BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – Jorge Lischetti applied to purchase dollars from the government the day Argentina eased controls. He stashed the $300 he was allowed to buy in January in his Buenos Aires home and did the same on the first day of February.
SÃO PAULO, Brazil – When Fabio Miarelli opened coffee cherries at his 220-acre farm in the Sul de Minas region to examine how the beans inside were developing, he found wilted, rubbery granules half the normal size.
I arrived nearly two hours early to the small campus of Veritas University to meet Luis Chaves. Although I didn't want to rush him, I decided to text him. Take your time, but I’m available when you’re ready. Chaves replied back almost immediately. He was on his way.
Amanda García Soto, a toddler from Heredia, had a strong reaction to news about last Sunday's presidential elections. Not because she cared about who won the race. But because her parents informed her that Laura Chinchilla's term was coming to a close.
In the lead up to national elections here and following news that the United States Federal Reserve would raise pull back economic stimulus, the U.S. dollar reached its highest point against the Costa Rican colón, the national currency, since November 2010.
In the central Pacific town of Parrita, locals look forward to the festival all year long. In a canton filled with ranches and palm oil plantations, the festival celebrates all things agriculture, which is the region’s primary industry. This year's festivities began Thursday and continue through Feb. 16.
I first met Colin “ProbCause” Grimm six years ago when he was working as a delivery driver at the Morseland, a now-defunct North Side Chicago club. I don’t think he was even legally old enough to drink.
PANAMA CITY – An international consortium at loggerheads with Panama over work to expand the Panama Canal has presented a proposal to end a dispute over a $1.6 billion cost overrun, the group said late Thursday.
TAIPEI, Taiwan – Complaints about hotels and venues at the Winter Olympics in Russia are proliferating to the point where a Twitter account hosting them now has more followers than the official games feed.
