The two devastating large-scale earthquakes that rattled Ecuador’s coast over this past week and left villages in ruins were the deadliest the country experienced since 1987. The Andean nation was initially struck by a 7.8-magnitude...

This post is adapted from Partners of the Americas’ Agriculture and Food Security blog. It is estimated that throughout the 20th century, the Dominican Republic lost 75 to 85 percent of its forest coverage from deforestation. While deforestation...

ESPN has teamed up with A Ganar, love.fútbol and, and local community partners INATOS and UASI, to build two new multifunctional sport courts in the communities of Dos Macacos in Rio De Janeiro and La Cava in Buenos Aires,...

 “I have been making salsa since I was 6 years old, when my task for dinnertime was to peel roasted chilies,” Carmen Pacheco-Borden of Boulder, Colo said. Pacheco-Borden’s family immigrated to the United States from Mexico when...

  It was in 1964, during a time of heightened tensions between the U.S. and Cuba, that Partners of the Americas (Partners) was born.  As part of President Kennedy’s Alliance for Progress, local community organizations...

In an effort to change labor paradigms in the country, Paraguay’s Ministry of Labor has established Feb. 26 as “National Formal Labor Day.”  The Ministry’s goal is to ensure that workers’ rights are met, and...