Miami jury convicts Maduro’s secret $50 million lobbyist — a former congressman who shared a Tallahassee home with Marco Rubio — as Rodríguez left Venezuela for the first time since January 3 & oil exports hit a seven-year high
A 25-year-old Colombian journalist was intercepted at a roadblock, interrogated, then killed by the same FARC dissident faction currently sitting at Petro’s peace table — 22 days before Colombia votes
Lula & Trump met for three hours, canceled the joint press conference, agreed on a 30-day tariff deadline, and left Washington with exactly what each needed — a diplomatic win neither could fully explain in public
Two Puerto Rican brothers finish 1st & 2nd at the Kentucky Derby for the first time in 150 years — and the school that made them is a free vocational program on an island that has been producing world-class jockeys for half a century
Shakira unveils official 2026 World Cup anthem from Maracaná wearing Colombia yellow — her fourth FIFA anthem in twenty years, a record no Latin American artist has ever matched
Cuba formally invites its diaspora to invest in private businesses on the island for the first time in 60 years as Washington sanctions the same entity that controls the economy they would be investing in
For the first time in six decades, Cuba is formally allowing its nationals abroad to own and invest in private businesses on the island. But skepticism in Miami runs just as deep as the economic desperation driving the offer
Argentina is managing a surge in hantavirus infections — double last year’s rate — as the country investigates whether it is the source of a deadly outbreak that has killed three people aboard an international cruise ship
A Cusco tour guide known as the “Ambassador of the Andes” left for work on April 18 & never came home — what police found inside a house near the city center has no precedent in Peru’s recent criminal history
Peru’s Congress — where more than half of members are under criminal investigation — has spent years dismantling the tools used to prosecute organized crime & June 7 runoff will produce a new president but not a new Congress
Maduro built Tren de Aragua into a deniable weapon of Venezuelan foreign policy — now he’s gone, the gang is fragmenting across a dozen countries, and nobody in Caracas, Washington, or Bogotá knows what it becomes next
Washington designated Colombia's most powerful criminal network a terrorist organization five months ago — and with the election 25 days away, the consequences are only now fully arriving