Latin America News
By Carlos Valdez Visiting Bolivia became a little easier for certain travelers on Monday, when the South American nation’s first conservative government in nearly 20 years eliminated visa requirements for […]
By Travis Gettys The family of a Colombian fisherman has filed a formal complaint accusing U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth of murder. Alejandro Andres Carranza Medina was killed Sept. 15 […]
By Marc Silver When an armed mob stormed the U.S. Capitol and took over the building in 2021, many Americans said that’s what happens in “Third World” countries. TV journalists […]
By Santiago Rosero On the road to Tabacundo, a landscape dominated by parched mountains begins to fill up with greenhouses. This town of around 21,000 inhabitants and known as the […]
The Trump administration’s drone strikes against boats allegedly bringing illicit drugs to the US come amid an explosion in the amount of cocaine being produced in Colombia and Peru. But […]
By Phil Gunson Caracas, Venezuela’s neglected but beautiful capital, sits behind a forested, over 9,000-foot tall mountain that obscures the city’s proximity to the sea. From the summit, on a […]
By Steven Dudley It was around 3 p.m. on July 19 when a young man stumbled into a small billiards hall in the coastal city of General Villamil Playas in […]
By Marianna Parraga and Dave Sherwood Cuba’s imports of crude and fuel in the first 10 months of the year fell more than a third compared with the same period […]
By Simon Romero One day in mid-September, Alejandro Carranza, a Colombian fisherman who, his family said, had long plied the Caribbean in search of marlin and tuna, called his teenage […]
Russia is “ready” to help Venezuela as the U.S. beefs up its military presence near the South American nation, Russia’s foreign minister said. Caracas and Moscow signed a strategic partnership […]
By Laura Paddison Off Brazil’s northeastern coast, where the sediment-heavy water of the vast Amazon River tips out into the Atlantic, are two very different types of treasure. The first […]
Rodrigo Paz, a pro-business conservative, took office Saturday as Bolivia’s president, ending nearly 20 years of socialist rule and inheriting acute economic woes. Paz, the 58-year-old son of a former […]
By Erich de la Fuente Organized crime is changing Latin America’s societal fabric. As the region’s most visible threat, the emergence of transnational crime organizations is rapidly reconfiguring some traditional […]
Peru has broken diplomatic relations with Mexico, the Andean nation’s foreign minister said on Monday, after Peru’s former prime minister holed up in the Mexican embassy in the country to […]
Russia has announced that it is considering providing Venezuela with its advanced Oreshnik midrange ballistic missile as the Donald Trump administration ramps up its military presence in the Caribbean nation. […]
By University of Reading Human DNA can be extracted from the ‘cement’ head lice used to glue their eggs to hairs thousands of years ago, scientists have found, which could […]
By Adriana Marin A massive anti-drug raid in Rio de Janeiro left 132 people dead in the early hours of October 28 as Brazil’s security forces confronted one of the […]
President Daniel Noboa has backtracked on his plan to locate a foreign military base in the Galapagos Islands. On Tuesday, the president had suggested that an “ideal location” for a […]
By Eleonore Hughes and Diarlei Rodrigues About 2,500 Brazilian police and soldiers launched a massive raid on a drug-trafficking gang in Rio de Janeiro Tuesday, leaving at least 130 suspects […]
The U.S. military on Monday struck four more vessels that were allegedly trafficking narcotics in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing 14 and leaving one survivor, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced […]




















