A magnitude 7.5 earthquake kills hundreds — Venezuela’s strongest in 125 years — as buildings collapsed across the capital, airports shut down. U.S. deploys search and rescue teams within hours
U.S. Southern Command and Venezuelan security forces killed Tren de Aragua founder Héctor “Niño” Guerrero in a joint airstrike in Bolívar state on June 12 — but analysts warn the gang’s fragmented cells across Chile, Colombia, Peru, and the United States are readying for survival
19 palm plantation workers massacred in rural palm plantation on May 21 — suspect arrested — in one of the deadliest single days in Honduras since 2018
De la Espriella takes office on August 7 with Washington’s full agenda — coca fumigation, extraditions, China, and more. But a razor-thin mandate and a preferred governing style of executive decrees may complicate things
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
Six days before Colombia’s June 21 presidential runoff, every major external actor in the hemisphere has a stake in the outcome — here are their reasons
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?
One week after Peru’s June 7 presidential runoff, Keiko Fujimori leads Roberto Sánchez by just 600 votes out of 18 million counted — a margin that has changed hands multiple times and that election authorities say could take until mid-July to certify
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
