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
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”
