The Latin Americanist

* NICARAGUA: President Daniel Ortega easily won a third straight term during an election marred by the lack of international observers and accusations of fraud by the opposition. * PUERTO RICO:...

http://ourlatinamerica.blogspot.com/2016/11/daily-headlines-november-7-2016.html

* VENEZUELA: A fragile truce between the Venezuelan government and opposition may be in jeopardy after President Nicolas Maduro rejected what he called “ultimatums” such as early elections. ...

http://ourlatinamerica.blogspot.com/2016/11/daily-headlines-november-4-2016.html

* UNITED STATES: The latest Latino Decision tracking poll estimates that as many as 14.7 million Latinos will vote in elections this month, which would represent a 5% jump compared to the turnou...

http://ourlatinamerica.blogspot.com/2016/11/daily-headlines-november-3-2016.html

* MEXICO: Mexico’s “sugar tax” on carbonated beverages enacted in 2013 could prevent as many as 500,000 cases of diabetes and save up to $2.5 billion in ten years, according to a new repor...

http://ourlatinamerica.blogspot.com/2016/11/daily-headlines-november-2-2016.html

* BRAZIL: A study from the Getulio Vargas Foundation public policy think tank concluded that the Brazilian economy will continue to be mired in an economic crisis into 2017. * CUBA: The discrep...

http://ourlatinamerica.blogspot.com/2016/11/daily-headlines-november-1-2016.html

* VENEZUELA: Venezuela’s weakened economy is to blame for lowered output at Cuba's joint oil refinery with PDVSA, while government officials and opposition figures from the south American coun...

http://ourlatinamerica.blogspot.com/2016/10/daily-headlines-october-31-2016.html

* BRAZIL: Brazilian authorities warned that a recent outbreak of prison violence between the PCC and Comando Vermelho criminal groups could spill on to the streets . * PANAMA: The Panamanian gov...

http://ourlatinamerica.blogspot.com/2016/10/daily-headlines-october-28-2016.html

* CUBA: Cuban state media hailed as “a triumph of the heroic resistance of the Cuban people” the United Nations General Assembly’s symbolic yet overwhelming condemnation of the United State...

http://ourlatinamerica.blogspot.com/2016/10/daily-headlines-october-27-2016.html

* BRAZIL: Tributes from the soccer world have poured in for Carlos Alberto, the captain of Brazil's World Cup-winning men’s national team in 1970, who died on Tuesday at the age of 72. * SOU...

http://ourlatinamerica.blogspot.com/2016/10/daily-headlines-october-26-2016.html

* BOLIVIA: A new scientific report found that glaciers in Bolivia have shrunk by 43% from 1986 to 2014 and “glacier recession is leaving lakes that could burst and wash away villages or infras...

http://ourlatinamerica.blogspot.com/2016/10/daily-headlines-october-25-2016.html

* BRAZIL: A new poll found that a plurality of Brazilians back former leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to return to the presidency in the 2018 elections, assuming he does not get jailed over cor...

http://ourlatinamerica.blogspot.com/2016/10/daily-headlines-october-24-2016.html

* BRAZIL: Twenty-one mining executives were charged with homicide in relation to the November 2015 collapse of a Brazilian dam that killed nineteen people and polluted miles of waterways. * LAT...

http://ourlatinamerica.blogspot.com/2016/10/daily-headlines-october-21-2016.html

* LATIN AMERICA: Latin America has become “one of the most urbanized regions of the world” over the past three decades, according to Development Bank of Latin America executive president Enr...

http://ourlatinamerica.blogspot.com/2016/10/daily-headlines-october-20-2016.html

* VENEZUELA: Tensions between the Venezuelan government and political opposition have once again flared up after electoral authorities postponed gubernatorial elections to the middle of next year...

http://ourlatinamerica.blogspot.com/2016/10/daily-headlines-october-19-2016.html

* UNITED STATES: A poll of likely Latino voters conducted last week has respondents giving Hillary Clinton a fifty point cushion over Donald Trump in a four-way race for the United States presid...

http://ourlatinamerica.blogspot.com/2016/10/daily-headlines-october-17-2016.html

* EL SALVADOR: Lawmakers of El Salvador’s ruling political party backs a proposal to ease the total ban on abortion while an opposition legislator countered with a bill to punish anyone involv...

http://ourlatinamerica.blogspot.com/2016/10/daily-headlines-october-13-2016.html

* HAITI: An official report said Hurricane Matthew decimated Haiti’s agricultural sector including the loss of tens of thousands of acres of farmland and more than 350,000 heads of livestock. ...

http://ourlatinamerica.blogspot.com/2016/10/daily-headlines-october-12-2016.html

* LATIN AMERICA: A new report alleges that surveillance laws in twelve Latin American states are outdated and can be easily exploited by authoritarian regimes . * UNITED STATES: The Supreme Cour...

http://ourlatinamerica.blogspot.com/2016/10/daily-headlines-october-11-2016.html

* HAITI: Doctors warned that Haiti could face its second cholera outbreak in recent years following the more than 1000 fatalities and towns still isolated by Hurricane Matthew. * ARGENTINA: An ...

http://ourlatinamerica.blogspot.com/2016/10/daily-headlines-october-10-2016.html

* COLOMBIA: The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos in recognition of “his resolute efforts to bring the country's more than 50-year-long civil war to an en...

http://ourlatinamerica.blogspot.com/2016/10/daily-headlines-october-7-2016.html

* ARGENTINA: “We have 40 years of love to give you," said the brother of the 121st person positively identified by the Abuelas de la Plaza de Mayo as having been stolen and illegally adopted d...

http://ourlatinamerica.blogspot.com/2016/10/daily-headlines-october-6-2016.html

* VENEZUELA: Venezuelan Oil Minister Eulogio Del Pino claimed a deal worked out by members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and non-OPEC states to slash oil production ...

http://ourlatinamerica.blogspot.com/2016/10/daily-headlines-october-5-2016.html

* HONDURAS: The case file focused on the murder of prominent Honduran human rights activist Berta Cáceres was stolen last week , which will likely impede efforts to identify the masterminds behi...

http://ourlatinamerica.blogspot.com/2016/10/daily-headlines-october-4-2016.html

* ARGENTINA: “This is a government that governs for the rich and only responds to corporations and multinationals,” proclaimed the head of a Buenos Aires teachers’ union amid growing social...

http://ourlatinamerica.blogspot.com/2016/10/daily-headlines-october-3-2016.html

* BRAZIL: Children's rights groups urged the International Olympic Committee to compensate minors who they claim were victims of police violence during the Rio Olympics and the security crackdow...

http://ourlatinamerica.blogspot.com/2016/09/daily-headlines-september-30-2016.html