Despite the great strides many countries have made, inequalities are still evident across the region. Nowhere is this more evident than in access to health care.

Conservative critics have had a field day criticizing President Barack Obama's trip to Brazil, Chile and El Salvador this week. Besides revealing a troubling -- even offensive -- stereotype and disregard of the region, they are also wrong.

Never has the historical misdirection of America's decades-entrenched foreign policy been seen in such focus as it was this week.

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — In the heart of his mission to Latin America, President Barack Obama tried to get the world to see what he saw. "La...

President Obama, by going to Latin America this past week, you showed the region -- and Latinos here at home -- that we matter. Thank you for doing the right thing.

BRASILIA, Brazil — As American missiles struck Libya, President Barack Obama doggedly promoted his Latin American agenda Saturday, praising Braz...

With a sluggish recovery at home and Latin America increasingly looking to China to diversify economic and political ties, now is the time for the U.S. to show it is a willing partner that takes the region's concerns seriously.

This trip has the potential to show our neighbors that we can build a partnership based on mutual respect that will endure because it is in the best interest of all parties.

Three imports shape US foreign policy towards Latin America: Energy, Migration, Cocaine and the Criminality that too often goes with drugs.

Venezuela has an election for its National Assembly in September, and the campaign has begun in earnest. I am referring to the international campaign....

Latin America took another historic step forward this week with the creation of a new regional organization of 32 Latin American and Caribbean countri...

At the end of October, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton celebrated the unprecedented overturning of a coup through dialogue. That assessment has now proved naïve.

The new US authorities understand that the United States no longer has the means to exert quick control in such countries as Honduras, and that trying to do so could undermine more promising multilateral avenues for achieving US objectives.

While Obama has passed his first test in Latin America, the coup in Honduras, he still must overcome a sad and addled history of U.S. interventionism in the region.

When left-wingers like Honduran President Zelaya try to repeal term limits, they are described as "dictators" yet when right-wingers like Columbia's President Uribe do exactly the same thing, the same people applaud him as "brilliant."

Eric Massa, a freshman Democratic Representative from Corning in the state of New York, has introduced legislation on May 20 that would seek to punish Argentina by, among other things, denying the country access to U.S. capital markets.