Fans clashed with riot police at Buenos Aires’s Obelisk hours after Spain beat Argentina 1-0 in extra time of World Cup final. At least 15 people were arrested as officers used tear gas, rubber bullets & water cannons to disperse crowds
While Washington weighs a preliminary plan to help administer Venezuela’s earthquake reconstruction, Miami-Dade’s Venezuelan community has already delivered its own response
U.S. finalized a 25% tariff on Brazilian goods, citing illegal Amazon deforestation, digital trade restrictions, and anti-corruption failures after a yearlong Section 301 investigation. Lula rejected the move as groundless and vows countermeasures
Nine arrests in a Chiapas massacre and a newly unsealed San Diego narcoterrorism indictment against a Tijuana-based Sinaloa lieutenant reveal two governments running parallel, uncoordinated cases against the same fractured cartel
Trump confirms from the Oval Office that the U.S. is investigating reports of 300 Iranian drones stored in Cuba — warning Washington will act “in short order” if confirmed
Outgoing President Petro barred de la Espriella from a military base inauguration on July 13, suspended the transition process, and filed an annulment lawsuit before the Council of State — with 25 days until August 7 transfer of power
Peru’s Constitutional Court reverses 2022 ruling and strips Congress of spending power — returning budgetary authority to the executive branch following Keiko Fujimori election victory
Paraguay senator Celeste Amarilla under fire for racist rant against French striker Kylian Mbappé after France eliminates Paraguay 1-0 in the round of 16
De la Espriella has ruled out a U.S.-led “incursion” on Colombian soil — while simultaneously advocating for U.S. military bases in Colombia, joint coca fumigation operations, bombing narco-trafficking groups alongside American forces
Cuba’s national electric grid collapsed at midday Monday — the fourth total blackout of 2026 — leaving 10 million people without power as the island’s decades-old infrastructure deterioration converges with a U.S. fuel blockade
Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez claims 80% of collapsed buildings during earthquakes were privately developed — deflecting scrutiny from state-built Chavista housing projects razed in La Guaira
Brazil votes on October 4 in the most consequential election in Latin America’s political realignment as internal Bolsonaro family fractures have destabilized the right’s campaign