Hugo Chavez, who is seeking to be re-elected as a president of Venezuela in October, has said last week that he prays constantly to God to "allow him finish his mission on earth."
Olympian Erick Barrondo made Guatemala proud after winning a silver medal in the 20-kilometer walk at the 2012 London Olympics last week; the first medal for that country in the history of the Games.
The Supreme Court's decision this week to uphold Arizona's immigration law has led some legal groups to warn the decision could result in racial profiling. The law allows police to stop and check the immigration status of anyone they suspect to be in the country illegally.
According to a recent poll nearly two thirds of U.S. voters support the executive order that President Barack Obama gave last week to give an opportunity to illegal young immigrants to remain in the United States and obtain legal status.
Gangs and drug trafficking groups are getting stronger in Latin America according to recent reports. The worrying trend has been blamed on a number of factors that are allowing the groups to expand and become more bold; a weak and flawed law enforcement, overcrowded jails, and poverty within the general population.
Authorities in Santa Clara have announced that they now believe 15-year-old teenager Sierra LaMar was murdered, and have arrested the principal suspect in the case.
Sergio Schoklender, the longtime operations chief of the human rights group Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo (Madres de la Plaza de Mayo), has been formally charged and jailed for criminal conspiracy and the embezzlement of more than $156 million from the Argentinean government.
Journalists have taken to the streets of Mexico City to protest the recent wave of murders against press representatives by organized crime syndicates, and to call on the government to do more to bring them to justice.
The number of Mexican immigrants entering the United States over the five year period between 2005 and 2010 is equal to the number leaving the country returning home, an analysis by Pew Hispanic Center has claimed.
President Barack Obama will be attending the Summit of the Americas in Colombia this weekend, while looking to increase his support from the Latino community in the United States.
