Latin America
A new report reveals that more Latin Americans are now converting to Protestanism from being Catholics. This despite the Catholic Church having an Argentinian pope for the first time since February last year.
Literary genius Gabriel García Márquez has passed on Thursday at the age of 87.
Owing to the lack of public safety, the United Nations declared Latin America to be the most insecure region in the world.
Planes using Venezuelan airspace to smuggle drugs will be shot down, according to the Air Interception Law, warned the President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, on Wednesday, October 2 in a speech broadcast through the country's television.
Venezuela's President, Nicolás Maduro, ordered the removal of three American officials accused of promoting economic and electrical sabotage in Venezuela.
Uruguayan writer, Eduardo Galeano, was decorated on Wednesday, Sept. 11, with the Order of Simón Rodríguez, an award created by the government of Venezuela to acknowledge the work of national and foreign social activists in intellectual, cultural, charity, education or historical fields.
The Amazing Race Latin America will begin Sept. 20, with eleven teams participating and the race broadcast by the Discovery Channel
Laura Chinchilla Miranda was elected in 2010 as the first female president of Costa Rica. The socially conservative president has defended her political views in the face of mounting criticism.
Deaths caused by the dengue mosquito have risen in Honduras, according to information shared by El Nuevo Herald, just this past Wednesday, September 4 officials reported the death of four people.
Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder of Facebook and CEO of the social media giant, wants more people to be on the internet. In fact, he wants to help about 5 billion people in developing countries to get in on the internet economy (which of course, includes Facebook).
Mozilla, the company behind the Firefox web browser and now Firefox OS for smartphones, announced on Thursday that it was launching its smartphones in two South American countries, with more to follow. In a market dominated by two major operating systems, the Latin American launch will be an important proving grounds for Firefox OS.
One of the most ubiquitous pieces of cell phone hardware, the SIM card, is vulnerable to a hack attack that could put millions of people at risk for theft and being spied on. Hackers could carry out this attack "within two minutes on a standard computer."
Latin American countries that are near the Amazon river might get control of the domain name ".Amazon," over the objections of the world's largest online retailer.
We have entered the age of apps, and Latin America will soon enter the global IT market in a big way. Forrester Research, a technology and market research company released an annual report looking at what and how people spend money on internet technology, globally. Software - specially apps - are the largest category of spending this year.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro confirmed today that his country has received a formal asylum request from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who has been at the transit area of the Moscow airport since June 23.
