The body of pop star Liam Payne, who died in Buenos Aires last month, has been taken from the city's British cemetery on route to the airport, a senior
November 06, 2024
Argentina's dollar bonds jumped in early trade on Wednesday and the country's risk index dropped sharply, with investors cheering the prospect of closer ties
November 06, 2024
Spanish police have made a record cocaine seizure after finding 13 metric tons of the drug hidden in a shipment of bananas in a container from Ecuador in the
November 06, 2024
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Wednesday congratulated former U.S.
November 06, 2024
Hurricane Rafael knocks out Cuba’s power grid and heads into the Gulf on a much different path
November 06, 2024
Brazil's Finance Minister said on Wednesday the government has concluded talks on new measures to strengthen the fiscal framework, seen as crucial to improve the
November 06, 2024
Brazil's annual inflation is forecast to have reached a one-year high in October on steeper energy and meat prices caused by a severe drought, while a host of risks
November 06, 2024
Mexico must maneuver carefully now that Donald Trump has secured his return to the U.S. presidency, but Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum
November 06, 2024
Cuba's national electrical grid collapsed on Wednesday as Hurricane Rafael slammed into the island's southwest shore, packing sustained winds of 115
November 06, 2024
Donald Trump's victory in the U.S. presidential election drew mixed reactions among ordinary Iranians, with some fearing a heightened risk of war and economic
November 06, 2024
Jenniffer González of Puerto Rico's pro-statehood New Progressive Party is leading polls in a historic gubernatorial election that could see her party secure a third consecutive term for the first time
November 06, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump has made a flurry of picks for his cabinet and other high-ranking administration positions following his election victory.
November 06, 2024
Mexico's peso was narrowly weaker on Wednesday after largely recovering from a slump earlier in the day to its
November 06, 2024
China’s state media focuses on US divisions as America awaits election results
November 06, 2024
The Mexican peso sank against the U.S. dollar as results in the U.S. presidential election rolled in, extending a streak of volatility which has hit the currency
November 06, 2024
Wall Street tore to record highs on Wednesday and major stock markets around the world surged, while bitcoin hit an all-time-high and
November 06, 2024
Oil prices settled lower on Wednesday as investors weighed a strong U.S. dollar against the potential that U.S.
November 06, 2024
Hurricane Rafael has pushed into the Gulf of Mexico after plowing across western Cuba as a Category 3 hurricane with winds so powerful it knocked out the entire country’s power grid
November 06, 2024
Hurricane Rafael is passing through the Cayman Islands in the Caribbean and is forecast to rapidly intensify before making landfall in western Cuba, according to the U.S.
November 05, 2024
Brazil's government is preparing measures to curb spending that would put health and education expenditures under a general cap that
November 05, 2024
The European Union expects to close the trade agreement with South American bloc Mercosur by the end of the year, the EU commissioner for crisis management
November 05, 2024
A caravan of approximately 3,000 migrants set off on Tuesday from southern Mexico, headed toward the United States on the day when U.S
November 05, 2024
Mexico's controversial judicial reform requiring direct election of judges and magistrates emerged mostly unscathed on Tuesday from a Supreme Court vote on whether
November 05, 2024
An extended delay in enacting reforms in Chile aimed at expediting mining permits represents a "serious" problem for the industry in the world's top copper-producing country, the
November 05, 2024
World leaders from major economies including the United States, the European Union and Brazil are planning to skip this year's
November 05, 2024
Brazil's government continued high-level discussions on Tuesday towards the announcement of anticipated spending control measures seen as crucial for sustaining fiscal rules,
November 05, 2024
Blackouts on the Caribbean island are shining a light on a crumbling economy that the nation’s communist leaders may struggle to emerge from.
November 05, 2024
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump warned on Monday that, if elected, he would punish Mexico and China with tariffs unless both governments moved to stop the flow of
November 05, 2024
Brazilian Finance Minister Fernando Haddad presented fiscal proposals under discussion to other cabinet members and to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in a meeting on Monday,
November 04, 2024
Hangzhou Duojia Technology, which distributes solar technology to Cuba, called a Cuban plan to dramatically boost solar generation a win for both countries, touting
November 04, 2024
Brazil's Itau Unibanco, Latin America's largest private lender, on Monday bumped up its estimated portfolio growth for the year after logging an 18% increase in
November 04, 2024
Mexico's Congress will likely be able to pass a constitutional reform abolishing certain autonomous institutions by mid-November, the lower house's leader said on Monday.
