Peru and Chile’s presidents made use of their time in Asia to carve out trade deals on APEC’s sidelines. Lima closed a deal with South Korea and concluded negotiations with Japan while Chile inked a pact with Malaysia and announced it would start negotiations with Thailand.

The competition to serve as Peru's next head of state intensified with former President Alejandro Toledo and ex-Finance Minister Mercedes Aráoz announcing their candidacies. They join an already tight race for the April 2011 election.

Last week’s announcement that Paraguay could contain the world’s biggest titanium reserves may bring a mining boom to the country and attract Chinese investment.

A dispute over a piece of land in the San Juan River delta has ramped up tensions between Costa Rica and Nicaragua. AS/COA Online takes a look at the roots of the Central American row.

As Haiti prepares to weather tropical storm Tomas, its escalating cholera outbreak has led the president to urge postponement of the November 28 elections. Yet, despite the myriad difficulties confronting Haitian politics, many view a delay as unnecessary.

Brazil elected its first female president on October 31, when voters chose Dilma Rousseff—and continuity—over ex-Governor of São Paulo José Serra.

It is with great sadness that Americas Society and Council of the Americas share news that former President Néstor Kirchner, who governed Argentina from 2003 to 2007, died unexpectedly of a heart attack on the morning of October 27, 2010.