Poverty in Latin America fell by 2.2 percentage points in 2024 compared to the previous year and now affects 25.5% of the population, the lowest level since comparable data have been available, ECLAC ...

Deaths in the region have doubled in the last five months. In the United States and other Western nations, the toll from COVID-19 is finally beginning to ease, at least in part, because of the rapid ...

Micheline Dahm-Schiltges and her husband, Jacques Dahm, traveled to Peru and Bolivia from their home in Luxembourg 18 years ago because they wanted to experience another culture. But the poverty they ...

In 1968, a group of Latin American bishops gathered at Medellín, Colombia, to challenge the Roman Catholic Church to expand its definition of charity to include the advocacy of social justice for the ...

TO SEE REALITY in the Buenos Aires suburb of San Isidro, consider the drone’s-eye view (pictured). A razor-straight line divides lush gardens and smooth clay tennis courts from a mess of corrugated ...

In Latin America, socialism’s merits have “failed to deliver, and in doing so, has harmed the quality of democracy,” Abdala said. U.S. spending has increased significantly over the past century, and ...

Pope Francis, influenced by the martyrs of the Latin American church, prioritized the needs of the poor and marginalized. In 1968, a group of Latin American bishops gathered at Medellín, Colombia, to ...