November 04, 2024
Argentina's showman libertarian President Javier Milei sang along to Elvis Presley on Monday even as he took aim at officials he called "traitors" for defying
November 04, 2024
Florida voters rejected ballot measures to protect abortion rights and legalize marijuana
November 04, 2024
Brazilian police have indicted a Colombian fish trader as the person who planned the slayings of Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira and British journalist Dom Phillips in the Amazon in 2022, they announced Monday
November 04, 2024
The judge and senator who chaired the Truth and Reconciliation Commission into Canadian residential schools' abuse of Indigenous children has died.
November 04, 2024
Mexico’s Defense Department claims the National Guard has killed two Colombians and wounded four others in a confrontation near the U.S. border
November 04, 2024
Tropical Storm Rafael gained steam late on Monday as it churned northward toward Cuba, which is still struggling to recover from a nationwide blackout and hurricane two weeks ago.
November 04, 2024
Brazilian authorities are preparing to remove illegal gold miners from an Indigenous reservation in the Amazon rainforest that has been criss-crossed with
November 04, 2024
Brazil's Finance Minister Fernando Haddad said on Monday that fiscal measures to support the country's fiscal framework could be announced this week, adding that the government is
November 04, 2024
Residents in U.S.
November 04, 2024
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum criticized the country's Supreme Court on Monday for overstepping its authority as it weighs whether to deem part of a recently-enacted
November 04, 2024
Forecasters say Tropical Storm Rafael has formed in the Caribbean and will bring heavy rain to Jamaica and the Cayman Islands before strengthening to a hurricane and likely hitting Cuba
November 04, 2024
Argentina's libertarian president, Javier Milei, a political outsider who won election last year brandishing a chainsaw as a blunt symbol of his plans to cut
November 04, 2024
Bolivia’s transformative and divisive former President Evo Morales has told the Associated Press that he would press on with a hunger strike until the government of his protégé-turned-rival agreed to a political dialogue
November 03, 2024
A hurricane watch for the Cayman Islands and a tropical storm warning for Jamaica have been issued as a weather system in the Caribbean is expected to strengthen
November 03, 2024
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who sustained a head injury last month, underwent imaging tests on Sunday in Brasilia, with the medical report saying his condition
November 03, 2024
Brazil Finance Minister Fernando Haddad canceled a trip to Europe this week, the ministry said in a statement on Sunday, amid pressure from market participants for the government
November 03, 2024
The two parties that have dominated Puerto Rican politics for decades are losing their grip as they face the stiffest competition yet from a younger generation fed up with the island’s corruption, chronic power outages and mismanagement of public funds
November 03, 2024
National Guard troops on standby in Washington state, Oregon and Nevada as a precaution for ‘potential’ election unrest
November 02, 2024
Authorities say a local leader of the Mexican folk saint cult “La Santa Muerte” has been gunned down at an altar to the skeletal figure
November 02, 2024
Indigenous environmental defenders in Ecuador are suffering an increasing number of threats and sometimes deadly attacks amid spiraling violence in the
November 01, 2024
The Brazilian foreign ministry said in a statement on Friday it was taken by surprise by an "offensive tone" that Venezuelan authorities used against Brazil
November 01, 2024
Bolivian President Luis Arce accused followers of his former mentor-turned-rival, Evo Morales, of being behind an armed takeover of military posts and holding
November 01, 2024
Venezuela's oil exports rose to a four-year high, approaching 950,000 barrels per day in October, boosted by growing crude output
November 01, 2024
Petrochemical firm Braskem and 19 people were formally accused by Brazil's police following an investigation into sinking ground in the city of Maceio related to salt mining
November 01, 2024
Christians in many countries around the world are celebrating All Saints’ Day, a somber and spiritual day in the church’s liturgical calendar that shares pagan roots with Halloween
November 01, 2024
U.S. border authorities apprehended some 54,000 migrants illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in October, according to preliminary figures obtained by Reuters
November 01, 2024
During the Day of the Dead celebrations that take place in late October and early November, Latin Americans honor their departed loved ones by setting up altars adorned with food, flowers and photographs
November 01, 2024
Pets are not forgotten during Mexico’s famed Day of the Dead celebrations, when even Fido and Tiger get a place at the altars Mexican families set up to honor their deceased loved ones, complete with flowers, candles and photographs
November 01, 2024
A Brazilian judge sentenced two former police officers to decades behind bars on Thursday for the 2018 murders of Rio de Janeiro city council member
October 31, 2024
Arizona voters have approved letting local police arrest migrants suspected of illegally entering the state from Mexico
October 31, 2024
A judge has handed down long sentences to two former police officers for the 2018 murder of Rio de Janeiro city councilwoman Marielle Franco, an icon of Brazil’s political left whose killing sparked outrage
October 31, 2024
The Los Angeles Dodgers spent big bucks to beef up their roster with the additions of Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto this season
October 31, 2024
In the Mexican state of Sinaloa, authorities have ordered residents not to don masks or costumes on Thursday night for Halloween to avoid being confused with
October 31, 2024
A tax amnesty program in Argentina encouraging residents to deposit foreign currency previously stuffed under mattresses, stored in safety-
October 31, 2024
At a recent naturalization ceremony, nine immigrants from countries spanning from Lebanon and Germany to Taiwan and Mexico took their oaths to become American citizens
October 31, 2024
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Thursday she will attend the G20 summit in November hosted by Brazil, marking her first international trip since taking office
October 31, 2024
The U.S. on Thursday imposed sanctions on senior members of the armed wing of a Mexican drug cartel that operates on border territories in and around Chihuahua, Mexico
October 31, 2024
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has canceled a trip to the Nov. 14-15 APEC leaders' summit in Lima, a presidential adviser told Reuters on Thursday.
