Three months after winning Chile’s presidency, José Antonio Kast is governing through the country’s sharpest social unrest since he took office — as thousands of students clashed with police in Santiago Wednesday over his $6 billion austerity plan & education cuts
Beneath a fake discount store in Otay Mesa, the CJNG built a 1,933-foot cocaine tunnel — equipped with lighting, ventilation, and an electric rail system — that federal investigators watched for six months before seizing more than a ton of cocaine valued at $45 million
Eight presidents in a decade. Extortion, robberies, murders, and schools closed for fear of the criminal networks. Peru heads to the polls on Sunday, June 7 for a presidential runoff between right-wing Keiko Fujimori and leftist Roberto Sánchez
A de la Espriella victory on June 21 would open a reset of U.S.-Colombia relations across five concrete policy fronts — reversing four years of deterioration under Petro and repositioning Bogotá as one of Washington's closest hemispheric partners
Trump nominates Florida House Speaker Daniel Perez — a close ally of Marco Rubio — as U.S. Ambassador to Brazil on Monday, placing a politically connected Miami Republican at the center of Washington’s most consequential diplomatic relationship in South America
Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa lifts tariffs on Colombian imports following 10-minute call with opposition candidate De La Espriella — bypassing the Petro government and prompting Bogotá to accuse Quito of deliberate interference
A De La Espriella victory on June 21 would place the three largest South American economies under right-wing rule simultaneously for the first time in over two decades
Right-wing outsider Abelardo de la Espriella stuns pollsters on Sunday by winning Colombia’s presidential first round with 43.7%. June 21 runoff against leftist Senator Iván Cepeda is official — as outgoing President Gustavo Petro rejects the results
Washington designates Brazil’s PCC & CV as Specially Designated Global Terrorists on Thursday, with a formal Foreign Terrorist Organization classification set to take effect June 5 — a move Brasília says amounts to electoral interference ahead of October’s presidential vote
FIFA rejected Iran’s request to move its matches away from the U.S. Infantino personally guaranteed visas. And in 14 days, Iranian players will drive across the San Ysidro border crossing to play at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles
In a call with Defense Secretary Hegseth, Guatemalan President Arévalo agreed to joint military airstrikes against drug trafficking groups on Guatemalan soil. Operations could begin as early as June