Panama's free trade zone -- the biggest in Latin America -- is in crisis in large part because of economic woes sapping major export customers Venezuela and Colombia, Commerce Minister Augusto Arosemena said Wednesday.
Luis Almagro has been secretary general of an institution generally regarded as moribund: the Organization of American States. Thanks to him, it is rapidly becoming relevant again.
Robbers shot dead Ricardo Durán Trujillo, a prominent ally of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, near Durán's home in Caracas on Tuesday night, prosecutors said.
The emergency decree gives Venezuelan authorities special temporary powers to boost production and ensure access to key goods, including taking command of companies' resources, and to impose currency controls.
As Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro prepares to give the annual State of the Nation address, the country is facing one of the world's most painful, and predictable, economic collapses.
A new study found that nations whose inhabitants boast a certain gene variant had much higher self-reported happiness levels. Mexico is the prime example.
Venezuela's opposition moved Wednesday to try to break the country's political deadlock by removing from the state legislature three of its deputies rejected by the government.
Venezuela sank deeper into a messy political crisis Tuesday as the opposition-controlled National Assembly suspended its session after the Supreme Court declared it null and void.
