Venezuela’s acting president is systematically removing the judges who enforced Nicolás Maduro’s authoritarian rule — replacing them with loyalists of her own. This latest purge is the most significant restructuring of Venezuelan institutional power since the end of Maduro
Colombia’s president is in Caracas — the first foreign leader to visit post-Maduro Venezuela. Border security, energy & most volatile frontier in South America are on the table
A man accused of helping plan the assassination of Senator Miguel Uribe Turbay was arrested in Buenos Aires this week. The suspect is a logistics operative, and the alleged masterminds are a FARC dissident faction operating out of Venezuela with presidential elections 37-days away
Haiti has become the worst humanitarian crisis in the Western Hemisphere. Gangs control its capital. The nation is ungovernable. Foreign forces are on its soil. And yet its national team has qualified for the World Cup for only the second time in history. This is a real story
Miami is the city where Latin America arrives, rebuilds, and puts down roots. It’s also one of the most expensive cities in the U.S. & the gap between what the city costs & what most of its Latino residents earn is getting harder to close
Rising oil prices from the Iran conflict, 900% pipeline tariff hike from Ecuador, a central bank standoff & a May 31 presidential vote — Colombia is entering its most consequential economic moment in years with no easy exits
More than 900 journalists have been forced out of Latin America since 2018. Many end up in Miami. This is the story of the city that became the hemisphere’s unofficial newsroom in exile
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
Argentina’s president used an emergency decree to authorize the entry of U.S. troops and warships for Operation Daga Atlántica & a naval PASSEX exercise — a deepening of the U.S.-Argentina military partnership activated unilaterally
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