Peru is on its ninth president in a decade. A $3.5 billion U.S. arms deal just collapsed the cabinet. The election count is still disputed & a presidential runoff is six weeks away. This is what a decade of institutional collapse looks like in real time
Ecuador declared an internal armed conflict in January 2024, 15 months later, it has the highest homicide rate in Latin America, U.S. forces operating on its soil & a president asking Washington for troops. Here’s where things stand
A bombshell WSJ investigation compared the PCC to the Sicilian mob and called it a global cocaine superpower. In Brazil, the reaction was volcanic — and in Washington, the timing could not be more loaded
Washington is fusing artificial intelligence, autonomous drones & counterterrorism doctrine into a new kind of war against organized crime in the Western Hemisphere
A fatal accident returning from a drug lab raid in Chihuahua has confirmed what Mexico’s government had publicly denied: CIA officers were operating inside the country
Ali Zaki Hage Jalil arrived in Panama City on Monday to face trial for the Alas Chiricanas bombing that killed 21 people. Extradition — approved by Venezuela’s post-Maduro regime — closes 30 years of impunity in one of Latin America’s biggest unsolved terrorism cases
At a progressive summit in Barcelona, Colombia’s outgoing president invoked the Spanish colonial era to warn Trump that Washington’s approach to the region is creating the conditions for “rebellion.” The warning is real, but the messenger is complicated
Eight days after Peruvians voted, the country still doesn’t know who will face Keiko Fujimori on June 7. The count has been raided, challenged, and frozen by approximately 6,000 disputed ballot records. The situation is now in the hands of judges — not voters
A Comando Vermelho gun battle trapped 200 tourists on Morro Dois Irmãos this morning. Washington’s designation of Brazil’s most powerful gangs as Foreign Terrorist Organizations is now reported to be imminent
A U.S. government plane landed in Havana for the first time since the Obama-era, and Trump promises “new dawn for Cuba” as new polls show 79% of South Florida's Cubans support military intervention. Here’s the full picture
For years, Venezuelans have lived with blackouts lasting up to 13 hours a day. This weekend, Rodríguez announced GE & Siemens are now in active negotiations to fix Venezuela’s national grid — and turn on the lights for 28 million people
The New York Times published a major investigation — 12 sources inside Venezuela — revealing Delcy Rodríguez is systematically eliminating Maduro’s inner circle with Washington's blessing. Here’s what it means for Miami’s Venezuelan community