Early on in their accaimed TV series adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude" Netflix and Bogota-based producer Dynamo ("Narcos") set out to find Macondo. First, writers,
By Sarah Morland (Reuters) -Colombian President Gustavo Petro arrived in Haiti's southeastern city of Jacmel on Wednesday afternoon in a rare visit by a foreign head of state to the Caribbean nation,
The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies’ Cogut Visiting Professor Camilo Umaña will give a talk on “Humanizing prisons. Practical lessons from Colombia’s policy making.”
The Andean nation must bring in cargoes with a bigger carbon footprint as its own reserves dwindle and its president refuses to allow new drilling contracts.
Many people in Latin America and the Caribbean live in poverty. Wealth often stays with a few powerful families. Big companies take natural resources but
In the Turks and Caicos, the under-explored South Caicos island is also becoming far more accessible thanks to American Airlines’ new direct flights from Miami, which begin on February 15—the only nonstop service to the island from the United States. Most travelers enter the British Overseas Territory through the more-populated Providenciales.
The phenomenon is expected to last until April, with more humidity in Central America and northern South America, and more droughts in the center and south of the region
Google the most violent region of the world and Latin America will come up. Violence in the region takes many forms and starts young. Data from UNICEF shows nearly two in three children aged 1–14 years in Latin America and the Caribbean face violent discipline at home.
In response to attacks by warring guerrilla factions that have killed dozens of people and displaced tens of
The Colombian border village of Tres Bocas has become a ghost town as residents flee to neighboring Venezuela to escape a new wave of violence in Colombia’s Catatumbo region that has left at least 80 people dead and displaced thousands.
With support from UTA Libraries, Yanina Blanco’s exhibits on the history of Cartagena, Colombia, are now accessible worldwide