families and serve as household servants – a common practice – modern-day slaves. 

Mexico is still in the running to qualify for the World Cup thanks to a last-minute goal made by the US against Panama. But did Mexico want US ‘saving?’

The majority of Venezuelans see citizen security as an issue outside the scope of a president's control, with many blaming broken families over poor policing for high crime.

Some fans of Mexico's 'El Tri' soccer team think losing to Panama and possibly missing the World Cup could be good for the team – and the country.

Cholera erupted in Haiti nine months after the 2010 earthquake and rights groups say UN peacekeepers are to blame. Will a lawsuit force the UN to compensate victims?

In just over two years, Attorney General Paz y Paz’s office has cut down impunity by more than 25 percent, giving the public ministry clout to face down attempts to quash prosecution efforts.

Almost eight years after Buenos Aires laid out mandatory trash reduction goals, the government is finally starting a recycling program.

President Kirchner's doctors ordered her to take a month off of work, weeks after an August head injury. The opposition is asking why now?

A new documentary speaks with some of the cast from the blockbuster film 'City of God,' and finds outcomes that are both uplifting and bitter.

An $8.1 billion investment in Mexico by a Brazilian company is good news for both countries – and a twist in the ongoing Brazil vs. Mexico economic debate.

American fast-food chains are appearing on every street corner in El Salvador, but globalization isn't the main culprit.

US hopes that the post-Chávez era might usher in better US-Venezuelan ties were dashed with President Maduro's announcement that he was expelling three 'Yankee' diplomats.