Many of us are idealists at heart. We have our core sets of beliefs and we will unapologetically defend them in arguments with others. Like us, politicians have ideals that they hold dear to their hearts. Unlike us however, a politician occasionally needs to act in ways different from his or her beliefs. This is Read More

- via NPR High in the Andes Mountains, Peruvians have been lining up to see a collection of antiquities that have finally returned home. The objects from the Inca site of Machu Picchu spent the past 100 years at Yale University in Connecticut, where they were at the center of a long-running international custody battle. Read More

- via NY Daily News Argentina’s last dictator was convicted Thursday of more crimes against humanity, this time getting 15 years in prison for setting up a secret torture center inside a hospital during the 1976 military coup.

As long as you are in Samoa this Thursday. In the latest realm of time travel, Samoa has decided to eliminate Friday, December 30 in order to sync up the working week with the two countries it works with the most, New Zealand and Australia. It is a move that reverses the king’s decision in Read More

Caution! Exploding churros. This might have been the caption that could have helped the Chilean daily newspaper La Tercera avoid paying $163,000 to 13 people who sustained injuries recreating a churros recipe published seven years ago.

With New Year’s Eve just a few days away, many of us are gearing up for a celebration. Whether those celebrations are quiet evenings at home watching the ball drop on TV while sipping un taza de chocolate or full-on parrandas under a big glitzy ball with a bunch of other decked out revelers, each Read More

- via BBC News People living in the Comuna 13 district – which clings to a steep hillside – previously had to climb hundreds of steps to get home from the city centre. The escalator is divided into six sections and ascends nearly 384m (1,260ft). The mayor of Medellin says it is the first project Read More

- via Fox News Latino When people think high fashion, Tijuana isn’t a city that comes to mind. For most of its existence, Tijuana has been dismissed as a border town of painted burros, drunken Americans, gun-slinging drug lords and polyester Quinceañera dresses.  

Just when reality television could not possibly get worse, along comes “Cathouse” a  program detailing the lives of women working in a Nevada brothel and the man, “Daddy,” who appears to be the owner of the establishment. Not fodder for the intellectual mind, to be sure.

- via Fox News Latino There are people who eat to live and others who live to eat. If you fall into the latter category, then it’s likely you love to sniff out cuisine that captures the specific flavor of a place when you’re on the road.