The Rodríguez removal from Washington’s naughty list marks the latest milestone in a rapidly evolving relationship between the Trump administration and Venezuela’s interim government, following the reopening of embassies in both capitals
The capture of Uruguayan drug lord Sebastián Marset in Bolivia exposes a transnational cocaine network stretching from the Southern Cone to major European port cities and the Italian mafia—raising bigger questions about the challenges for Latin American security
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced Monday that Mexico is working to reactivate oil shipments to Cuba, citing both sovereign right and commercial agreements, as a Russian tanker carrying 730,000 barrels docked at the port of Matanzas with tacit U.S. approval
A Russian tanker docks in Cuba. The U.S. Embassy reopens in Caracas. Nearly 1,000 prisoners freed. And Rubio tells Al Jazeera exactly what Washington wants next
Colombia’s presidential race has snapped into focus. The official ballot was finalized on March 25—the three-way contest between leftist Iván Cepeda, right-wing outsider Abelardo de la Espriella, and center-right Senator Paloma Valencia is now set in stone
Brazil condemned the US-Israel strikes on Iran, abstained on a lopsided UN Security Council resolution, and is now facing the deepest tension between its foreign policy identity and Washington in a generation
Gran Grif gang swept through the Jean-Denis neighborhood of Petite-Rivière de l'Artibonite in central Haiti on Sunday, leaving bodies in the streets and homes in flames. It is the latest in a pattern of massacres that has defined life and death in Haiti
Nicolás Maduro returned to a Manhattan federal courtroom on March 26 for the second time since his capture—and left with his drug trafficking charges firmly intact, a legal fees dispute unresolved, and a president publicly promising that more trials are on the way
President Trump said Sunday he has “no problem” with a Russian tanker delivering 730,000 barrels of crude to Cuba, stating that the island’s population needs to survive—a humanitarian carve-out within a blockade that has caused repeated island-wide blackouts and a deepening civilian crisis
In three days, Washington authorized U.S. companies to invest in Venezuela’s gold mines and cleared the path for Caracas to reopen its embassy. Oil. Gold. Diplomacy. The normalization is moving fast—and the conditions attached tell the full story
China has committed 90,000 tons of rice and $80 million to Cuba while Washington tightens its oil blockade. For the island’s 10 million residents, the great power competition arrives at the dinner table