October 31, 2024
The Biden administration says some 8,000 North Korean soldiers are now in Russia near Ukraine’s border and are preparing to help the Kremlin fight against Ukrainian troops in the coming days
October 31, 2024
Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris warned voters on Thursday that Republican Donald Trump and his allies would
October 31, 2024
A Gen Z pop star kicked off Harris’ campaign. Puerto Rican musicians may bring her to the finish line
October 31, 2024
Eight justices of Mexico’s Supreme Court have said they will leave the court rather than stand for election as required by a controversial judicial overhaul passed last month
October 31, 2024
Mexico's lower house of Congress approved a measure on Wednesday that makes changes to the constitution "unchallengeable" as ruling party Morena and allies push through a swath
October 30, 2024
Argentina’s President Javier Milei has dismissed his foreign minister hours after the country voted against the U.S. economic embargo of Cuba at the U.N. Argentine Foreign Minister Diana Mondino was replaced by the current Argentina’s ambassador to the U.S., Gerardo Werthein, Milei’s spokesman Manuel Adorni announced on his X account
October 30, 2024
Bolivian President Luis Arce on Wednesday called for the end of costly highway blockades that have paralyzed parts of the South American country and fueled an increasingly volatile
October 30, 2024
A journalist who covered the violent western Mexico state of Michoacan for a Facebook news page has been shot to death
October 30, 2024
Argentina's President Javier Milei on Wednesday replaced Foreign Affairs Minister Diana Mondino after she voted in favor of lifting the U.S. embargo against Cuba at the United
October 30, 2024
Hundreds of Indigenous people were marching Wednesday in Brazil’s capital, urging Congress to drop a proposed constitutional amendment that has the potential to paralyze and even reverse land allocations
October 30, 2024
Eight of 11 justices on Mexico's Supreme Court have resigned and declined to participate in an election for the court scheduled for June, the court said on Wednesday.
October 30, 2024
The Venezuelan government on Wednesday said it was recalling its ambassador in Brazil over what it described as "repeated
October 30, 2024
An explosion at a Simec-owned steel plant in Mexico's central Tlaxcala state in the early hours of Wednesday killed at least 12 people, state authorities
October 30, 2024
A 24-hour strike launched on Wednesday by transportation unions in Argentina against President Javier Milei's austerity measures blocked grain shipments at a major hub and
October 30, 2024
A trial has opened against two former policemen accused in the 2018 killing of a Rio de Janeiro councilwoman Marielle Franco
October 30, 2024
The first place many migrants sleep after entering Mexico from Guatemala is inside a large structure, a roof above and fenced in the sides on a rural ranch
October 30, 2024
The government of Suriname said on Tuesday it would wait until after next year's May general election to decide whether to apply for another program with the
October 29, 2024
Authorities say a 10-story hotel under renovation in Argentina has collapsed, leaving one person dead and at least seven trapped in the debris
October 29, 2024
Colombia at the U.N.
October 29, 2024
Mexican Supreme Court Justice Alfredo Gutierrez will resign from the court at the end of August 2025, he said in a letter on Tuesday, the first of several
October 29, 2024
Mexican state-owned oil company Pemex reported a deeper $8.2 billion third-quarter net loss on Tuesday, hurt mostly by a weaker exchange rate
October 29, 2024
The U.S.
