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 ...

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 ...

Venezuela holds the most oil reserves in the world but suffers from economic crisis and political setbacks due to mismanagement, subsidies, and over-dependence on oil exports.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A plurality of the Catholic Church is in Latin America, at roughly 40% of the global Catholic population. The election of the Argentinian Pope Francis in 2013 brought fresh hope for a new flourishing ...

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 ...