Abelardo de la Espriella wins Colombia’s June 21 presidential runoff with 12.9 million votes — defeating Iván Cepeda by fewer than 250,000 votes in the narrowest margin in the country’s recent electoral history
Peru’s presidential runoff has been deadlocked for eight days at a 600-vote margin while Venezuela’s Nobel laureate María Corina Machado prepares to return home as Colombia’s election attracts foreigners to reshape the hemisphere’s political map
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Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado announced she will return to Venezuela before the end of 2026 and run for president. How much longer will Venezuelans have to wait?
Trump administration sanctions Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, wife, stepson & two members of the Castro family — the third round of Cuba sanctions in under a month — as Rubio warns that more are coming “in the following days and weeks”
Latin America holds 60% of world’s lithium, the largest copper reserves on earth, and rare earth deposits that Washington & Beijing are spending billions to lock in
U.S. Justice Department charges Sinaloa’s sitting governor with conspiring with Los Chapitos to flood the United States with fentanyl, heroin, and cocaine. Nine other current & former officials are charged alongside him. One allegedly murdered a DEA source
Washington & Tehran agreed to stop shooting at each other on Tuesday. By Wednesday morning, Israel launched strikes on Beirut. The Strait of Hormuz remained closed. Islamabad talks begin Saturday. This is where things stand
At Colombia’s official World Cup send-off ceremony in Bogotá, captain James Rodríguez “snubs” Gustavo Petro's daughter Antonella — a three-second moment that went viral across Colombia as presidential election heads into its final weeks
Brazil records lowest homicide rate in over a decade — but extortion, cybercrime, police killings, and disappearances all rose in the same period, while PCC and CV cells expanded across 12 U.S. states
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary’s two-day visit to Mexico City was the most significant bilateral security meeting in months — set against CIA agent deaths, drug indictments, and a viral moment nobody planned: Mexico’s Interior Minister’s arrival on motorbike
Foreign Correspondent based in Latin America; Executive Editor at Sociedad Media
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