Latin America

A new PBS documentary exposes the tasing and beating death of a Mexican immigrant, Anastasio Hernandez-Rojas, by U.S. border agents in California and has renewed scrutiny of what critics call a culture of impunity.

Two years since the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history, we look at its impact on the Gulf of Mexico’s residents and wildlife even as no BP officials have faced criminal prosecution for the disaster. Eleven workers died when the Deepwater Horizon well exploded, and almost five million barrels of crude oil leaked into the ocean.

The Welcome to Palestine Campaign concluded in Bethlehem, and the Palestinian Prime Minister in Gaza called on Arab countries to sever relations with Israel, these stories and more, coming up, stay tuned.

The Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Laura Poitras discusses how she has been repeatedly detained and questioned by federal agents whenever she enters the United States.

Journalist Anand Gopal has just returned from Syria, where he interviewed survivors of last week’s bloody battle for the town of Taftanaz in northern Syria. Reports say government forces continue to attack rebel strongholds in Homs, Hama and other cities in violation of a U.N.-backed ceasefire that took effect last week.

After using a homophobic adjective against an opposition candidate, Venezuela Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro reiterated on Tuesday that the national government and he himself personally do in fact respect sexual diversity in the country.

While the presidents of Guatemala, Colombia, Costa Rica and El Salvador have voiced support for an end to the drug war, President Obama rejected their calls for drug legalization during high-level talks at the Summit of the Americas in Colombia.

Historian Greg Grandin analyzes the U.S.-Colombia “free trade” deal and the deepening split between much of Latin America and Washington following the Summit of the Americas in Colombia.