Fort Lewis College honors Native students, community members on Indigenous Peoples Day

Event featured campuswide blessing, solidarity walk and words from students Sophomores Melody Jerrellyn Eisenberger, left, of the Kiowa Tribe, and Malachi Laskie of the Chickasaw Tribe joined the solidarity walk Monday during Fort Lewis College's...

Office Hours with Professor Roberto Saba: Emancipation, Imperialism, and Latinidad in Trump’s America

c/o Roberto Saba Roberto Saba is an Associate Professor of American Studies, History, and Latin American Studies at Wesleyan. He is also the author of the book “American Mirror: The United States and Brazil in the Age of Emancipation.” The Argus:...

Ancient Andean hunting traps in Chile revealed by satellite imagery

An archaeologist has used satellite imagery to identify ancient hunting traps in the Andean highlands of northern Chile. Known as chacu, the large traps helped communities drive their prey into deep pits, and may show that hunter-gatherers...

Chile's CPI grows 0.4% in September

Monday, October 13th 2025 - 10:29 UTC Chile is also the wealthiest country in Latin America in net financial assets per capita The Consumer Price Index (CPI) in Chile rose 0.4% in September, matching analyst expectations. This monthly increase...

Peru’s political crisis deepens as election registration deadline looms

LIMA: Peruvian presidential candidates must resign from their current positions six months before the upcoming general elections. They have until December 23 to officially register their candidacy with the national elections jury. General...

The death of Julia Chuñil in Chile: Boric’s war against the Mapuche people

Demonstrators demand "Where is Julia Chuñil?" on May 8, 2025 in Santiago [Photo by Celinea33/Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0]Gabriel Boric, the President of Chile, issued the following statement last week on the disappearance of Julia Chuñil, a 72-year-old...

Korn announces Latin American tour alongside Spiritbox & Seven Hours After Violet

Korn has announced a tour of Latin American for 2026. The trek kicks off May 2 in Bogota, Colombia, and will make stops in Peru, Chile, Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil before concluding May 19 in Mexico City. The bill will also include Spiritbox...

Indigenous voices shape UNESCO’s new 10-year plan for biosphere reserves

The Hangzhou Strategic Action Plan 2026-35, adopted at UNESCO’s 5th World Congress of Biosphere Reserves, in China, sets the global blueprint for conservation, development and research in the 759 reserves. Seven of the plan’s 34 targets directly...

Uniting Policymakers, AI Pioneers, and Enterprises to Build the Intelligence Economy

Record-Breaking Attendance Marks the Pivotal 45th Edition, Featuring 6,800+ Exhibitors, 2,000 Startups, and Tech Delegations from 180 Countries Ministers and Investors from the UAE, Europe, and Asia Discuss the AI Economy, Geopolitics, and Startup...

Is China’s Belt and Road Initiative a Trojan Horse for Economic Dominance?

When China’s massive Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) launched in 2013, I was a great admirer. On paper, it was—and remains—the most ambitious infrastructure project in human history, a modern-day Silk Road stretching from Asia to Europe, Africa and...

Korn announce Latin America tour with Spiritbox and Seven Hours After Violet

Korn have announced a massive return to Latin America next year. Joined by Spiritbox and Seven Hours After Violet, the Bakersfield titans will head to Bogota, Lima, Santiago, Buenos Aires, Asunción, São Paulo and Mexico City between May 2 – 19,...

97% of Chile's forestry exports to U.S. hit by new tariffs

An official with Chile’s Undersecretariat for International Economic Relations said that U.S. tariffs will impact 97.9% of wood and wood-product exports File Photo by Allison Dinner/EPA SANTIAGO, Chile, Oct. 13 (UPI) -- A 10% surcharge will take...

As coral reefs pass tipping point, ocean protection rises up political agenda

Warm-water coral reefs have crossed a tipping point due to global heating and are dying at an accelerated rate due to repeated mass bleaching events, impacting hundreds of millions of people who rely on them for fishing, tourism and protection...

Hectre celebrates its AI-powered orchard and packing solutions' explosive growth in Chile

Technology is out there in the fields, and no one knows that better than Hectre. The AI-powered orchard and packing solutions company flew to Madrid, Spain, to join the global fresh produce industry at Fruit Attraction 2025. At the conference, the...

Can teen soccer star Gilberto Mora break Mexico’s World Cup curse?

Aside from perennial underachiever England, there may not be another soccer nation that is simultaneously as large and promising, yet consistently underwhelming and disappointing as Mexico. With every decade, no matter how tantalizing they appear...

As Bolivia’s Elections Near, Why Socialism Is Out And The Catholic Church Might Be In

The defeat of socialism in the first round of Bolivia's presidential elections on Aug. 17 marked a turning point for the Catholic Church. Bolivia has been governed by the Movement Toward Socialism party, known as MAS in Spanish, since 2006 — a...

Ecuador: Young people undertake mission to reach Indigenous communities

Idente missionaries have been walking alongside students and families in Andean and Amazonian villages for over 21 years, an experience that began as a response to the wounds of local communities and that has become an opportunity for encounter,...

Lemon Raises $20 Million in Series B to Expand Across Latin America 

Investors Bet Big on Latin America’s Crypto Future Lemon’s $20 million Series B funding round reflects rising global confidence in Latin America’s crypto market. The round was led by U.S.-based funds F-Prime and ParaFi, with support from DRW...

Irán y Venezuela: hasta dónde llega la sociedad militar de dos países acorralados

Por Gonzalo Zegarra, CNN en Español Separados por más de 10.000 kilómetros, con culturas que tienen poco en común, Venezuela e Irán afianzaron sus vínculos en el siglo XXI con un eje compartido: dos regímenes autoritarios que se oponen a Estados...

Chile’s Indigenous Rapa Nui Wants Its Stolen Moai Back

About 3,700 kilometers off the Chilean coast, on one of the most remote inhabited islands in the world, stand the moai of Rapa Nui. Moai refers to the large, monolithic stone statues of deified ancestors on Easter Island in Eastern Polynesia....