October 29, 2024
One dead and others trapped beneath rubble of collapsed hotel in Argentina
October 29, 2024
Argentina's country risk index, a measure of the premium investors demand to hold local bonds versus equivalent U.S. debt, dropped under 900 basis points on
October 29, 2024
Spain appointed a new ambassador to Buenos Aires on Tuesday, five months after having withdrawn its envoy in a diplomatic dispute over Argentine President Javier Milei's derogatory
October 29, 2024
“Pan de muerto," or “bread of the dead,” is freshly baked in Mexico ahead of Day of the Dead celebrations
October 29, 2024
A ten-story hotel building collapsed early on Tuesday in the coastal city of Villa Gesell in Argentina’s Buenos Aires province, the local municipality said in a statement.
October 29, 2024
Qatar will work with U.S.
October 29, 2024
The Panama Canal aims to regain vessel traffic carrying U.S. liquefied natural gas to Asia as demand in that
October 29, 2024
Chinese President Xi Jinping asked U.S.
October 29, 2024
When Guatemalan journalist José Rubén Zamora returned to his home last week after more than two years in prison without a conviction, he found it empty
October 29, 2024
Bolivian ex-president Evo Morales told Reuters on Monday that the government of ally-turned-rival President Luis Arce was behind an
October 29, 2024
Mexico's Supreme Court published a proposal on Monday to invalidate core parts of a controversial judicial overhaul that has rattled markets and shaken investor
October 28, 2024
More than 2,000 soldiers and 500 police officers surrounded a dense neighborhood on the outskirts of El Salvador’s capital in an effort to quash the remnants of gangs the president said were trying to set up shop in the area
October 28, 2024
Four Roman Catholic bishops in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero called Monday for civilian and military authorities to take steps to protect residents of a region rocked by violence that has left more than a dozen dead in recent days
October 28, 2024
A coastal flooding prevention project in New York City could be a model for communities along America's hurricane-battered coasts
October 28, 2024
IndyCar driver Pato O'Ward dazzled in Mexico City during the Formula 1 weekend and proved he's a big enough star to carry IndyCar into his native country for its own race
October 28, 2024
Residents say a speaker calling Puerto Rico garbage before a packed Donald Trump rally in New York was the latest humiliation for an island territory that has long suffered from mistreatment
October 28, 2024
Bolivia's government on Monday denied accusations that it had led a targeted attack on ex-President Evo Morales, whose car was shot at on Sunday, claiming the former
October 28, 2024
Conservative and center-right parties were the big winners in Brazil's city elections on Sunday, but right-leaning voters preferred moderates to candidates
October 28, 2024
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Monday condemned an apparent assassination attempt on former Bolivian President Evo Morales a day earlier, which took place amid a growing
October 28, 2024
At a remote military checkpoint in the Mexican desert some 25 miles (40 km) south of the border
October 28, 2024
In Cuba, all eyes are on the U.S. presidential election.
October 28, 2024
Authorities in Mexico's Sinaloa state said on Sunday that at least 14 people were killed the day before amid a wave of violence that erupted after drug trafficker Ismael "El
October 27, 2024
Sao Paulo's Mayor Ricardo Nunes was reelected for another four years in Brazil's largest city, defeating leftist challenger Guilherme Boulos, according to a projection on Sunday
October 27, 2024
Former President Evo Morales of Bolivia claims he survived an assassination attempt on Sunday after unidentified men opened fire on his car
October 27, 2024
Bolivia's former leader Evo Morales said on Sunday his vehicle was hit by gunfire captured in a video, reflecting how political tensions between
October 27, 2024
Sao Paulo Mayor Ricardo Nunes was reelected on Sunday to serve another four years in Brazil's largest city, defeating leftist challenger Guilherme Boulos in
October 27, 2024
Uruguay is heading for a tight presidential election run-off next month after a first round on Sunday saw a center-left candidate come top ahead
October 27, 2024
The school system in Aurora, Colorado, is striving to accommodate more than 3,000 new students mostly from Venezuela and Colombia
October 27, 2024
The leading contenders in Uruguay’s presidential election say voters in the small South American nation had sent the race to a run-off in November
October 27, 2024
Nineteen people died and six others were injured when a bus crashed on a highway in Mexico's central state of Zacatecas on Saturday, local authorities said.
