Americas (Latin America & Caribbean)

10+ hour, 39+ min ago   (1641+ words) A Nobel laureate, an Oscar winner, Olympic champions and painted minibuses: the people and places that define Kenya abroad. Kenya culture reaches far beyond the safari image, from a Nobel Peace Prize laureate to an Oscar winner and Olympic champions....

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (1763+ words) Argentina history is a story of booms and busts, coups and elections, repeated across two centuries. That pattern still drives the peso, the bond market and the 2027 election. For a US reader, it explains why Washington, the IMF and Wall…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (1386+ words) The Ghana population stood at 30.8 million at the 2021 census and is projected at about 34.4 million in 2026. It is young, increasingly urban and made up of nine broad ethnic families that mostly live side by side without open conflict. For US…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (1705+ words) Mexico famous people run from the priest who started the independence war in 1810 to the film-maker who won best picture in 2018. Many are already familiar to Americans from Dodger Stadium, the Oscars, the Grammys and Las Vegas fight nights. This…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (920+ words) Guatemala’s disaster agency has counted 116 Villa Hermosa homes with severe damage after the Pinula River tore away its own banks in San Miguel Petapa, a suburb of Guatemala City. Another 499 houses are at risk, and 2,763 people live in danger, Conred…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (1106+ words) For visitors from the United States, this is mainly a question of smoke, closed rural roads and trekking routes near burning hillsides. For the rural families who live there, it is a question of lost crops, livestock and homes. The…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (1063+ words) The official balance, published on Saturday 10 October and reported by El Colombiano, counts 596 people helped or being registered. Telemedellín, the city’s public broadcaster, reported three collapsed homes and six permanent evacuations. No deaths were reported in the balances published on…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (215+ words) By the end of this section, you will be able to: Disembarking from steamboats that brought them up the Congo River, Europeans seized Africans and forced them to carry their numerous possessions inland. At times, several hundred would be conscripted…...

6+ day, 21+ hour ago   (1734+ words) Belize neighbours Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras, and two of those relationships go before the UN’s top court in early 2027. For Americans who dive, retire or invest there, the rulings will fix borders on land and sea. The United States, meanwhile,…...

5+ day, 20+ hour ago   (1714+ words) GUIDES · COSTA RICA Costa Rica culture is easy to meet and harder to explain: a Spanish-speaking, officially Catholic republic with no army, where strangers hear “pura vida”. US residents made 1.6 million arrivals there in 2025. For them, the holidays, the speech…...