Venezuela’s military launches major offensive against illegal gold mining operations in Bolívar state as the government moves to clear criminal organizations from the Orinoco Mining Arc ahead of a planned opening of sector
Three months after winning Chile’s presidency with 58% of the vote on a promise of fiscal discipline, José Antonio Kast formally abandoned his zero-deficit pledge on June 9 — replacing it with a target of 1.5% of GDP by 2030
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
Eight months before Washington, Paraguay designated the PCC & Comando Vermelho as terrorist organizations — and has since signed a Status of Forces Agreement with the U.S. as it begins to ramp up its military effort against crime networks
FARC dissident car bomb near a police station in Cauca, ELN allegations of voter pressure in favor of Iván Cepeda, and Colombia’s most powerful drug lord threatening violence against “warmongering sectors.” The security crisis shadowing Colombia’s June 21 presidential runoff
The U.S. share of Brazilian exports hit a historic low of 9.4% in the first quarter of 2026 — the worst figure ever recorded — as the Trump administration proposes fresh 25% tariff
Roberto Sánchez’s campaign is built around a single promise — freeing Pedro Castillo, the former president serving an 11 1/2-year sentence for attempting to dissolve Congress in December 2022. Will it succeed?
With over 92% of votes counted, Peru’s race between Keiko Fujimori & Roberto Sánchez remains too close to call Monday morning — in a margin measured in tens of thousands that may take days or weeks to officially certify
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”
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
Latin American buyers acquire 49% of all new luxury units in South Florida & Miami in cash as right-wing political turn sweeping Latin America shifts the city’s role from safe haven for flight capital to headquarters for a new generation of Latin American investment
With just 21 meters of concrete separating the two ends of a 1,294-meter bridge over the Paraguay River, South America’s most ambitious infrastructure project is days from a historic milestone
