Joshua Goodman Associated Press

July 18, 2016 | Daily Business Review

President Nicolas Maduro's announcement last week that the military will lead the battle against widespread food shortages overlooks one key fact: The armed forces have played a big role in Venezuela's economic mess.

By Jorge Rueda and Joshua Goodman, Associated Press

10 minute read

July 13, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Venezuela's military is getting a major promotion as the socialist-run country struggles to combat severe shortages and stave off food riots.

By Fabiola Sanchez and Joshua Goodman, Associated Press

6 minute read

July 12, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Tens of thousands of Venezuelans streamed across bridges into Colombia over the weekend after Venezuela briefly lifted a year-old border closure to allow people to buy food and medicine.

By Joshua Goodman, Associated Press

7 minute read

June 23, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Colombia moved closer than ever to ending a half-century of bloodshed when its president joined leftist rebels in celebrating a cease-fire and disarmament agreement at a dignitary-studded signing ceremony in Cuba.

By Mike Weissenstein and Joshua Goodman, Associated Press

8 minute read

April 14, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Comedians in Peru ridicule his American accent and his long-standing ties to Wall Street anger some in an impoverished nation increasingly hostile toward foreign mining companies.

By Franklin Briceno and Joshua Goodman, Associated Press

10 minute read

April 06, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Panamanians have long shrugged off their country's checkered reputation as a financial haven for drug lords, tax dodgers and corrupt oligarchs. If they're crooks, they've learned from the world's wealthy nations, they like to joke.

By Juan Zamorano and Joshua Goodman Associated Press

12 minute read

February 05, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Brazil is not sharing enough samples and disease data to let researchers determine whether the Zika virus is, as feared, linked to the increased number of babies born with abnormally small heads in the South American country, U.N. and U.S. health officials say.

By Maria Cheng, Raphael Satter and Joshua Goodman, Associated Press

5 minute read

February 02, 2016 | Daily Business Review

As negotiations to end Colombia's half-century conflict close in on a final deal, attention is turning to the fate of an aging bank manager turned leftist rebel who is being held at a U.S. maximum security prison alongside notorious terrorists.

By Joshua Goodman, Associated Press

5 minute read