"Tim Stelloh"

Mexicans are slimming down.

Fed up with delays, a Canadian company is threatening to sue El Salvador for denying a mining permit.

With construction of the US-Mexico border wall in Eagle Pass, Texas (500 out of 670 miles is complete), several landowners are suing the federal government.

Latin Americans know the region won't be Barack Obama's top priority.

In the aftermath of Nicaragua's hotly disputed municipal elections last November, President Daniel Ortega's problems have ballooned.

Mauricio Funes has given up his career as a TV journalist in a bid to become president of El Salvador.