October 26, 2024
Brazil's environmental protection agency IBAMA has imposed 365 million reais ($64 million) in fines on cattle ranches and meat packers, including the world's largest JBS SA, for
October 26, 2024
China expressed concern over U.S. tariffs and Russia-related sanctions during a meeting of the two countries' Economic Working Group in Washington, China's finance ministry said
October 26, 2024
Top U.N. officials say more than 600 million women and girls are now affected by war
October 25, 2024
Former Abercrombie & Fitch CEO pleads not guilty to sixteen counts of sex trafficking and international prostitution
October 25, 2024
Biden apologizes to Native Americans for abusive government-funded boarding schools
October 25, 2024
President Joe Biden formally apologized on Friday for the U.S. government's role in running abusive Native American boarding
October 25, 2024
The Panama Canal's profit increased about 9.5% in the fiscal year ended in September to $3.45 billion despite a severe drought that reduced
October 25, 2024
Argentina's closely-watched country risk index, a reflection of how investors view the country's debt, broke below a key level of 1,000 basis points on
October 25, 2024
Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has signed an agreement worth tens of billions of dollars with the mining companies responsible for a 2015 dam collapse that was one of the country’s worst-ever environmental disasters
October 25, 2024
A debate about reparations for Britain’s role in the slave trade overshadowed a summit in Samoa of the Commonwealth, many of whose member nations were once British colonies
October 25, 2024
Mexico's Senate on Friday passed a proposal which would make reforms to the Constitution "unchallengeable" as ruling party Morena and allies push through a swath of
October 25, 2024
In Uruguay's capital Montevideo and around this South American nation of 3.4 million people, voters are gearing up for Sunday's election, overshadowed by a
October 25, 2024
The International Monetary Fund on Friday urged governments in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) to target economic policies aimed at
October 25, 2024
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has canceled the trips to the United Nations summits COP16 in Colombia and COP29 in Azerbaijan, his office said on Friday, following
October 25, 2024
Discussions on reparations for transatlantic slavery and colonialism are gaining momentum, with Caribbean and African nations calling on former colonial powers to
October 25, 2024
King Charles III has told a summit of Commonwealth countries in Samoa that the past could not be changed as he indirectly acknowledged calls from some of Britain’s former colonies for a reckoning over its role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade
October 25, 2024
King Charles said on Friday the Commonwealth should acknowledge its "painful" history, as African and Caribbean nations push
October 25, 2024
US to evacuate 20 embassy staff from Haiti following car attack and intensifying gang violence, say sources
October 25, 2024
Japanese Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato and U.S.
October 24, 2024
Brazil's government will make announcements soon that will partly address financial markets' fiscal concerns that are affecting the country's risk premium,
October 24, 2024
The police have raided the Buenos Aires hotel where ex-One Direction singer Liam Payne stayed before dying last week after falling from a third-floor balcony
October 24, 2024
A car bomb left outside a police station in western Mexico has wounded three people
October 24, 2024
Brazilian meatpacker JBS and Mexico's Sigma Alimentos are among those competing to acquire Oscar Mayer, the hot dogs and cold cuts business of packaged food
October 24, 2024
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada will significantly reduce the number of new immigrants in the country after acknowledging his government failed to get the balance right coming out of the pandemic
October 24, 2024
An American cryptocurrency executive held in Nigeria for the past eight months has been released after authorities there announced that they were ending his money laundering trial on health and diplomatic grounds
October 24, 2024
A car bomb on Thursday in front of a local government's public security office in central Mexico injured three police officers, the secretariat said, in an uncommon type of
October 24, 2024
Gangs in Haiti have opened fire and hit a U.N. helicopter, forcing it to land in Port-au-Prince in the latest attack in the country's capital as violence surges once again
October 24, 2024
The severe drought of the Amazon River has caused Indigenous communities who live beside it to struggle for food, water and simply getting from one place to another
October 24, 2024
Brazil's government is considering calculating the country's potential growth rate in addition to the official GDP to show that there is room for the economy to
October 24, 2024
The journey of Rossanna and Widman began in the Guatemalan village of San Juan La Laguna, on the turquoise Lake Atitlan, where they met
October 24, 2024
Uruguayan Alvaro Delgado, a 55-year-old former senator and the conservative ruling coalition's continuity candidate for president, is trailing his center-left
October 24, 2024
North Carolina state legislators have approved over $600 million more toward Hurricane Helene recovery and relief
October 24, 2024
The World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) are providing Argentina with $8.8 billion in financing, the South American country's economy ministry announced on Wednesday, as
October 23, 2024
Mexico's Becle, the world's largest tequila producer, more than quadrupled its net profit in the third quarter, it said on Wednesday, boosted by favorable foreign exchange-rate
October 23, 2024
Canada will sharply lower the number of immigrants it allows into the country for the first time in years, marking a notable shift in policy for the
October 23, 2024
The city of Los Angeles is mourning the death of Mexican-born pitcher Fernando Valenzuela, who starred for the Dodgers in the early 1980s
October 23, 2024
Bus drivers in Peru, angry over violent attacks and extortion, went on strike on Wednesday for the third time in less than a month, disrupting the country's sprawling
October 23, 2024
The U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday that a Venezuelan television news network owner was charged in an alleged $1.2 billion money laundering scheme.
