El Salvador just made life imprisonment the law of the land. The same country that has arrested more than 91,000, giving the nation the title for the world's highest incarceration rate. The results are real. So are the questions about how they are achieved
Venezuela just put a man named Chávez back in charge of one of America’s largest oil refiners. Whether he actually gets to run it depends on a Treasury Department license that Washington has not yet issued
Chile has its most conservative president since Pinochet. A border barrier is already under construction. Six emergency decrees were signed on day one. And the transition from Boric was so turbulent that Kast walked out of handover talks
Cuba went completely dark on Monday. Every light on the island went out simultaneously—the first total grid collapse since the U.S. oil blockade began. The pots will bang again tonight
Wagner Moura walked into the Dolby Theatre as the first Brazilian ever nominated for Best Actor. He walked out having changed what is possible for Latin American cinema, whatever the envelope revealed
Seven years after Washington walked away from Venezuela, the American flag flies over Caracas again. And the man who helped Maduro hide the money is headed back to a U.S. federal courtroom—for the second time
Brazil banned a Trump adviser for allegedly lying about a prison visit to Bolsonaro. The Lula-Trump summit still has no date. And Washington is playing an increasingly open role in Brazil's October election—whether Brasília likes it or not
Beijing approved $180 million in emergency aid and closed diplomatic ranks with Havana. But Cuba needs oil—and China hasn't committed to replacing Venezuela’s supply
Hundreds of families are wading through floodwater in Tucumán. A congressman got head-butted delivering mattresses on a flooded road. And a province that has not built a dam since 1962 is once again paying the price for decades of deferred infrastructure investment
Washington and Caracas are moving fast—oil deals signed, sanctions eased, diplomats returning. Ordinary Venezuelans are being told to wait. Here’s what the recovery actually looks like from the streets of Caracas
For 47 years, Washington banned Guatemala from buying American weapons. On Monday, that changed—and the announcement signals a new chapter in U.S.-Central America security cooperation
Ecuador’s Noboa attends Chile's most dramatic political shift in 35 years & looks to build a new regional security partnership that could redraw the map of the fight against Latin American drug cartels
