The holiday marking the continent's discovery - "Columbus Day" to most Americans and "Día de la Raza" in many Spanish-speaking nations - is increasingly being celebrated as "Indigenous Peoples Day" by jurisdictions across the United States.
Cricket Wireless will add calling options to nine new Latin America countries to their pre-paid wireless plans. For a small fee, customers can add minutes to call these countries.
A report released by the nongovernmental watchdog group Freedom House indicates that government harassment of reporters is on the rise in many Latin American countries.
Faced with economic uncertainty in Europe, a new study released by the International organization for Migration, finds that a great number of Europeans are resettling to Latin America and the Caribbean.
During his visit to Bolivia, Pope Francis on Thursday apologized for the "many grave sins" committed against native peoples of Latin America during colonial times.
Felix Verdejo scored an impressive win in his last fight. The young Puerto Rican fighter has a very bright future ahead of him as he enters the prime of his promising career.
Baseball is the most popular sport in Cuba today, however many younger fans are beginning to switch their favorite sport to soccer instead. Many factors are included to the increasing popularity of soccer in Cuba.
Music-streaming service Spotify is eyeing an expansion into Latin American markets, and the way to do that, the company says, is by integrating itself into consumers' phone contracts.
The ethnic and racial make up of the U.S. may start experiencing another change soon as immigration from Asia, particularly China, starts outpacing Mexican and Latin American immigration.
As the Summit of the Americas approaches this week, Latin American leaders have by and large kept silent about charges of human rights abuses in Venezuela made by the United States.
This year’s Latin American Easter rituals are being dutifully observed in some serious ways. Easter is not really ever about bunnies and chocolate eggs in Latin America.
Speaking at the meeting of the boards of governors of the Inter-American Development Bank held in South Korea, Jose Juan Ruiz, the Chief Economist and Manager of the Research Department of the IDB, said that this year the "Short-term growth in Latin America is going to be poor. We're going to have a growth rate below 2 percent."