October 23, 2024
Cuba said on Wednesday it would keep schools closed and non-essential workers home through Sunday as the crisis-racked Caribbean island nation struggled to recover from the collapse
October 23, 2024
Cuba’s large-scale blackouts that left 10 million people without power this month wouldn’t have happened if the government had built out more solar power to boost its failing electric grid as promised, some experts say
October 23, 2024
A Uruguayan pension reform plan that seeks to lower the retirement age to 60 and will be put to citizens in a referendum on Sunday would "blow up" the South
October 23, 2024
Unhappy legislators from Canada's ruling Liberals on Wednesday vented their frustration in a closed-door meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who they blame
October 23, 2024
Brazil's Finance Minister Fernando Haddad said on Wednesday that a "remedy" to ensure the sustainability of the country's fiscal framework will be discussed
October 23, 2024
Peruvian theologian the Rev. Gustavo Gutiérrez, the father of the social justice-centered liberation theology that the Vatican once criticized for its Marxist undercurrents, has died
October 23, 2024
Foreign debt financing by Brazilian issuers is surging again, reaching a three-year high in 2024, as local companies seek to refinance existing obligations
October 23, 2024
Uruguayan center-left opposition leader Yamandu Orsi, whose political ambitions were galvanized by his experience growing up in a dictatorship, is the
October 23, 2024
The Panama Canal Authority is reaching out to communities that could be impacted if the Indio River is dammed to make a new reservoir ensuring the water supply needed to operate the Panama Canal
October 23, 2024
Chinese fast-fashion giant Shein is launching its first branded credit card worldwide through a partnership with Mexican fintech Stori, the firms said on Tuesday
October 23, 2024
A shootout near the capital of Mexico's Sinaloa state killed 19 suspected gang members, while one local cartel leader was arrested, Mexico's defense ministry
October 23, 2024
U.S. authorities say arrests for illegally crossing the border from Mexico fell 7% in September to a more than four-year low
October 22, 2024
Haitian gangs are ramping up attacks on areas they do not yet control, the head of the United Nation's Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH) warned on Tuesday,
October 22, 2024
Cuba made fast progress restoring power to swaths of the Caribbean island nation on Tuesday, both in Havana and outlying provinces, even as emergency and grid
October 22, 2024
Hundreds of people have turned out for the burial of Catholic priest Marcelo Pérez, an activist for Indigenous peoples and farm laborers who was killed in the southern Mexico state of Chiapas
October 22, 2024
The World Bank is prepared to provide Argentina with more than $2 billion in new loans destined for social security, education, transport, energy and battling poverty, the
October 22, 2024
Peru's government will monitor money transfers sent abroad from Venezuelans living in Peru, President Dina Boluarte announced on Tuesday, describing the measure as a response to
October 22, 2024
Just three or four city blocks in all of Central Havana remained without electricity on Monday evening - an island of darkness in the Cuban capital's sea of
October 22, 2024
Mexico's new president has announced an agriculture plan that could make the country's food production and distribution look a lot more like it did in the 1980s
October 22, 2024
Mining and transport conglomerate Grupo Mexico on Tuesday reported a 17.55% increase in its net profit during the third quarter, boosted by copper
October 22, 2024
A small town in far eastern Cuba is recovering from flooding that killed at least seven people after Hurricane Oscar crossed the island’s eastern coast as a tropical storm with winds and heavy rain
October 22, 2024
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva underwent new medical exams on Tuesday, which showed his condition is stable in comparison to previous assessments following a
October 22, 2024
The devastation of Hurricanes Milton and Helene have opened the floodgates for people seeking disaster relief
October 22, 2024
An agreement by Vale, BHP and their joint venture Samarco to pay 170 billion reais ($29.85 billion) in
October 22, 2024
Stellantis is expanding its truck plant in Mexico as a "relief valve" for a U.S. truck factory expected to reach capacity in the future, Chrysler and Ram brand CEO
October 22, 2024
GDP in Latin America and the Caribbean is set to grow 2.1% this year, three-tenths of a percentage point more than projected in July, the International Monetary Fund said on
October 22, 2024
Argentina's beleaguered economy is set to rebound in 2025 after two years of recession as the government tries to spark a private sector-driven recovery with
October 22, 2024
Tropical Storm Oscar has disintegrated as it heads toward the Bahamas after making landfall in Cuba as a Category 1 hurricane, killing at least seven people
October 22, 2024
In a stretch of what once was Pennsylvania steel country, Democrats and Republicans are looking to test their strength with Latino voters
October 22, 2024
At dawn, pilgrims like Ernesto Troya undertook the hardest stretch of their journey to reach the image of the Black Christ of Portobelo in Panama
October 22, 2024
