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A tray of chocolate eggs with protective face masks are laid out on a tray at the Chocolate Line warehouse of Dominique Persoone in Bruges, Belgium. — AP Photo/Virginia Mayo

January 05, 2023

Chocolate’s complicated cultural history

An Illinois-based professor will be leading research into the cultural history of chocolate and how it turned into the global force it remains today.

At the White House on Friday, President Obama met with El Salvador's President Salvador Sanchez Ceren (from left), Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina and Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez to discuss the border crisis. — (AP)

July 25, 2014

Obama: U.S., Central America Share Responsibility For Influx Of Minors

Loved ones express their grief at the burial of Ramon Romero Ramirez in Chichigalpa, Nicaragua, January 2013. The 36-year-old died of chronic kidney disease after working in the sugar cane fields for 12 years. Ramirez is part of a steady procession o — (Ed Kashi/VII)

April 30, 2014

Mysterious Kidney Disease Slays Farmworkers In Central America

December 08, 2011

Land and Power: The Growing Scandal Surrounding the New Wave of Investments in Land in Uganda

April 01, 2010

Human Rights Trials and Truth Commissions: What the US Can Learn from Latin America

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