Europa World Plus offers the most comprehensive annual coverage of the world’s countries, regions, and organizations through narrative and statistical reports. The government, economics, and general living conditions of each area are presented. A couple of the most useful features are the General Survey articles and Recent Events presentations that appear for every world region.
As the example shows, select South America, Central America and the Carribean.
This will open the regional page for a look at seven articles in the General Survey all pertaining to different vital topics. 
For example, take a look at the article on Gender and Development in 21st Latin America. Similar rich and up-to-date country and regional information is available throughout Europa World Plus.
This article draws on Macaulay, F. Gender Politics in Brazil and Chile . Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Reproduced here with the kind permission of Palgrave Macmillan.
Europa World Plus is available from the Library’s All Databases page or the Country Information page.
Article courtesy of Greffitti, the Research Assistance and Reference Blog.