Peru’s former President Alejandro Toledo has been sentenced to 20 years and six months in prison in a case involving Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht, which became synonymous with corruption across Latin America, where it paid millions of dollars in bribes to government officials and others
October 21, 2024
Peruvian former President Alejandro Toledo was convicted of taking bribes from Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht and sentenced to 20 years and six months in prison
October 21, 2024
Hundreds of people have turned out to mourn Catholic priest Marcelo Pérez, an activist for Indigenous peoples and farm laborers who was killed in the southern Mexico state of Chiapas
October 21, 2024
An initial toxicology report for ex-One Direction singer Liam Payne, who died last week after falling from a third-floor hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, shows that he had cocaine in his system after his death, an Argentine official said
October 21, 2024
Shareholders of Grupo Argos and Grupo SURA, two of Colombia's largest conglomerates, on Monday gave their boards the green light to begin studying alternative
October 21, 2024
North Carolina voters will cast ballots for president and governor in the Nov. 5 general election while many in the state are still dealing with the aftermath and massive destruction caused by Hurricane Helene
October 21, 2024
Mexican officials say schools have six months to implement a government-sponsored ban on junk food or face heavy fines
October 21, 2024
A series of protests are expected to intensify across Argentina this week over a veto by President Javier Milei of a law that passed last month increasing funding for public universities
October 21, 2024
Cuba's power-grid operator said it had restored electricity to most of the capital Havana on Monday even as Tropical Storm Oscar lashed the
October 21, 2024
Georgia voters are once again expected to play a pivotal role in the presidential election on Nov. 5, even as many are focusing on recovering and rebuilding from the devastating effects of Hurricane Helene
October 21, 2024
Nine people died when the van they were traveling in collided with a truck in southern Brazil late on Sunday, local authorities said.
October 21, 2024
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said the head injury he suffered from a fall at home over the weekend was "serious" and that doctors expect to have a clear view on
October 21, 2024
Venezuela’s top prosecutor has announced the arrest of a former oil minister and accused him of working with the U.S. government to undermine the industry that drives the country’s economy
October 21, 2024
Venezuelan authorities have arrested former industry and oil minister Pedro Tellechea, Attorney General Tarek Saab said on Monday, the latest high-profile detention connected to
October 21, 2024
Police in Haiti are clashing with gunmen trying to take over one of the few communities in the capital, Port-au-Prince, that is not controlled by gangs
October 21, 2024
Victims of Brazil’s worst environmental disaster are taking their case for compensation to a UK court on Monday
October 21, 2024
By Rodrigo Campos Latin America is anxiously counting the days to Nov. 5, when U.S. voters will choose between relative continuity under Vice President Kamala Harris or a return to policies that
October 21, 2024
Tropical Storm Oscar is heading toward the Bahamas after dumping heavy rain across eastern Cuba
October 21, 2024
During this month's U.N.
October 21, 2024
A small town in far eastern Cuba is recovering from flooding that killed at least six people after Hurricane Oscar crossed the island’s eastern coast as a tropical storm with winds and heavy rain
October 21, 2024
BHP is cynically trying to avoid its responsibility for Brazil's worst environmental disaster, lawyers representing thousands of victims told London's High Court on
October 20, 2024
A Mexican Catholic priest was killed on Sunday in the southern state of Chiapas after officiating a mass, his religious order and authorities said, marking the latest death in
October 20, 2024
Catholic priest Marcelo Pérez has been killed in Mexico
October 20, 2024
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Sunday canceled his trip to Russia for the BRICS summit, following medical advice to temporarily avoid long-haul
October 20, 2024
Cuban power grid collapses for fourth time as hurricane arrives
October 20, 2024
Many Cubans are waiting in anguish as electricity on much of the island has yet to be restored days after an island-wide blackout
October 20, 2024
Hurricane Oscar is expected to reach Guantanamo or Holguin in Cuba later on Sunday as the island country struggles to restore power after its worst blackout in years, the U.S.
October 20, 2024
Cuba's electrical grid collapsed again on Sunday, the fourth such failure in 48 hours, raising fresh doubts about a quick fix on an island already suffering from
October 20, 2024
Oscar has weakened to a tropical storm after making landfall Sunday in eastern Cuba
October 19, 2024
Storm Nadine weakened to a tropical depression on Saturday as it chugged across Guatemala, after dumping heavy rain and bringing strong winds to neighboring Belize and the
October 19, 2024
Brazil's securities regulator CVM accused eight former executives of retailer Americanas of insider trading involving the company's securities ahead of the disclosure of a high-
October 19, 2024
Tropical Storm Nadine made landfall in Belize on Saturday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.
