U.S. Homeland Security Secretary’s two-day visit to Mexico City was the most significant bilateral security meeting in months — set against CIA agent deaths, drug indictments, and a viral moment nobody planned: Mexico’s Interior Minister’s arrival on motorbike
Workers were shot at roll call. Police were ambushed on a highway. Both attacks happened the same night in northern Honduras — and both, authorities say, have the same root cause
Flávio Bolsonaro spent months denying any connection to the jailed banker at the center of Brazil’s biggest financial scandal in a generation. Then The Intercept Brasil published the audio
Since Sociedad Media’s first report on Bolivia’s crisis, the situation has deteriorated sharply. Emergency vehicles are being blocked from hospitals & the U.S. has called it what Paz’s government has been reluctant to: an attempted coup
U.S. indicts Raúl Castro on Cuban Independence Day at Miami’s Freedom Tower — 30 years in the making. Armed groups launch offensive in Cauca 11 days before presidential vote, while Honduras designates Hamas & Iran’s IRGC as terrorist organizations
On Cuban Independence Day, the DOJ announces criminal charges against the 94-year-old former Cuban president at Miami’s Freedom Tower — the building where generations of Cuban exiles first set foot in America
President Asfura’s decision — made by a leader of Palestinian Christian descent who visited Jerusalem earlier this year — is the latest in a coordinated realignment of Latin America’s conservative governments with Washington & Israel’s counterterrorism framework
A senator’s convoy was ambushed. A mayor was left stranded on the roadside. A soldier was killed a drone attack. All in the same corridor, on the same afternoon. Eleven days before Colombia votes
Alex Saab appeared in a Miami federal court Monday on money laundering charges. Diosdado Cabello — Venezuela’s No. 2 — says he was never Venezuelan. The problem is Chavismo spent years saying otherwise
This Monday’s full Democracy breakdown on the latest stories in Bolivia, Colombia & Peru. Riots, unrest and instability, coups? Upcoming elections & a presidential runoff for Peru’s top job
For the fourth time, Keiko Fujimori is one election away from Peru’s presidency. Her opponent is a former minister under a president who tried to stage a coup and is now in prison. The June 7 vote is a stress test for a country that has cycled through eight presidents in a decade
New poll has Paloma Valencia overtaking Abelardo De la Espriella for second place — and the runoff math against Cepeda has shifted with it. With violence dominating voter concerns and a Washington warning about democratic deterioration, the final stretch begins