SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — Conservative populist Laura Fernández won Costa Rica’s presidency, promising to continue the ...

Candidate Laura Fernández won a resounding victory, promising to continue the aggressive reorienting of the Central American ...

On Jan. 30, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced in Madrid, at a conference on women leading the UN, that his ...

Chile has officially backed the candidacy of its former president Michelle Bachelet to become the UN ‘s first female secretary-general, with backing from Mexico and Brazil.

Former Chilean president also served as UN high commissioner for human rights ...

Chile's former president Michelle Bachelet has been formally registered as a candidate to head the United Nations, the ...

Chile has officially backed the candidacy of its former president Michelle Bachelet to become the UN's first female secretary ...

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Costa Ricans head into Sunday’s elections with polls indicating that a right-wing populist is the clear frontrunner, amid a ...

Nasry Asfura was endorsed by President Trump in a contentious election. His opponent, Salvador Nasralla, said he would not accept the results. By Annie Correal and Jeff Ernst Annie Correal and Jeff ...

Steve Forbes celebrates the shift to pro-democracy and pro-free market leaders in Latin America but warns that the IMF’s routine economic prescriptions are toxic to this positive geopolitical shift.

This article is republished from The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Andra B. Chastain is an Associate Professor of History at ...