October 19, 2024
Cuba’s government says some electricity has been restored on the island after one of the country’s major power plants failed and left millions without electricity for two days
October 19, 2024
Cuba suffered a second nationwide blackout Saturday morning, hours after officials said power was being slowly restored. CNN's Patrick Oppmann reports.
October 19, 2024
Cuba's government said late on Saturday it had restored power to nearly one-fifth of the island's people after the national grid collapsed twice in 24 hours,
October 19, 2024
For more than 10,000 years, Native Americans have been living along California’s central coast
October 19, 2024
Cleveland All-Star closer Emmanuel Clase gave up two runs in the ninth inning as the New York Yankees moved closer to another World Series, beating the Guardians 8-6 to take a 3-1 lead in the American League Championship Series
October 19, 2024
A Guatemalan judge on Friday ruled that jailed journalist Jose Zamora can leave prison and be held in house arrest after over 800 days behind bars.
October 19, 2024
Mexico's navy said on Friday it had arrested 23 people in its largest-ever drugs bust, seizing some 8.4 thousand kilograms of illicit cargo in an operation off the country's
October 19, 2024
Cuba's national grid collapsed on Friday, leaving the entire population of 10 million people without electricity and underscoring the precarious state of the
October 18, 2024
Venezuela’s opposition leader speaks about ‘nightmare’ of his last days in Caracas before Spanish exile
October 18, 2024
The U.N. Security Council has voted unanimously to expand the arms embargo in Haiti to all types of weapons and ammunition, expressing grave concern at the extremely high levels of gang violence and criminal activities in the impoverished Caribbean nation
October 18, 2024
Gunmen sprayed with bullets the office building and several cars of respected Sinaloan media outlet El Debate on Friday, the news organization said, amid a
October 18, 2024
A longtime leader of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel who is facing drug trafficking charges in a U.S. court appeared for the first time before the judge presiding over the case
October 18, 2024
Peru's massive Chancay port, which authorities hope will become a major shipping hub for South America-Asia trade, will ship two container ships a week beginning late next month, an
October 18, 2024
The father of former One Direction star Liam Payne has arrived in Buenos Aires to arrange for the return of his son’s body to England days after the famous boy band singer fell to his death from a hotel balcony
October 18, 2024
Cuba’s electrical grid went down after one of the island’s major power plants failed, leaving millions without power
October 18, 2024
Pet owner reunited with 3 cats after home hit by Florida tornado
October 18, 2024
Businessman Alex Saab, a close ally of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro who was freed in a prisoner exchange with the United States last year, has been named as
October 18, 2024
The number of people casting ballots on the first day of early in-person voting in presidential battleground North Carolina exceeded the first-day total four years ago — even as Hurricane Helene recovery continued in the mountains
October 18, 2024
Hundreds of people dressed in white marched through the streets, many with tears in their eyes, chanting "No More Violence!"
October 18, 2024
Cuba restored a trickle of power to its grid by mid-evening on Friday, officials said, hours after the island plunged into a countrywide
October 18, 2024
The International Crisis Group is reporting that Colombia's government efforts to control deforestation in the Amazon are being hampered by the actions of left-wing dissidents who control the area
October 17, 2024
Argentine authorities continue to investigate the death of ex-One Direction singer Liam Payne, who died Oct. 16 at age 31 after falling from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires
October 17, 2024
One Direction member Liam Payne was found dead this week after falling from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentina, at just 31
October 17, 2024
The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has agreed to pay $880 million to hundreds of victims of clergy sexual abuse dating back decades
October 17, 2024
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October 17, 2024
A former Olympic snowboarder for Canada has been charged with running a drug trafficking ring that authorities say shipped vast amounts of cocaine across the Americas and killed four people
October 17, 2024
Florida and Texas were the two U.S. states with the largest number of new residents last year, and their biggest source was other countries
October 17, 2024
Legal analyst weighs in on Trump's thinking with Bondi pick
Brazil blasts Carrefour over vow to keep Mercosur meat off shelves
Elon Musk blasts Australia's planned ban on social media for children
Brazil to freeze $860 million in 2024 spending, nears fiscal package announcement
Brock Purdy's status for the 49ers in doubt this week because of sore shoulder
Josh Brolin really, really wants ‘Dune 2’ director Denis Villeneuve to be nominated for an Oscar
President Biden welcomes 2024 NBA champion Boston Celtics to White House