Latin America News

Argentine protesters clashed with police outside the country’s Congress on Wednesday, after lower house lawmakers narrowly upheld a veto of a planned hike to pensions by right-wing President Javier Milei. […]

By Daniela Desantis and Lucinda Elliott South America’s Paraguay River, a key thoroughfare for grains, has hit a record low in Paraguay’s capital Asuncion, with water levels depleted by a […]

Former Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate Edmundo González has fled into exile after being granted asylum in Spain, delivering a major blow to millions who placed their hopes in his upstart […]

By Brett Wilkins A Brazilian judge on Thursday ordered two slaughterhouses and three ranchers to pay $764,000 in combined penalties for trading cattle raised in a protected area of the […]

Protests by truckers in Colombia, who are angry at an increase in diesel prices, have cut off the country’s biggest cities and are threatening fuel supplies, though the government insists […]

By Regina Garcia Cano and Jorge Rueda A Venezuelan judge on Monday issued an arrest warrant for the opposition’s former presidential candidate Edmundo González as part of a criminal investigation […]

By Gabriela Sa Pessoa and Mauricio Savarese Brazil started blocking Elon Musk’s social media platform X early Saturday, making it largely inaccessible on both the web and through its mobile […]

By Christopher Newton With access to artificial intelligence increasing rapidly, some of Latin America’s organized crime groups have begun wielding it for criminal gain. Though artificial intelligence (AI) has long […]

By Mat DiSalvo El Salvador President Nayib Bukele has been an outspoken in his advocacy for Bitcoin. While he has long battled with critics, he has now admitted that his […]

By Laura Geggel A basketball-player-size, two-faced wooden idol that allegedly escaped destruction by the Spanish conquistadors is real — but it may not be quite what people suspected. The statue […]

Colombia’s leftist government on Tuesday blasted Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega’s expulsion of hundreds of prominent critics earlier this month and called for international monitoring and a criminal inquiry, according to […]

Nicaragua’s government closed another 151 nongovernmental organizations Thursday, among them some of the most important trade organizations, including the American Chamber of Commerce, coming just days after the government shuttered […]

By Julie Turkewitz and Genevieve Glatsky Venezuela’s highest court ruled on Thursday that the country’s authoritarian leader, Nicolás Maduro, won the July 28 presidential election, despite overwhelming evidence that Mr. […]

By Mitra Taj; Photos by Marco Garro After weeks of living in jungle tents, the handful of Mennonite families trying to make a new home deep in the Peruvian Amazon […]

By Fernando Heller Venezuela could enter a “condition of chaos” if the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro, insists on claiming that he won the 28 July national election without being able […]

By Marco Cacciati Latin America and the Caribbean are facing a ‘low economic growth trap’ that threatens to stall progress across the region, according to a new report from the United […]

Prosecutors in Argentina have launched an investigation into former President Alberto Fernández, who is accused of causing serious injuries to his ex-wife. Last week, former first lady Fabiola Yáñez, 43, […]

More than two weeks after Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro claimed reelection victory, the US and other Western countries are showing little sign of swift tough action over what many of […]